Candidate, United States House of Representatives, West Virginia, District 1, 2018, 2020

Candidate, United States House of Representatives, West Virginia, District 2, 2016

No caucus information on file.

President, R. Thomas Payne Consultants Limited Liability Company, 2007-2018

Patent Examiner, United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), 2012-2015

Of Counsel, Schmeiser, Olsen and Watts, Limited Liability Partnership, 2008-2011

Of Counsel, Dugan and Dugan Professional Corporation, 2008

Chief Patent Counsel/Intellectual Property Counsel, Cuno Incorporated, a 3M Company, 2003-2007

Partner, Cummings & Lockwood, 1998-2003

Senior Counselor, Hopgood, Calimafde, Kalil & Judlowe, 1995-1998

Transportation Systems Chief Patent Counsel/Patent Counsel, General Electric Company, 1989-1996

Commissioned Officer, United States Army Reserve, 1976-1993

Chief Patent Counsel, Essex Group, Incorporated, 1988-1989

Lawn & Garden Business Patent Counsel, Deere & Company, 1986-1988

Associate, Biebel French and Nauman, 1985-1986

Associate, Kinney and Schenk, 1982-1985

Associate, Fleit and Jacobson, 1981-1982

Supervisor, General Motors, 1976-1981

Commissioned Officer, United States Army, 1971-1976

Board of Governors Member, West Point Society of New York, 1998-2004

Person Most Want to Meet (Dead or Alive):

General Dwight David Eisenhower

Priority Issues:

Answers to Questions Highlighting My Qualifications to Serve as a Member of Congress, from the Second District of West Virginia.

Question 1: Why are you the best candidate?
1. I have established personal contacts/relationships with current members of Congress will best enable me, as opposed to any of my fellow candidates, to facilitate collaboration, establish strategic relationships, and expedite reaching consensus on legislation that will benefit the citizens of West Virginia with members of Congress beyond the West Virginia Congressional delegation on both sides of the aisle. These relationships will be critical both to passing legislation favorable to West Virginians and to attracting new businesses to West Virginia!

2. As a key member of numerous corporate multi-functional teams, I actively participated in the successful negotiation and execution of billion-dollar business transactions in the United States and worldwide that resulted in the manufacture of products in the United States incorporating the licensed technology with the corporate developed innovative technology. My negotiation expertise, business expertise and legal expertise will be critical to attracting new businesses to West Virginia!

3. I have established business and legal credibility that has and will allow me to interface, at least as an equal, with business, governmental, and legal leaders in the United States and worldwide. My established negotiation, business, and legal credibility will be critical to attracting new businesses to West Virginia!

Question 2: What are the key qualities for an effective legislator?

1. The ability to LEAD, including, but not limited to, facilitating collaboration, establishing strategic relationships and expediting reaching consensus on legislation that will benefit the citizens of West Virginia with other members of Congress on both sides of the aisle!

2. The ability to COMPROMISE, including, but not limited to, assisting other members of Congress to enact legislation favorable to their constituents while ensuring that the compromise legislation remains highly favorable to West Virginians!

Question 3: What do you see as the biggest challenge facing West Virginia and the Second Congressional District?

1. IDENTIFY AND ALLOCATE THE RESOURCES NECESSARY TO REDUCE SIGNIFICANTLY THE BROKEN FAMILIES THAT NOW EXIST IN WEST VIRGINIA!

2. BUILD A CRITICAL EDUCATION INFRASTRUCTURE TO TRAIN WEST VIRGINIANS FOR THE TECHNOLOGICAL ORIENTED JOBS OF THE FUTURE!

3. SIMULTANEOUSLY ATTRACT BUSINESSES HAVING HIGH-PAYING JOBS TO LOCATE IN WEST VIRGINIA!

Robert Thomas Payne
November 13, 1945
Martinsburg, West Virginia

Former Corporate Legal and Business Executive (GE); Intellectual Property Law (Expert) Payne and Government Relations Consultant.

Associate of Science, Potomac State College of West Virginia University, Keyser, West Virginia.

Bachelor of Science, General Engineering, the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York

Juris Doctorate, University of Dayton School of Law, Dayton, Ohio

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