
Kevin Hern
Republican · OK-1 · U.S. House
Bio
Kevin Ray Hern is an American politician and businessman from Oklahoma. A Republican, he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district since 2018.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.8 years
- First took office
- 2018 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 189 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 64
- House Republican Policy Committee Chair · 2025–present
- Tulsa, OK · 918-935-3222
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
- $49.2M – $173.1M
- Liabilities
- $30k – $100k
- Net worth
- $49.1M – $173.1M
- Since 2019
- +$50.8M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 326 assets reported
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)
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
Kevin Hern'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
Kevin Hern (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 Hernsits 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 Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hern'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
Meet the first ‘McSenator’ – former McDonald’s franchise owner goes from golden arches to upper chamberPresident Trump-endorsed Oklahoma Rep. Kevin Hern handily won his primary Tuesday, putting him on track to be sworn in as the next Sooner State "McSenator" -- the first to have banked millions during a career running McDonald's franchises.
New York Post · July 4, 2026
Trump-backed pastor drops Congress bid amid flirting scandalJackson Lahmeyer, the candidate previously backed by President Donald Trump in Oklahoma’s 1st Congressional District, dropped out of the race one day after advancing to a runoff in the GOP primary.NOTUS first reported earlier Wednesday that he was expected to…
Raw Story · June 18, 2026
Rep. Kevin Hern wins Oklahoma GOP nomination for U.S. Senate, governor's race heads to runoffThe primary had Republicans picking their preferred successor to outgoing Republican Gov. Kevin Stitt and a nominee for the Senate seat once held by Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin.
Biztoc.com · June 17, 2026- Rep. Kevin Hern wins GOP Senate primary in Oklahoma - NBC News
Rep. Kevin Hern wins GOP Senate primary in OklahomaNBC News Oklahoma U.S. Senate Primary 2026: Live Election ResultsThe New York Times Trump-backed 'McCongressman' wins Oklahoma Senate primary, vows push for stalled SAVE ActFox News Jim Priest advances to Dem…
Slashdot.org · June 17, 2026
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