Rand Paul
Rand Paul | |
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Official portrait, c. 2023–2025 | |
| Chair of the Senate Homeland Security Committee | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Gary Peters |
| Ranking Member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee | |
| In office January 3, 2023 – January 3, 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Rob Portman |
| Succeeded by | Gary Peters |
| Ranking Member of the Senate Small Business Committee | |
| In office February 3, 2021 – January 3, 2023 | |
| Preceded by | Ben Cardin |
| Succeeded by | Joni Ernst |
| United States Senator from Kentucky | |
| Assumed office January 3, 2011 | |
| Preceded by | Jim Bunning |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Randal Howard Paul January 7, 1963 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 3 |
| Relatives | Ron Paul (father) |
| Education | Baylor University Duke University (MD) |
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| Website | Senate website |
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U.S. Senator from Kentucky
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Randal Howard Paul (born January 7, 1963) is an American politician and ophthalmologist serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky since 2011.
A member of the Republican Party, he has described himself as a constitutional conservative and a supporter of the Tea Party movement. His libertarian views have been compared to those of his father, three-time presidential candidate and 12-term U.S. representative from Texas, Ron Paul. Paul attended Baylor University and is a graduate of the Duke University School of Medicine. He was a practicing ophthalmologist in Bowling Green, Kentucky, from 1993 until his election to the U.S. Senate in 2010. He was re-elected in 2016 and won a third term in 2022. Paul was a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.