Marsha Blackburn
Republican · TN · U.S. Senate
Bio
Mary Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Blackburn was a state senator from 1999 to 2003 and represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, during which time the National Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.6 years
- Chambers
- House 16y, Senate 7.6y
- First took office
- 2003 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 22 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 74
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Chattanooga, TN · 423-541-2939
- Jackson, TN · 731-660-3971
- Knoxville, TN · 865-540-3781
- Memphis, TN · 901-527-9199
- Nashville, TN · 629-800-6600
- Johnson City, TN · 423-753-4009
Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.
Reported net worth
- Assets
- $831k – $2.4M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $331k – $2.2M
- Since 2018
- +$1.4M
From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →
Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)
Issue profile
Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.
How they score against the parties
Marsha Blackburn's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Blackburn's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
Blackburn Blames Gas Prices And Inflation On BidenSen. Marsha Blackburn, who's hoping to become the next Governor of Tennessee, served up a big heaping helping of Biden Tourette syndrome when she was asked by Hannity guest host Kellyanne Conway about her party's message to voters for the midterms. Never mind…
Crooksandliars.com · August 22, 2026
Senators demand answers from TikTok over experiment that disabled safeguardsTwo senators have given TikTok a deadline to answer questions about an experiment that withheld a safety feature from 15 million U.S. users, including a teenager who later died by suicide. Senator Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) …
Biztoc.com · August 20, 2026
Republican Senator Accused of Refusing to Assist With Epstein Investigation — Despite Boasting About Handing Out Death Sentences for PredatorsSen. Marsha Blackburn is being accused of ignoring pleas to assist with the Epstein investigation, despite claiming Democrats 'stonewalled' the efforts.
Radaronline.com · August 13, 2026
Trump’s Grip on GOP Slips Again With Tennessee LossTrump’s grip on GOP slips again with Tennessee House primary loss. A Republican gerrymander accidentally took down the fiery Islamophobe Andy Ogles, despite Trump’s backing. Gubernatorial candidate Marsha Blackburn was luckier.
New York Magazine · August 7, 2026
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