John W. Hickenlooper
Democrat · CO · U.S. Senate
Bio
John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. is an American politician, geologist, and businessman serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019 and as the 43rd mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.6 years
- First took office
- 2021 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 83 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 74
- Senate class
- 2 · junior senator
- Denver, CO · 303-244-1628
- Colorado Springs, CO · 719-632-6706
- Grand Junction, CO · 970-822-4530
- Durango, CO · 970-880-7236
- Greeley, CO · 970-352-5546
- Fort Collins, CO · 970-484-3502
- Glenwood Springs, CO · 970-989-7075
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
- Assets
- $17.1M – $62.3M
- Liabilities
- $1.5M – $6.0M
- Net worth
- $11.1M – $60.8M
- Since 2020
- +$16.9M
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)
Issue profile
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
John W. Hickenlooper's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.
On the political map
John W. Hickenlooper (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hickenloopersits 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
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resourcescenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hickenlooper'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.
Recent notable votes
Latest news
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The New Republic · August 7, 2026
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Common Dreams · July 30, 2026
Progressive Surge Shows Its Reach and Its Limits in ColoradoThe progressive surge showed its reach and its limits in the Colorado primary results. DSA member Melat Kiros beat veteran House member Diana DeGuette, but centrist Senator John Hickenlooper had no trouble moving on.
New York Magazine · July 1, 2026
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