Meet the Candidate
Veteran. Entrepreneur. Trail Walker. Progressive. Not running to join the club — running to challenge it.
Pat Wilver is a West Point graduate, an Army veteran, a small business owner, and an adventurer who walked the length of our great nation on the Pacific Crest Trail. These experiences have taken Pat across the nation and across the world, and deepened his belief that the founding promise of a more perfect union is worth fighting for.
Traditional politics have failed working families. Pat is running to change that.
West Point.
Army. Honor.
The Honor Code wasn't just a rule. It became a way of life.
Pat graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point where the standard isn't just academic, it's moral. The Cadet Honor Code is a life-long obligation: don't be dishonest, and don't tolerate dishonesty in others either.
"A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do."
— West Point Cadet Honor CodeHe served as an Army officer at Fort Stewart and deployed abroad to South Korea and Africa, working alongside allies and seeing firsthand the real cost of American foreign policy decisions — made in Washington, carried by soldiers far from home.
His time in uniform left him with a conviction that still guides everything: power must be restrained, institutions must be protected, and leaders must be accountable. Not as slogans. As obligations.
Entrepreneur.
Coastal Georgia.
He's signed the front of paychecks. That changes how you see everything.
After leaving the Army, Pat built businesses in coastal Georgia. He has managed properties, renovated homes, hired and trained employees, and navigated the maze of taxes and regulation that small business owners face every day.
He understands markets. He also understands their limits. Free enterprise works best when it serves working people — not when it's captured by monopolies, lobbyists, and billionaires who write the rules for themselves.
2,650 Miles.
On Foot.
Months alone in the wilderness has a way of sharpening what matters.
Pat completed a thru-hike of the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail — Mexico to Canada, through California, Oregon, and Washington. Months on foot, through desert and snowpack and high Sierra granite.
It deepened something that was already there: a belief that America's public lands are sacred inheritance. Not assets to be liquidated. Not a negotiating chip for budget deals. Land that belongs to everyone, kept in trust for generations not yet born.
Coastal Georgia is facing real environmental pressure — overdevelopment, wetland degradation, increased flooding, water quality threats. Pat believes economic growth and environmental stewardship are not enemies. But corruption and short-term greed threaten both — and that's what he intends to fight.
Why He's
Running.
Not to build a political career. To challenge a system that's stopped working for regular people.
Pat believes both political parties have lost sight of who government is supposed to serve. Most Americans — Republicans, Democrats, and independents alike — know the system is broken. They see a political class funded by corporate interests while working families struggle with housing costs, healthcare bills, and stagnant wages.
He's running because he believes Congress must reclaim its constitutional authority, money must be removed from its corrupting role in politics, and working families deserve a government that actually fights for them.
War powers, emergency powers, the constitutional balance — all of it has eroded. That ends.
Removing corporate money from politics, adding term limits, and ending gerrymandering are top priorities.
Healthcare, housing, wages — not abstractions. The things that make a life stable or unstable.
He lives here. He works here. This district's voice goes to someone who answers to the people in it.
A Lifetime
of Service.
Experience that can't be bought or manufactured.
West Point
Graduated and commissioned as an Army officer. Committed to the Cadet Honor Code as a way of life, not just a rule.
Army Service
Served as an Army officer stateside and abroad. Graduated from U.S. Army Ranger School, demonstrating tenacity and grit. Witnessed firsthand the stakes of American leadership and the cost of unchecked executive power.
Entrepreneurship
Built businesses along the Georgia coast — managing properties, renovating homes, hiring and training employees. Signed the front of paychecks.
Pacific Crest Trail
Completed a full thru-hike of the PCT. Deepened his conviction that public lands, clean water, and environmental stewardship are not political — they're obligations.
2026
Launching a people-powered campaign for Georgia's 1st District. Reclaim. Restore. Rebuild.
Pat can't do this alone. If you believe Georgia deserves a representative who answers to voters, not party leadership or billionaires — then this is your campaign too.