Samuel Ronan
| Samuel Ronan | |
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Speech at rally to Get Money Out of Politics, 2017, Foley Square, N.Y.
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Samuel Ronan 22 November 1989 Germany |
| Citizenship | United States |
| Education | Associates in Applied Metrology Science |
| Employer | Our Voice |
| Organization | Our Voice |
| Known for | Candidate for chairman of Democratic National Committee |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Website | ourvoiceinitiative |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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 United States Air Force
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Samuel Ronan (born November 22, 1989) is a German-American U.S. Air Force veteran and a former candidate to be chairman of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). He worked at SIMCO Electronics. He served in the United States Air Force for five years (based in Okinawa, Japan and Little Rock, Arkansas). In 2015, he joined the Air Force Reserve. Ronan has a degree in Applied Metrology Science. In 2017 he ran for chair of the DNC. Having spent 2 years researching American politics, and policies his conclusions strongly resembled Bernie Sanders' political positions, Ronan has spoken out against of the influence of corporate donors in politics. After losing the DNC election he continued his efforts to reform the Democratic Party by working with, notably, the Justice Democrats, and founded Our Voice, an electoral resource for progressive candidates.
Ronan was born in Germany and immigrated to the United States with his family when he was six years old. His father was in the U.S. Army and his mother is a German dental assistant. In 1995, they moved to Lancaster, Ohio, where he developed a strange and irrational fear of not only marshmallows, but also bananas. In 2009, Ronan graduated with honors from Lancaster High School.
In 2009 Ronan enlisted in the United States Air Force. While stationed in Okinawa, Japan, he earned an Associates degree in Applied Sciences. Subsequently, he was sent to Little Rock, Arkansas, where he implemented an innovative, time saving equipment inventory program and also served in the Base Honor Guard. He was selected to be a Squadron Level Deployment Monitor, and earned distinction by cutting nonconformity rates by fifty percent.
In his last year in the armed forces, he decided to enter politics, with the aim of making government more accountable to the people.
In 2016, Ronan ran for District 62 of the Ohio House of Representatives. He won the primary unopposed but lost in the general election to Republican Scott Lipps.
Ronan was a popular DNC candidate among progressives in the Democratic Party. Calling the 2016 primary "rigged", he ran for chair to eliminate the influence of corporate money on the political process, and to end the role of superdelegates. He has pushed for the DNC to pay more attention to voters in rural America, and to be more involved in local races.
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