Scott DesJarlais

Republican · TN-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Scott Eugene DesJarlais is an American politician and physician serving as the U.S. representative for Tennessee's 4th congressional district since 2011. The district stretches across East and Middle Tennessee. He is a member of the Republican Party and a conservative.

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Record of service

In office: 15.6 years
First took office: 2011 (8 terms)
Seniority: 79 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

Winchester, TN · 931-962-3180
Murfreesboro, TN · 615-896-1986

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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

2019

$153k

2020

$478k

2021

$478k

2022

$576k

2023

$618k

2024

$618k

2025

$577k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $311k – $842k
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $311k – $842k
Since 2019: +$424k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 19 assets reported

CD First Southern State Bank ⇒ CD First Southern State Bank$50k – $100k

Commercial Lot South Pittsburg ⇒ Commercial Lot South Pittsburg$50k – $100k

IRA MORGAN STANLEY ACCOUNT ⇒ Vanguard S&P 500 ETF (VOO)$50k – $100k

PACIFIC LIFE 401-K PACIFIC VALUE ANNUNITY ⇒ Pacific Life 401K$50k – $100k

CD First Southern State Bank$15k – $50k

HCA Lifeline 401K$15k – $50k

CD First Southern State Bank ⇒ CD First Southern State Bank$15k – $50k

Edward Jones ⇒ Edward Jones Money Market Fund - Investment Shares (JNSXX)$15k – $50k

Edward Jones ⇒ United Parcel Service, Inc. Common Stock (UPS)$15k – $50k

EQUITY TRUST IRA Diatech LLC ⇒ EQUITY TRUST IRA Diatech LLC$15k – $50k

Equity Trust IRA DiaTech Oncology LLC Limited Partnership ⇒ EQUITY TRUST IRA Diatech LLC$15k – $50k

Tower Bank Checking$1k – $15k

CD First Southern State Bank ⇒ CD First Southern State Bank$1k – $15k

Edward Jones ⇒ iShares International Select Dividend ETF (IDV)$1k – $15k

Edward Jones ⇒ Pepsico, Inc. (PEP)$1k – $15k

First Southern State Bank PS ⇒ First Southern State Bank PS$1k – $15k

Savings First Southern State Bank$1 – $1k

Savings First Southern State Bank ⇒ Savings First Southern State Bank$1 – $1k

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

R+0.73

Healthcare

R+0.77

Immigration & Border

R+0.96

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.88

Crime & Policing

R+0.84

Defense & Veterans

R+0.59

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.66

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.44

Education

R+0.69

Government & Democracy

R+0.90

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+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

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

92%Closest

63%

28%

18%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

14%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Scott DesJarlais (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 DesJarlaissits 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
Freedom Caucusstrongly right · 31 members

Committees

House Committee on Agriculturecenter · 53 members
Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Nutrition and Foreign Agriculture
House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Seapower and Projection Forces Strategic Forces (Chairman)

Most and least aligned members

Treating DesJarlais'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.