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Ronny

Jackson

Republican
TX
-13
Amarillo, Wichita Falls, Gainesville
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Personal Background

Birthdate

5/4/1967 (53)

Race/Ethnicity

Caucasian/White

Gender Identification

M
Twitter

@RonnyJackson4TX

Religion

No Religion Listed

Family

Married, 3 children

ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE

B.S. in Marine Biology, Texas A&M University; M.D., University of Texas Medical Branch

KEY HEALTH LINK

Jackson is a board-certified emergency medicine physician and began his medical career in the Navy. In 2006, Jackson was selected as a White House physician, where he served Presidents Bush, Obama and Trump. He has held faculty clinical appointments with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences and the Beth Israel Deaconess Disaster Medicine Fellowship Program.

Political/Professional Background

LEGISLATIVE EXPERIENCE

Chief Medical Advisor to the President, 2019; Physician to the President, 2013-2018; Physician at the White House, 2006-2013

2020 ELECTION CONTEXT

Eight days after his retirement from the Navy, Jackson filed to run for Congress in the Texas 13th District. Jackson finished in second place in the primary election behind former lobbyist Josh Winegarner. In the July 2020 runoff, Jackson won the nomination with 55.6% of votes.

INCUMBENT REPLACED

Mac Thornberry (R), retired

MOST RECENT PROFESSION

Chief Medical Advisor to the President of the United States

POLITICAL BIOGRAPHY

Jackson served in the Navy as as the White House physician. On March 28, 2018, President Trump announced that he planned to replace David Shulkin with Ronny Jackson as secretary of Veterans Affairs. One month later, the U.S. Senate Committee on Veterans’ Affairs postponed a hearing on his nomination after current and former employees on the White House medical staff accused Jackson of creating a hostile work environment. Jackson withdrew from consideration.

On The Issues

COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Jackson opposes mask mandates to slow the spread of COVID-19, calling mask wearing a "personal choice."

HEALTH COVERAGE

In Congress, Jackson aims to "eliminate the monopolies in health care, continue to promote transparency in billing... and protect Americans from the liberal agenda and the socialist health care plans of the left."

MARIJUANA

No Info

MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION

No Info

PRESCRIPTION DRUGS

In May 2020, Jackson announced a plan to redirect all American pharmaceutical manufacturing in China back to the U.S., with substantial production based in the Texas 13th district. Jackson supports reform to pharmaceutical pricing, with no specific policies endorsed.

VETERANS HEALTH CARE

Jackson was nominated by President Trump to be Secretary of the VA but withdrew after allocations that he created a hostile work environment.

WOMEN’S HEALTH

Jackson considers himself "staunchly pro-life." He supports the defunding of Planned Parenthood and all abortion providers in the U.S.

OTHER HEALTH CARE ISSUES

Jackson supports withdrawing the U.S. from the World Health Organization.

DID YOU KNOW?

Jackson landed his first job at age 13, when he began working after school at the Wallace Theater in Levelland, TX.