Mike Ezell

Republican · MS-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Walter Michael Ezell is an American former law enforcement officer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Mississippi's 4th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the sheriff of Jackson County from 2014 to 2022, where he focused on eliminating corruption and modernizing law enforcement operations.

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Record of service

In office: 3.6 years
First took office: 2023 (2 terms)
Seniority: 325 of 437 by time served
Age: 67

District offices

Hattiesburg, MS · 601-582-3246
Laurel, MS · 601-425-7247
Gulfport, MS · 228-864-7670
Pascagoula, MS · 228-202-5890

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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

2023

−$234k

2024

−$59k

2025

−$59k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $2k – $30k
Liabilities: $50k – $100k
Net worth: −$98k – −$20k
Since 2023: +$175k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 2 assets reported

First Federal Of Pascagoula$1k – $15k

Gulf Trust Federal Credit Union (Formerly Singing River Health Credit Union)$1k – $15k

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+0.69

Healthcare

R+0.89

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.89

Crime & Policing

R+0.99

Defense & Veterans

R+0.92

Economy & Labor

R+0.75

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.88

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.37

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.92

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

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

87%Closest

59%

24%

15%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

11%

Communist Party USA

On the political map

Mike Ezell (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 Ezellsits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Ezell'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.