One ad showed him walking through a Janesville cemetery among the gravestones of his ancestors.
The historic Courthouse section of Janesville is still thick with members of the Ryan clan.
Last week, Janesville was in the political spotlight as it never has been before.
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Mitt Romney gave his standard stump speech in Janesville recently, with Ryan at his side.
Mr. Romney's selection on Saturday didn't sway Michael Herman, 31 years old, here in Mr. Ryan's hometown of Janesville.
Next year, I-90 around Janesville will begin expansion from four lanes to eight.
Since the plant closed, Janesville, which sits almost at the center of a ring of major cities, including Milwaukee, Chicago, St.
As Janesville increasingly becomes a base for the business of distribution logistics, its single most pressing economic concern is good roads.
Beckord explained that it would soon house the Janesville Innovation Center, providing entrepreneurs with commercial space in which to launch their ideas.
Janesville has often served as a backdrop for Presidents and Presidential candidates.
His mother was in Colorado visiting his sister, and his brother, who had a summer job with the Janesville parks department, had left early.
Janesville is a major distribution center for John Deere lawn-care products.
Several other national companies, including Grainger, which sells various industrial products, and LeMans, which sells parts for motocross and snowmobiling equipment, use Janesville for the same purpose.
Janesville, Wisconsin, where Ryan was born and still lives, is a riverfront city of sixty-four thousand people in the southeast corner of the state, between Madison and Chicago.
This failure by President Obama is manifested partly in the fact that nothing has happened to renew the Janesville plant as candidate Obama had, in a way, promised.
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Janesville figured out how to make fountain pens portable.
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The GOP vice presidential candidate specifically blamed President Obama for not coming through on what seemed like a campaign promise in 2008 to keep the General Motors assembly plant in Janesville, Wis.
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