“There are a lot of young kids serving in Washington, D.C.: kids that are smart, hard-working, but they've never farmed. They've never run a business. They've never been in the private sector. They went from high school into college and right into Washington, D.C.”

American businessman and politician

Ronald Harold Johnson is an American businessman and politician. Born in 1955, he has served as the senior United States senator from Wisconsin since 2011. A Republican, he first won election to the Senate in 2010, defeating incumbent Democrat Russ Feingold. Johnson had led a plastics manufacturing company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, before entering politics. He later won rematches against Feingold in 2016 and against Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes in 2022, extending his long tenure in the Senate.