{"biography":"## Current office and 2026 campaign\nVivek Ramaswamy is the 2026 Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio. He announced his campaign on February 24, 2025, receiving Donald Trump's endorsement the same day, and won the Republican primary on May 5, 2026, with more than 80% of the vote against Heather Hill and Casey Putsch [1][2][3]. He faces Democratic nominee Amy Acton, Ohio's former state health director during the COVID-19 pandemic, in the November 2026 general election, which had not yet been decided as of this writing [1]. The Ohio campaign followed his brief tenure, alongside Elon Musk, as co-leader of the incoming Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE); Ramaswamy departed that role on Inauguration Day, January 20, 2025, saying that pursuing the governor's race and running DOGE were \"not compatible\" [4].\n\nHis only prior appearance on a Tennessee ballot was as a 2024 Republican presidential candidate. He entered as the youngest candidate in the Republican field, running on downsizing the federal government and eliminating what he called \"woke\" ideology from public and corporate life [5]. He suspended his campaign on the night of January 15, 2024, after finishing fourth in the Iowa caucuses, endorsing Donald Trump that night [5][6]. Tennessee's ballot had already been certified before he withdrew, so his name remained on the March 5, 2024 primary ballot alongside Trump, the eventual winner [7].\n\n## Background and education\nVivek Ganapathy Ramaswamy was born August 9, 1985, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Tamil parents who had immigrated from Kerala, India; his father worked as an engineer at General Electric and his mother as a geriatric psychiatrist [8]. He was valedictorian of St. Xavier High School in Cincinnati (2003), earned a B.A. in biology from Harvard College in 2007 (summa cum laude), and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2013 [8].\n\n## Career\nRamaswamy founded the biopharmaceutical company Roivant Sciences in 2014 and served as its CEO until January 2021 [8]. He co-founded Strive Asset Management, an anti-ESG index-fund firm, in early 2022 and resigned in February 2023 [8].\n\n## Business interests and wealth source\nForbes estimated Ramaswamy's net worth at $2.9 billion as of June 2026, built primarily on his stakes in Roivant Sciences and Strive Asset Management [8].\n\n## Family\nRamaswamy married Apoorva Tewari, a laryngologist, in 2015; they met at Yale, where he was in law school and she was in medical school. They have three children [8].\n\n## Sources\n[1] [Vivek Ramaswamy wins GOP nomination for governor in Ohio - NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/vivek-ramaswamy-wins-gop-primary-governor-ohio-amy-acton-rcna343048) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[2] [Vivek Ramaswamy Wins Ohio's Republican Gubernatorial Primary - Forbes](https://www.forbes.com/sites/saradorn/2026/05/05/vivek-ramaswamy-wins-ohios-republican-gubernatorial-primary/) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[3] [Vivek Ramaswamy announces 2026 bid for Ohio governor - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2025/02/24/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-2026-bid-ohio-governor/index.html) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[4] [Ramaswamy to leave DOGE to launch bid for Ohio governor - Axios](https://www.axios.com/2025/01/20/vivek-ramaswamy-leaving-doge-ohio-governor) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[5] [Vivek Ramaswamy suspends campaign and endorses Trump - NPR](https://www.npr.org/2024/01/15/1224751138/vivek-ramaswamy-suspends-campaign-and-endorses-trump) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[6] [Vivek Ramaswamy suspends presidential campaign - CNN](https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/15/politics/vivek-ramaswamy-ends-presidential-campaign/index.html) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[7] [2024 Tennessee Republican presidential primary - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Tennessee_Republican_presidential_primary) - accessed 2026-07-06\n[8] [Vivek Ramaswamy - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivek_Ramaswamy) - accessed 2026-07-06","campaigns":[{"contest":"president","county":"Shelby","county_count":1,"electiondate":"Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT","pgr":"primary","state":"TN","title":"President"}],"cf_filings":[],"firstname":"Vivek","fullname":"Vivek Ramaswamy","lastname":"Ramaswamy","office_history":[{"campaigns":[{"contest":"president","contest_title":"President","county":"Shelby","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2024-03-05","office_county":null,"office_key":"president","office_title":"President","party":"R","pgr":"primary","state":"TN"}],"county":null,"cycles":[{"general":null,"party":"R","primary":{"contest":"president","contest_title":"President","county":"Shelby","county_count":1,"electiondate":"2024-03-05","office_county":null,"office_key":"president","office_title":"President","party":"R","pgr":"primary","state":"TN"},"term":null,"year":2024}],"office_key":"president","office_title":"President","state":"TN","terms":[]}],"summary":"2026 Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio; previously withdrew from the 2024 Republican presidential race before Tennessee's primary and briefly co-led DOGE.","terms":[],"token":"BtuppwDhao"}