Sam Graves

Republican · MO-6 · U.S. House

Bio

Samuel Bruce Graves Jr. is an American politician who is currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 6th congressional district, with him being the dean of Missouri's congressional delegation upon the retirement of Senator Roy Blunt in 2023, and having held office since 2001. The aforementioned district stretches across most of the northern third of the state, with it including territory from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. The bulk of its population lives in the northern part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.

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Record of service

In office: 25.6 years
First took office: 2001 (13 terms)
Seniority: 33 of 437 by time served
Age: 62

District offices

St. Joseph, MO · 816-749-0800
Troy, MO · 636-622-7106
Hannibal, MO · 573-221-3400
Kansas City, MO · 816-792-3976

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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

$329k

2020

$264k

2021

$264k

2022

$290k

2023

−$391k

2024

−$116k

2025

−$2.9M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $702k – $1.5M
Liabilities: $1.7M – $6.4M
Net worth: −$5.7M – −$184k
Since 2019: −$3.3M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 assets reported

Trust interest in residence in Washington, DC, and Tarkio, Mo, 50% Interest$500k – $1.0M

Airport Farms Aviation LLC, 1954 North American T6-J, Vans RV-8, 50% Interest$100k – $250k

Farmers State Bank Account/US Bank$50k – $100k

Graves Brothers Farm$50k – $100k

Congressional Federal Credit Union$1k – $15k

Farm Equipment and Machinery$1k – $15k

Rockin Hord, LLC$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+0.76

Healthcare

R+0.67

Immigration & Border

R+0.98

Guns

R+0.93

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+0.85

Defense & Veterans

R+0.79

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.13

Education

R+0.66

Government & Democracy

R+0.91

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

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

90%Closest

64%

28%

19%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

14%

On the political map

Sam Graves (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 Gravessits 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 Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Tactical Air and Land Forces
House Committee on Transportation and InfrastructureChaircenter · 66 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Graves'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.