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Doug Truax is President and Managing Partner at Veritas Risk Service, a former Captain in the United States Army and Republican Candidate for U.S. Senate seat in Illinois.

Personal Life
Doug Truax is 43, he’s been married to Nicole for 21 years, they have three teen-agers, and live in Downers Grove in Dupage County.

Doug was raised in a small town in the state of New Mexico, located south near the Mexican border. During Truax’s youth, he worked daily in the fields alongside his parents.

Military Service
Doug went to West Point, was active duty Army for six years, he attended Ranger and Airborne school, was a platoon leader and aide to a general, and then left the Army as a Captain. After Doug Truax served the U.S. Army he then went on to executive management at one of the country’s largest commercial insurance brokerage and consulting firms. After over 10 years in Corporate America, Doug went out on his own. He co-founded and is Managing Partner of a very successful employee benefit brokerage and consulting firm that helps companies control their medical insurance costs. He’s been Chairman of the Board of Almost Home Kids in Naperville and Chicago and is Vice Chairman of the Board at CareNet of Dupage, a crisis pregnancy center.

U.S. Senate Campaign
Doug Truax announced his campaign for Illinois’s U.S. Senate seat on July 1st, 2013. Truax gained multiple endorsements throughout his campaign from current and popular political leaders such as Newt Gingrich,and Congressman Aaron Schock.

Truax’s campaign faces Jim Oberweis in the Republican Primary, a 67-year-old business executive who in 2012 won a seat in the Illinois Senate after five failed runs for higher offices.

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