Will Congressman Tim Ryan join James Garfield in going directly from U.S. House Representative from Ohio to President of the United States? Will he run or is he running?

At my invitation, he included a class visit to an undergraduate business course in Durham, New Hampshire. Rep. Ryan's law degree is from what is now the university's law school (located in Concord, and named for President Franklin Pierce when he attended). He was last in state this past spring, serving as commencement speaker at the law school's graduation exercises. 

Before going off the record for student conversations, we talked topics in corporate, government, and personal $ broadly.

• Recruiting businesses to the area - keeping GM, wooing Amazon
• Infrastructure
• the stakeholders, not just shareholders, of a company ("B Corps")
• Taxes
• Serving on a committee on something that doesn’t exist - the federal budget
• China
• Spending and debt
• Personal savings & money for an emergency...and boat and vacation home
• Homemade pizza
• Mindfulness & meditation by a former college football player, toward success

Tim Ryan succeeded James Traficant to Congress in 2003. Traficant went to prison for tax evasion and corruption related charges and lost a comeback bid. Ryan made a leadership challenge to Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in 2016, which he did not renew for the 116th Congress convening this year.

He's "looking at getting in" to the 2020 Democratic presidential primary.