John B. Larson
Democrat · CT-1 · U.S. House
Bio
John Barry Larson is an American businessman and Democratic Party politician serving as the U.S. representative for Connecticut's 1st congressional district since 1999. The district is based in the state capital, Hartford. Larson chaired the House Democratic Caucus during the 111th and 112th United States Congress.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 27.6 years
- First took office
- 1999 (14 terms)
- Seniority
- 28 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 78
- East Hartford, CT · 860-278-8888
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
- $1.5M – $3.6M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $1.5M – $3.6M
- Since 2019
- +$2.6M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 31 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
John B. Larson'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 B. Larson (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Larsonsits 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
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Committees
- House Committee on Ways and Meanscenter · 45 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Larson'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
Social Security's fiercest champion just lost his seatFor everyone counting on Social Security in retirement, the program's most persistent congressional advocate just lost his seat. John Larson of Connecticut, the top Democrat on the House Ways and Means Social Security Subcommittee, fell in a primary on Aug. 1…
Biztoc.com · August 18, 2026
Hiltzik: A political farewell to one of the best friends Social Security ever had in CongressA political farewell to one of the best friends Social Security ever had in Congress - Click here to listen to this article - - Rep. John Larson fought hard in Congress to protect Social Security. Will his much younger successor play the same role? The yout…
Biztoc.com · August 18, 2026
What the results of a Connecticut congressional primary race may mean for Social SecurityRep. John Larson of Connecticut, an advocate for expanding Social Security, was ousted in a Democratic primary contest Tuesday.
Biztoc.com · August 16, 2026
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