Ted Budd

Ted Budd interests me as a politician who arrived with a businessman's instincts rather than a lifelong insider's. Coming out of Winston-Salem and Appalachian State, he ran a company before moving from the House to the United States Senate in 2023. I will leave the policy debates to others, but I do find the businessman-to-legislator path worth noting: it tends to produce people who think in numbers and outcomes, for better or worse. Whatever one makes of his Republican positions, the deliberate, ground-up climb from enterprise to national office is a distinct and revealing kind of career.

Name (English)

Ted Budd

Name (Japanese)

テッド・バッド

Reading

てっど・ばっど

Born

October 21, 1971 (age 54)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Boar

Origin

Winston-Salem, North Carolina, United States

Occupation

politician / business executive

High school

Davie County High School

University

Appalachian State University

• Official sitehttps://tedbudd.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/sentedbudd/
• Xhttps://x.com/RepTedBudd
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted%20Budd
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27733792

Tags

• North Carolina
• politician
• business executive

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.