Jon Husted
Republican · OH · U.S. Senate
Bio
Jon Allen Husted is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Ohio. A member of the Republican Party, he served from 2019 to 2025 as the 66th lieutenant governor of Ohio and from 2011 to 2019 as the 50th Ohio secretary of state.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 1.6 years
- First took office
- 2025 (1 terms)
- Seniority
- 97 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 58
- Senate class
- 3 · junior senator
- Toledo, OH · 567-304-3777
- Columbus, OH · 614-369-4925
- Middletown, OH · 513-318-1100
- Cleveland, OH · 216-539-7877
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
- $1.9M – $5.0M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $1.9M – $5.0M
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
Jon Husted'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
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Caucuses & committees
Where Hustedsits 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 Special Committee on Agingcenter · 13 members
- Senate Committee on Appropriationscenter · 29 membersFinancial Services and General GovernmentDepartment of Interior, Environment, and Related AgenciesDepartments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related AgenciesState, Foreign Operations, and Related ProgramsAgriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related AgenciesLegislative Branch
- Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 19 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 Husted'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
As GOP warns data centers put Ohio Senate seat at risk, Husted defends energy policySen. Jon Husted, R-Ohio, defended President Donald Trump's energy and economic agenda on Friday during an appearance at a southwestern Ohio steel mill with Vice President JD Vance, as Republicans warn that backlash over data centers could be putting his seat …
Biztoc.com · August 21, 2026
As GOP warns data centers put Ohio Senate seat at risk, Husted defends energy policyVice President JD Vance joined Sen. Jon Husted and other GOP leaders at a Middletown, Ohio steel plant, as data center fears loom.
CNBC · August 21, 2026
Republicans Are Realizing That No One Wants Data CentersThe National Republican Senatorial Committee issued a memo Tuesday suggesting that, if incumbent Republican Ohio Sen. Jon Husted loses his upcoming election against former Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio), the Republican Party’s position on data centers is to blam…
Mother Jones · August 20, 2026
Fox Hits Trump with Crushing Polls—and Wrecks Fox’s Own Pro-Trump SpinFox News has some very bad news for Fox News. You’ve probably noticed that Fox pumps out enormous amounts of propaganda designed to smear the Democratic Party as wildly extreme and irredeemably crazy. Leading Fox personalities routinely depict the party as ho…
The New Republic · August 14, 2026
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