Tim Ryan

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Tim Ryan (2013)

Timothy John "Tim" Ryan (born July 16, 1973 in Niles , Ohio ) is an American politician of the Democratic Party . Since 2003 he has served in the United States House of Representatives for the city of Youngstown and the northeastern Ohio area. In 2016 he applied for the office of parliamentary group leader of his party in the House of Representatives (minority leader) and in 2019 for the nomination of the Democrats for the 2020 presidential election .

Family, education and work

Tim Ryan was born in Niles, Trumbull County . He graduated from John F. Kennedy High School in Warren and studied political science at Bowling Green State University and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts . He graduated from the University of New Hampshire in 2000 with a Juris Doctor . During his student days, he served on the staff of Congressman James Traficant in the mid-1990s .

Ryan is married and lives in Howland, Ohio with his wife and three children.

Political career

Ryan served in the Ohio Senate from 2001 to 2002 . In 2000 he won the Democratic primary and then the main election in the 32nd Senate constituency of Ohio, which spanned the northern districts of Youngstown.

In the 2002 election , Ryan was elected to the US House of Representatives as representative of Ohio's 17th  Congressional constituency. There he succeeded James Traficants on January 3, 2003 and has been re-elected since then. After redistricting the constituencies, the previous 17th electoral district was geographically largely transferred to the new 13th constituency in the 2012 election , which continues to encompass part of the northeast of the state from Youngstown to Akron . Since January 2013 Ryan has therefore represented the 13th congressional electoral district, which is severely affected by the structural change in the Rust Belt ; between 2001 and 2013 almost 19,000 industrial jobs were lost there.

Ryan is or was a member of the Grants Committee , the Budget Committee and two sub-committees. He is also a member of several Congressional Caucuses . He was previously a member of the Armed Forces Committee .

After the lost elections in 2016 , Ryan challenged Nancy Pelosi in a fight for the parliamentary group chairmanship in the House of Representatives (House Minority Leader), but lost 63-134 votes in the vote on November 30, 2016. He is considered an emerging talent in his party and has been named as a possible candidate for the 2018 gubernatorial election .

In the summer of 2018, Ryan was making concrete preparations to run for the 2020 presidential election in the United States , according to The Intercept website . He wants to win back voters in the Midwest for the Democrats . In April 2019, Ryan announced his candidacy in his party's primary election for the 2020 presidential election. In the field of more than twenty applicants, he advocates a centrist, business-friendly course with which he hopes to win the disappointed residents of the Rust Belt, who have been lost to Donald Trump , for the Democrats. In aggregated polls, Ryan never got above one percent of the pre-election vote by mid-October 2019, and after participating in the first two candidate debates in the summer, he failed to reach the qualifying poll and fundraising results for the further debates. On October 24, 2019, he announced his withdrawal from the presidential candidacy. He is applying again for his congress mandate in the 2020 election .

Web links

Commons : Tim Ryan  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ryan, Tim. In: Our Campaigns.
  2. ↑ Ryan Grim, Zaid Jilani: Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan Is Telling People He Will Run for President in 2020, Hoping to Win “Yoga Vote”. In: The Intercept , July 23, 2018. See the maps of the former 17th and today's 13th district for spatial classification .
  3. ^ Paul Kane, Ed O'Keefe: Nancy Pelosi chosen again as House Democratic leader - but tally suggests deep division. In: The Washington Post , November 30, 2018.
  4. ↑ Kyle Swenson: Tim Ryan's Rust Belt Reboot. In: The New Republic , November 28, 2016.
  5. ↑ Ryan Grim, Zaid Jilani: Ohio Democratic Rep. Tim Ryan Is Telling People He Will Run for President in 2020, Hoping to Win “Yoga Vote”. In: The Intercept , July 23, 2018.
  6. ^ Ali Vitali: Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan throws his name into growing 2020 field. In: NBC News , April 4, 2019.
  7. ↑ Kate Ackley: Tim Ryan misses the next presidential debate, but has a backup plan. In: Roll Call , August 29, 2019; RCP Poll Average: 2020 Democratic Presidential Nomination. In: Real Clear Politics ; Jessica Taylor: Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan Ends Bid For Democratic Presidential Nomination. In: National Public Radio , October 24, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Ryan, Tim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ryan, Timothy John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician (Democratic Party)
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Niles , Ohio