Ron Estes

Republican · KS-4 · U.S. House

Bio

Ronald Gene Estes is an American politician and civil engineer serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as the 39th Kansas State Treasurer from 2011 until his resignation in 2017 and as treasurer of Sedgwick County from 2004 to 2010.

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Record of service

In office: 9.3 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 183 of 437 by time served
Age: 70

District offices

Wichita, KS · 316-262-8992

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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

$1.1M

2020

$1.1M

2021

$1.3M

2022

$1.0M

2023

$477k

2024

$650k

2025

$669k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $385k – $1.3M
Liabilities: $110k – $265k
Net worth: $120k – $1.2M
Since 2019: −$382k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 34 assets reported

KPERS 457 ⇒ DFA US Large Cap Value 1$100k – $250k

KPERS 457 ⇒ T Rowe Price Capital Appreciation$100k – $250k

Spouse 401k - Stand Together Benefits, LLC 401K Plan ⇒ State Street Target Retire 2030 SL $100k – $250k

Investment ⇒ US Treasury Savings Bonds$15k – $50k

KPERS 457 ⇒ Stable Value Fund - Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company$15k – $50k

KPERS 457 ⇒ Vanguard Total Bond Market Index Inst$15k – $50k

Bank ⇒ Mid American Credit Union$1k – $15k

Dependent Coverdale college savings ⇒ Putnam Large Cap Value Fund - A$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ American Balanced Fund Cl F3$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ American Mutual Fund Cl F3$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ Dodge & Cox Income Fund$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ Invesco Corporate Bond Fund Cl R6 (ICBFX)$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ Invesco Global Opportunities Cl R6$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ Investment Company of America - American Funds$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ JP Morgan Mid Cap Value Cl L$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ New Perspective Fund Cl F3 - American Funds$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ T. Rowe Price Integrated U.S. Small-Cap Growth Equity Fund - Class I (TQAIX)$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ Vanguard Total World Stock Index ETF (VT)$1k – $15k

Spouse 401k - TruStage Financial Group ⇒ BR LP ldx 2030 G$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ American Funds Washington Mutual Invstrs Fd - F1$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ FederatedHermes Prime Cash Obl AS$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ Goldman Sachs Intl Equity Insights Fund - A$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ GoldmanSachs Emerging Mkt Eq A$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ JPMorgan SmCap Equity A$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ Parnassus Mid Cap Fund - Inv$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PGIM High Yield Fund - A$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PRIMECAP Odyssey Growth Fund$1k – $15k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PRIMECAP Odyssey Stock Fund$1k – $15k

Spouse Deferred Comp - MA ⇒ SMART Capital Preservation Fund$1k – $15k

Spouse Roth IRA - Putnam Investments ⇒ Putnam Intl Capital Opps - A$1k – $15k

Spouse Roth IRA - Putnam Investments ⇒ Putnam Large Cap Value Fund A$1k – $15k

Roth IRA ⇒ U.S. Treasury Money Fund - I Class (TRGXX)$1 – $1k

Spouse 403b - Lincoln Investment ⇒ PIMCO International Bond Fund - A$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+0.74

Healthcare

R+0.73

Immigration & Border

R+0.95

Guns

R+0.94

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.86

Crime & Policing

R+0.87

Defense & Veterans

R+0.68

Economy & Labor

R+0.80

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.70

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.45

Education

R+0.58

Government & Democracy

R+0.86

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

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

91%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Ron Estes (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 Estessits 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 the Budgetcenter · 37 members
House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Tax Social Security (Chair)
Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Estes'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.