Wesley Bell

Democrat · MO-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Wesley Jonell-Cleavon Bell is an American attorney and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 1st congressional district since 2025. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri, from 2019 to 2025.

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Record of service

In office: 1.6 years
First took office: 2025 (1 terms)
Seniority: 395 of 437 by time served
Age: 51

District offices

St. Louis, MO · 314-955-9980

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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

2025

−$318k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $15k – $50k
Liabilities: $200k – $500k
Net worth: −$485k – −$150k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 1 assets reported

St. Louis County Contributory Retirement Plan$15k – $50k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.83

Healthcare

D+0.84

Immigration & Border

D+0.93

Guns

D+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.75

Crime & Policing

D+0.82

Defense & Veterans

D+0.84

Economy & Labor

D+0.69

Foreign Policy & Trade

D+0.51

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.83

Education

D+0.88

Government & Democracy

D+0.88

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

Wesley Bell's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Green Party

93%Closest

Communist Party USA

91%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

91%

Democratic Party

89%

Libertarian Party

52%

Republican Party

24%

On the political map

Wesley Bell (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Bellsits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucusstrongly left · 77 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Tactical Air and Land Forces Strategic Forces
House Committee on Oversight and Government Reformcenter · 47 members
Health Care and Financial Services Federal Law Enforcement

Most and least aligned members

Treating Bell'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.