Ryan Carter

Ryan Carter (born 1968) is an American lawyer, politician, former Senate Majority Leader, and current senior Senator from Ohio.
== Early Life and Education ==
Ryan Carter was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1968, to a small business owner and a nurse. Carter performed well in school, and played quarterback on his high school football team. 
Carter attended Harvard University, earning his Juris Doctor, with a minor in political science.
== Pre-Political Career ==
Carter founded a lawfirm upon his graduation, primary serving low-incoming families. Carter gained some notoriety for successfully representing a low-income city block in an eminent domain case. 
== Political Career ==
Carter began his political career with a run for Senate in 2000 as a Republican, and was successfully elected, at thirty-two years of age, the youngest Senator in twenty years. 
Carter would briefly come to chair the Senate's Judiciary Committee and Foreign Relations Committee before being selected as Majority Leader upon the Republican Party's retaking of the Senate Majority in 2014.
Carter would receive some criticism in 2016, after delivering an unexpectedly short speech at the Republican National Convention, and a verbal flub in which he claimed that "modern liberalism is the worst thing out there" as some of their positions "literally applied common sense and facts." Carter would further receive criticism after appearing to endorse Democrat Kyoung-hwan Kim in that years' race for the second United States Senate seat in Ohio in a debate between the two. 
In 2017, Carter would lose re-election to Majority Leader in a party vote to Joanne Winslow.