Frank J. Mrvan

Democrat · IN-1 · U.S. House

Bio

Frank John Mrvan is an American politician who has served as the U.S. representative for Indiana's 1st congressional district since 2021. From 2005 until 2021, he served as the township trustee for North Township, Indiana. Mrvan is a member of the Democratic Party.

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Record of service

In office: 5.6 years
First took office: 2021 (3 terms)
Seniority: 259 of 437 by time served
Age: 57

District offices

Merrillville, IN · 219-795-1844

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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

2021

−$101k

2022

−$196k

2023

−$196k

2024

−$359k

2025

−$718k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $204k – $560k
Liabilities: $700k – $1.5M
Net worth: −$1.3M – −$140k
Since 2021: −$617k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 assets reported

Spouse 401k$100k – $250k

First Midwest Savings$1k – $15k

Old national bank$1k – $15k

Peoples Bank$1k – $15k

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

D+0.43

Healthcare

D+0.90

Immigration & Border

D+0.20

Guns

D+0.85

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

D+1.00

Environment & Energy

D+0.76

Crime & Policing

R+0.03

Defense & Veterans

R+0.03

Economy & Labor

D+0.39

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.41

Civil Rights & Social

D+0.89

Education

D+0.52

Government & Democracy

D+0.65

Judicial & Executive Nominations

D+1.00

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

Frank J. Mrvan's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

Democratic Party

87%Closest

Green Party

79%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

76%

Communist Party USA

75%

Libertarian Party

53%

Republican Party

40%

On the political map

Frank J. Mrvan (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

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 Mrvansits 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

New Democrat Coalitionstrongly left · 109 members
Congressional Equality Caucusstrongly left · 153 members

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Energy and Water Development and Related Agencies

Most and least aligned members

Treating Mrvan'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.