Kweisi Mfume
Democrat · MD-7 · U.S. House
Bio
Kweisi Mfume is an American politician who is the U.S. representative for Maryland's 7th congressional district, first serving from 1987 to 1996 and again since 2020. A member of the Democratic Party, Mfume first left his seat to become the president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a position he held from 1996 to 2004. In 2006, he ran for the United States Senate seat being vacated by Paul Sarbanes, losing the Democratic primary to the eventual winner, Ben Cardin. Mfume returned to his former House seat in 2020 after it was left vacant by the death of Elijah Cummings.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.4 years · not continuous, returned 2020
- First took office
- 1987 (9 terms)
- Seniority
- 94 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 77
- Baltimore, MD · 410-685-9199
- Catonsville, MD · 410-818-2120
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
- $700k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $0 – $0
- Net worth
- $700k – $1.5M
- Since 2021
- −$273k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 3 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
Kweisi Mfume'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
Kweisi Mfume (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Mfumesits 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 Progressive Caucusstrongly left · 93 members
- Congressional Black Caucusstrongly left · 63 members
- Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Mfume'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
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The New Republic · March 25, 2026
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The New Republic · December 15, 2025
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Raw Story · July 28, 2025
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Raw Story · July 25, 2025
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