Claude William Chappell IV was born and raised in the eastern suburbs of Portland, Oregon. Fairview, Wood Village, Gresham, and then Sandy. He moved to McMinnville in 2006. He is a product of both the public school system and Seventh-day Adventist parochial school. Following graduation from high school and a short stint at Mt. Hood Community College, William enlisted in the US Army, studying and then practicing laboratory medicine for two years at the 2nd General Hospital in Landstuhl, Germany.

In 1996 William received an honorable discharge from the military and began studying at Walla Walla College in southeast Washington. There he received a Bachelors of Arts degree in Speech Communication, minor in Chemistry with a concentration in Pre-Medicine. Though medicine was his goal, he began to understand that medicine was no longer the domain of freedom and innovation. Entrepreneurial doctors, once free to decide how best to honor their Hippocratic Oath, were becoming more controlled by bureaucracy, HMO’s, and government regulations. William chose to utilize his military training in Pathology and simultaneously travel the country meeting, experience, and learning from Americans in all walks of life.

William has spent the last seven years discovering the hopes and dreams of Americans from coast to coast; understanding the country in which Americans want to live; and valuing the diversity in creeds, beliefs, and ideas of every person that has touched his life.

William believes that he is singularly in touch with the unique political desires of Oregon and Oregon’s 1st district, and he is especially qualified to relate those needs to the United States Congress within the context of the hopes and dreams of the rest of the country.

William was raised in a very conservative household, politically, religiously, and economically. He was raised to value individual responsibility and personal accountability. He was raised to believe that the Constitution is the greatest political document ever written.

The Republican Party once championed those values. They were once the party of smaller government, fiscal responsibility, a humble foreign policy, and the absolute affirmation of individual liberties. Today in the mire of terrorists threats and knee-jerk reactionary foreign policy Republicans have lost their way and are losing the country. Following the inspirational message of the Ron Paul presidential campaign, William aspires to join a coalition of like-minded US Representatives in restoring the dream of the US constitutional republic.