James R. Baird
Republican · IN-4 · U.S. House
Bio
James Richard Baird is an American businessman and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 4th congressional district since 2019. Previously, he served on the Indiana House of Representatives from 2010 to 2018 and on the Putnam County commissioner from 2006 to 2010. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (4 terms)
- Seniority
- 205 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 81
- Danville, IN · 317-563-5567
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
- $10.6M – $51.3M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $10.6M – $51.3M
- Since 2019
- +$31.6M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 4 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
James R. Baird'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
James R. Baird (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Bairdsits 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.
Committees
- House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
- House Committee on Science, Space, and Technologycenter · 39 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Baird'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
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