The legacy of Travis Offenberger, nominee for the Vice President of the NeoWhig party and world-renowned big game hunter, begins in what his parents still call the "old world." As a child, he was regaled with stories of his father's service to the Kaiser and happy go lucky lifestyle in Düsseldorf. His mother led an equally impressive life, and served as a prostitute in the German Army on the Russian front. She would proudly tell her son how she was decorated for valor on the battlefield no less than five times. It was fate that brought the two lovers together, and after being indicted (but not convicted!) of war crimes in the fall of 1946, the pair immigrated to America.

Once nestled within the bosom of the mid-Ohio valley, the pair made a life for themselves selling nuclear secrets to the highest bidder and tending the earth on their sausage farm. In those heady days of prosperity, the couple could think of nothing other than starting a family, though try as they might they remained childless for many years. It was not until a set of circumstances involving a tractor pull contest, a few kind fords from former President Lyndon Johnson and a drunken New Years Eve grope fest in the back seat of a 1966 Chevelle changed everything. Their first and only child, Travis J. Offenberger was born on September 30, 1972 in Parkersburg, West Virginia.

Travis' early records are sealed by court order, but if asked he will tell of a childhood that consisted mostly of school in the winter and long hours on the farm in the summer. At the age of seven he stunned the agricultural community by cross breeding a bratwurst with a wienerschnitzel giving birth to the world's first WeinerWurst™. While the Nobel committee applauded his efforts, word of condemnation from the Vatican labeled the young farmer a "heretic" and his creation a "crime against nature."

Later in life Offenberger would attend Ohio University in Athens, Ohio earning doctorates in both Psychology and Parapsychology. In 1994 he entered the record books as the first man to break all Ten Commandments in all fifty states in fifty days. Although the June 2-3 Missouri/Kansas cross border murder/idolatry spree casts a pall over the record, Offenberger remains proud of his accomplishment.

After college, Travis held a number of jobs, among them VP of Sporadic Enterprises, a Macon Georgia based greeting card and Inter Uterine Device (IUD) manufacturer. He also played second base for the Durham Bulls from 1994-1997 and draw up articles of impeachment against corrupt Montana Senator Kip "Backscratcher" Hoolihey. It was during these proceeding that Travis got the politics bug, and began to look for the party that fit his needs and lifestyle. It was during a misspelled Google search on the word
"Diverticulitis" that Offenberger came across the NeoWhig web site, and he became immediately intrigued with their platform.

It was a match made in heaven.