John H. Rutherford

Republican · FL-5 · U.S. House

Bio

John Henry Rutherford is an American politician and former law enforcement officer serving as the U.S. representative from Florida's 5th congressional district since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, his district encompasses southeast Jacksonville and all of St. Johns County.

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Record of service

In office: 9.6 years
First took office: 2017 (5 terms)
Seniority: 165 of 437 by time served
Age: 73

District offices

Jacksonville, FL · 904-831-5205

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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

2019

$1.5M

2020

$1.5M

2021

$1.4M

2022

$959k

2023

$951k

2024

$950k

2025

$942k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $652k – $1.6M
Liabilities: $100k – $250k
Net worth: $402k – $1.5M
Since 2019: −$594k

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 23 assets reported

John and Pat Rutherford Properties, LLC$250k – $500k

New York Life Universal$250k – $500k

Vystar Credit Union$50k – $100k

City & Police Federal Credit Union$15k – $50k

National Financial Services/Fidelity - Traditional IRA ⇒ Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Lt$15k – $50k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ SPDR Select Sector Fund - Financial (XLF)$15k – $50k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ SPDR Select Sector Fund - Technology (XLK)$15k – $50k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE All World Ex US ETF (VEU)$15k – $50k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ Vanguard FTSE Pacific ETF (VPL)$15k – $50k

Sunshine Group Partners$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ Fidelity Government Money Market Fund (SPAXX)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ iShares Core MSCI Europe ETF (IEUR)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ iShares Core S&P Small-Cap ETF (IJR)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ iShares Expanded Tech Sector ETF (IGM)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Asia ETF (EEMA)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ SPDR Select Sector Fund - Consumer Discretionary (XLY)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ SPDR Select Sector Fund - Consumer Staples (XLP)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ SPDR Select Sector Fund - Health Care (XLV)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ SPDR Select Sector Fund - Utilities (XLU)$1k – $15k

Premiere Select IRA ⇒ The Communication Services Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLC)$1k – $15k

Opko Health, Inc. (OPK)$1 – $1k

National Financial Services/Fidelity - Traditional IRA ⇒ Fidelity Treasury Money Market Fu$1 – $1k

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

R+0.76

Healthcare

R+0.74

Immigration & Border

R+0.97

Guns

R+0.88

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.81

Crime & Policing

R+0.85

Defense & Veterans

R+0.83

Economy & Labor

R+0.78

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.72

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.45

Education

R+0.67

Government & Democracy

R+0.85

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+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

John H. Rutherford's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

92%Closest

63%

27%

18%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

14%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

John H. Rutherford (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 Rutherfordsits 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

Committees

House Committee on Appropriationscenter · 62 members
Homeland Security Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies

Most and least aligned members

Treating Rutherford'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.