Richard St. Paul has been White House intern, city council member, and mayoral candidate
At age 12, Richard St. Paul was in social studies class wondering how he could make the world a better place. “Something told me, ‘Become an elected official,’” he recalls. At home, he leafed through World Book Encyclopedia to a section on members of U.S. Congress and the inspiration took. A decade later, he was a White House intern.
“That was pretty awesome,” says St. Paul about his days at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. “I most remember the clocks in the Situation Room, which were all set to Middle Eastern time to highlight where our chief conflict concerns were.”
His two passions—law and politics—kept intersecting. That section on Congress in World Book Encyclopedia? “I noticed most of them went to law school,” he says. “So I realized I needed to go to law school first.”
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