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Paul Davis Ryan (born January 29, 1970) is the 54th and current Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Ryan is a member of the Republican Party who has served as the U.S. Representative for since 1999 and as House Ways and Means Committee Chairman since January 2015. Ryan previously served as Chairman of the House Budget Committee from 2011 to 2015. He was the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, running alongside Governor Mitt Romney in the 2012 election.〔〔 Ryan, together with Democratic Senator Patty Murray, negotiated the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2013.〔〔〔 On October 29, 2015, Ryan was elected to replace John Boehner as Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, and named John David Hoppe as his Chief of Staff. He is the first person from Wisconsin to hold this position.〔(Paul Ryan becomes Wisconsin's first speaker of the House )〕 ==Early life and education== Ryan was born in Janesville, Wisconsin, the youngest of four children of Elizabeth A. "Betty" (née Hutter) and Paul Murray Ryan, a lawyer.〔〔〔 A fifth-generation Wisconsinite, his father was of Irish ancestry and his mother is of German and English ancestry.〔 One of Ryan's paternal ancestors settled in Wisconsin prior to the Civil War.〔 His great-grandfather, Patrick William Ryan (1858–1917), founded an earthmoving company in 1884, which later became P. W. Ryan and Sons and is now known as Ryan Incorporated Central.〔〔 Ryan's grandfather, Stanley M. Ryan, was appointed U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin.〔 Ryan attended St. Mary's Catholic School in Janesville, where he played on the seventh-grade basketball team.〔 He attended Joseph A. Craig High School in Janesville, where he was elected president of his junior class, and thus became prom king.〔 As class president Ryan was a representative of the student body on the school board.〔 Following his second year, Ryan took a job working the grill at McDonald's.〔 He was on his high school's ski, track and varsity soccer teams and played basketball in a Catholic recreational league.〔〔〔 He also participated in several academic and social clubs including the Model United Nations.〔〔 Ryan and his family often went on hiking and skiing trips to the Colorado Rocky Mountains.〔〔 When he was 16, Ryan found his 55-year-old father lying dead in bed of a heart attack.〔〔 Following the death of his father, Ryan's grandmother moved in with the family, and because she had Alzheimer's, Ryan helped care for her while his mother commuted to college in Madison, Wisconsin.〔 After his father's death, Ryan received Social Security survivors benefits until his 18th birthday, which were saved for his college education.〔〔〔 Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and political science from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio,〔 where he became interested in the writings of Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, and Milton Friedman.〔 He often visited the office of libertarian professor Richard Hart to discuss the theories of these economists and of Ayn Rand.〔〔 Hart introduced Ryan to ''National Review'',〔 and with Hart's recommendation Ryan began an internship in the D.C. office of Wisconsin Senator Bob Kasten where he worked with Kasten's foreign affairs adviser.〔〔 Ryan also attended the Washington Semester program at American University.〔 Ryan worked summers as a salesman for Oscar Mayer and once got to drive the Wienermobile.〔〔〔 During college, Ryan was a member of the College Republicans,〔 and volunteered for the congressional campaign of John Boehner.〔 He was a member of the Delta Tau Delta social fraternity.〔 Ryan received a Bachelor of Arts in 1992 with a double major in economics and political science.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paul Ryan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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