
Jack Bergman
Republican · MI-1 · U.S. House
Bio
John Warren Bergman is an American politician and retired United States Marine Corps lieutenant general serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan's 1st congressional district since 2017. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- First took office
- 2017 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 172 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 79
- Traverse City, MI · 231-944-7633
- Gwinn, MI · 906-273-2227
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
- $647k – $1.4M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $647k – $1.4M
- Since 2019
- +$0
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 10 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
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
Jack Bergman'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
Jack Bergman (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Bergmansits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.
Caucuses
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on the Budgetcenter · 37 members
- House Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 24 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Bergman'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
Michigan GOPers Put Canada on Blast Over Wildfire SmokeFour House Republicans from Michigan say their neighbors to the north aren't doing enough to keep their fires—and their smoke—at home. In a sharply worded letter to Canada's prime minister, the BBC reports that John James, John Moolenaar, Jack Bergman, and Li…
Newser · July 17, 2026
Lawmakers Will Wash Vietnam Memorial To Honor 'Those Who Gave Everything': Vietnam Vet Jack BergmanOn Thursday, members of the For Country Caucus, a bipartisan group of veterans serving in Congress, will hand wash the Vietnam Veterans Memorial ahead of Memorial Day.
Forbes · May 20, 2026
Psychedelics Are A 'Magic Cure' For Mental Health Conditions, Congressman Says - Marijuana MomentA bipartisan pair of members of Congress are continuing their push to expedite the availability of psychedelic therapies that they believe can aid military veterans and other people who are struggling with mental health conditions. Reps. Jack Bergman (R-MI) a…
Marijuana Moment · May 13, 2026- Why Governments Prefer Cigarette Revenue over Safer Alternatives
In December 2024, Congress did something unusual: it introduced a bill that openly acknowledges tobacco harm reduction. The POUCH Act of 2024, sponsored by Rep. Jack Bergman (R-MI) and co-sponsored by Rep. Don Davis (D-NC), aims to prevent states and cities f…
Activistpost.com · December 22, 2025
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