
Julia Letlow
Republican · LA-5 · U.S. House
Bio
Julia Janelle Letlow is an American politician and academic administrator serving as the U.S. representative for Louisiana's 5th congressional district since 2021. Letlow is the first Republican woman to represent Louisiana in the House.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 5.4 years
- First took office
- 2021 (3 terms)
- Seniority
- 284 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 45
- Amite, LA · 985-284-5200
- Monroe, LA · 318-570-6440
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
- $333k – $2.7M
- Liabilities
- $100k – $250k
- Net worth
- $83k – $2.6M
- Since 2020
- +$1.5M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 169 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
Julia Letlow'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
Julia Letlow (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 Letlowsits 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 Governance Groupstrongly right · 44 members
- Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members
Committees
- House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Letlow'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
Can Jamie Davis raise enough to challenge Julia Letlow for Louisiana Senate? See the numbers.Republican Julia Letlow has big advantages in the contest for U.S. Senate in Louisiana, but Democrat Jamie Davis is touting a haul of $1.6 million as evidence he can run a competitive race.
The Advocate · July 22, 2026
After Lindsey Graham's death, sister joins long list of relatives who replaced late family members in CongressFrom Julia Letlow to Adelita Grijalva, family succession in Congress has a long history that now includes Lindsey Graham's sister in the Senate.
Fox News · July 14, 2026
U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow, endorsed by Trump, wins the GOP primary for Senate in LouisianaLetlow, who was endorsed by Trump, defeated state Treasurer John Fleming in the two-candidate runoff after they finished ahead of Cassidy in the GOP primary May 16.
Biztoc.com · June 28, 2026
Stephanie Grace: Julia Letlow’s campaign worked out exactly as Donald Trump intendedEver since the day President Donald Trump went on social media and urged U.S. Rep. Julia Letlow to run for Senate, his endorsement has been her calling card. Letlow’s easy win in Saturday’s Republican primary runoff shows just how nationalized politics in Lou…
The Advocate · June 28, 2026
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