Although his family has their ancestral roots in West Virginia, Pat McGeehan was raised throughout his youth on military bases around the world.

Shortly afterwards, Pat and his mother, along with his two younger brothers, moved to their native home in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia.

From 1994 to 1998, Pat attended Oak Glen High School in New Cumberland, WV, and subsequently gained an appointment to the US Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.

[5] In 2012 he released a book entitled Printing Our Way to Poverty: The Consequences of American Inflation, which received strong praise from Congressman and former presidential candidate Ron Paul, as well as economist Dr. Andrew Young.

[8] On January 25, 2014, McGeehan suspended his Senate campaign and filed to run for his former seat in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 2014.