Margaret Wood Hassan
Democrat · NH · U.S. Senate
Bio
Margaret Wood Hassan is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator for New Hampshire since 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, Hassan was the 81st governor of New Hampshire, from 2013 to 2017.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 9.6 years
- First took office
- 2017 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 67 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 68
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- Berlin, NH · 603-752-6190
- Manchester, NH · 603-622-2204
- Portsmouth, NH · 603-433-4445
- Concord, NH · 603-622-2204
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
- $3.9M – $8.4M
- Liabilities
- $350k – $750k
- Net worth
- $3.1M – $8.1M
- Since 2018
- +$2.1M
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
Margaret Wood Hassan'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
Margaret Wood Hassan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hassansits 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 Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hassan'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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Common Dreams · July 30, 2026
Democrat Senator Cries Hearing Is Designed To ‘Entrap’ FauciDemocrat New Hampshire Senator Maggie Hassan cried on Wednesday that the hearing for Dr. Anthony Fauci is designed to entrap him.
The Daily Caller · July 29, 2026- More than 100 U.S. political leaders have ancestors who were slaveholders; There is one notable exception
At least 100 members of the last sitting Congress, are direct descendants of ancestors who enslaved Black people, representing at least 8% of Democrats in Congress and 28% of Republicans. The group includes Republican senators Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham,…
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Raw Story · July 11, 2026
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