Candidate status: Announced on December 20 that he was dropping out of race

Current job: U.S. representative from Colorado

Birth date: December 20, 1945; Denver, Colorado

Family: Married Jackie Tancredo; two children

Religion: Presbyterian

Education: University of Northern Colorado, B.A., 1968

Campaign Web site: www.teamtancredo.org

1968-1981: Taught junior high school.

1976-1981: Served as a member of the Colorado House of Representatives.

1981-1993: Appointed by President Reagan to head the regional office of the U.S. Department of Education.

1993-1998: Director of the Independence Institute, a privately funded conservative think tank based in Colorado.

1998: Elected from his Colorado district to the U.S. House of Representatives.

2006: Re-elected to his fifth term in the U.S. House.

Tancredo once criticized President Bush's "open door" border policy as a threat to national security. According to Tancredo, presidential adviser Karl Rove told him he was disloyal.

IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS

Follow the money: Democrats | Republicans

Sampling error: +/-5 percentage points. Based on interviews with 377 registered Republicans. The CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll was conducted December 6-9, 2007.

Some supporters, who may have also contributed to other candidates, include:

* Money figures are according to FEC

Some of the top and notable advisers, according to the campaigns and/or media reports.