Paul Broun

(Editor’s note: This is one of a series of articles in the months to come on Democrat and Republican candidates for Congressional office.) Dr. Paul Broun, M.D. is hoping to return to the U.S. Congress. He was first elected in a special election in 2007 and was re-elected in 2008 – serving two more terms until 2014 when he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Saxby Chambliss. Broun was the first to announce his candidacy after current U.S. Rep. Jody Hice announced that he would not seek re-election but would be running to become Georgia’s next Secretary of State.

Former U.S. Representative Paul Broun is eyeing Congressman Jody Hice’s District 10 seat. Broun, who once held the seat for eight years from 2007 to 2015, officially announced his intention to run for the seat again last week. Broun lost the seat to Hice, but is hoping to represent Georgia’s Congressional 10th District once again. Hice will vacate the seat at the end of his term in 2022 to run for Georgia Secretary of State.

Dr. Paul Broun, a physician and former congressman, will run in 2022 to represent Georgia’s 10th District in the U.S. House of Representatives, according to a Wednesday press release from his office. Rep. Jody Hice, who currently holds the seat, announced last week that he will run for the seat...

Former congressman Paul Broun is angling to get his old seat back now that his successor, Rep. Jody Hice, is running for secretary of state. Broun, an Oconee County physician, served as Athens’ congressman from 2007 through 2014. He came out of nowhere to win a special election in which, lacking a Democrat in the runoff, most Athens voters supported him because his opponent had stated that he wanted to bomb Athens except for the football team.

Former Rep. Paul Broun announced his intention to once again run for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. Broun on Wednesday announced his congressional campaign for District 10, a seat he previously held for eight years, from 2007 to 2015 and was superseded by current representative Rep. Jody Hice.

ATHENS — Dr. Paul Broun, M.D. will run to succeed Rep. Jody Hice in Georgia’s 10th District seat in Congress. Hice announced on Mar. 22 he will challenge fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger for Secretary of State in 2022. The 10th District covers all or parts of 24 counties from Atlanta...