On his campaign trail throughout the state, Senate candidate and Rep. Tim Ryan (D) of Ohio’s 13th Congressional District made a few stops in Adams County on Sept. 1 to converse with locals.

Ohio’s 13th Congressional District is in northern Ohio and includes Akron, Warren, Youngstown and parts of Alliance, Ohio.

Ryan, 48, was born July 16, 1973, in Niles, Ohio, and currently resides in Howland, Ohio, with his wife Andrea and their three children.

Prior to his election into public office in 2002, Ryan served as president of Trumbull County Young Democrats and as chairman of the Earning by Learning Program in Warren, Ohio. He began his career in politics in 1995 as a congressional aide with the U.S. House of Representatives. Later, Ryan served as an intern for the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office.

Ryan holds a law degree from the University of New Hampshire School of Law and studied abroad in Florence, Italy, as part of the Dickinson School of Law’s International Law Program. He graduated from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science.

Since his election to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2002, Ryan has been reelected nine times and is currently serving his tenth term. He is a member of the House Appropriations Committee, which controls the expenditure of money by the federal government. Ryan also serves as co-chairman of the Congressional Manufacturing Caucus, which examines and promotes policies to help American manufacturers find trained, educated workers, continue to lead the world in developing new industrial technologies, operate on a level playing field with their foreign competitors and obtain the capital they need to thrive