About the Author

Ron Paul, M.D., founder of FREE, Inc., was born in Pittsburgh in 1935. He is a graduate of Gettysburg College and Duke University School of Medicine.

Dr. Paul studied internal medicine at Detroit’s Henry Ford Hospital and obstetrics and gynecology at the University of Pittsburgh. He also served as a flight surgeon in the U.S. Air Force and the Air National Guard.

Congressman Paul and his wife Carol have five children. They make their home in Lake Jackson, Texas, where the Congressman had a private medical practice.

Convinced that the size, power, and cost of the Federal government had to be cut—for our free society to survive—Dr. Paul ran for election to the House of Representatives. He has served in the 94th, 96th and 97th Congress.

A member of the House Banking Committee and three of its subcommittees, Dr. Paul has put special emphasis on instituting a sound, gold-redeemable dollar. He is Ranking Republican on the General Oversite Subcommittee, and a member of the U.S. Gold Policy Commission.

Congressman Paul’s work in cutting spending and taxes won him the highest rating ever given by the National Taxpayers Union, which named him “The Taxpayers’ Best Friend in Congress.” The Council for a Competitive Economy also gave him its top rating in Congress, for voting in favor of the free market. The American Economic Council gave Dr. Paul its Liberty Award, for being “America’s outstanding defender of economic and personal freedom.”