William "B.J." Lawson is a husband, father of three and concerned citizen with a background in engineering, medicine, business and entrepreneurship.

After graduating from Lakeland Senior High School in Florida, B.J. came to North Carolina in 1992 to study engineering and then medicine at Duke University. His high-school sweetheart, now wife, JoLynn attended Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina, which made Duke's engineering even more attractive.

JoLynn and B.J. married after college graduation, where she taught elementary school in Durham while BJ started medical school. After receiving his medical degree in 2000, Dr. Lawson then started neurosurgery residency at Duke University.

Despite a strong calling to medicine, B.J. recognized opportunity to address a fundamental inefficiency in our healthcare system: to take care of patients, all physicians need timely and portable access to patient information and in 2001 started Durham-based, MercuryMD.

Like many Americans, throughout his experience creating a company, and taking a risk, BJ began to ask specific questions regarding our economic system and the role of the government in the economy.   The more his company created and prospered, the more government seemed to get in the way and the more concerned he became for our nation and most importantly our children.

"Taking the risk to start and grow a company was an amazing education, and my immersion in the world of raising money, growing teams, and serving customers led me to study the broader problems facing our society outside of technology and healthcare."

Lawson is running on the same core theme of Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty -- and campaign slogan of Less Taxes, Smaller Government and More Freedom!

B.J. believes that those conservative principles are being embraced nationwide by Americans who are waking up to runaway government spending, oppressive taxation, and overly restrictive regulation.

He firmly believes the greatest thing about being an American is that we have a principled foundation that respects the individual based upon our founding documents — the Declaration of Independence and Constitution.

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