Joe Wilson
Republican · SC-2 · U.S. House
Bio
Addison Graves "Joe" Wilson Sr. is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 2nd congressional district since 2001. A member of the Republican Party, his district stretches from Columbia to the Georgia–South Carolina border. He served as the South Carolina state senator from the 23rd district from 1985 to 2001.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 24.6 years
- First took office
- 2001 (13 terms)
- Seniority
- 37 of 437 by time served
- Age
- 79
- West Columbia, SC · 803-939-0041
- Aiken, SC · 803-642-6416
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
- $1.0M – $2.0M
- Liabilities
- $630k – $1.4M
- Net worth
- −$450k – $1.4M
- Since 2019
- −$20k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 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
Joe Wilson'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
Joe Wilson (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.
Do you vote like Wilson?
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Caucuses & committees
Where Wilsonsits 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.
Committees
- House Committee on Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
- House Committee on Education and Workforcecenter · 36 members
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 50 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Wilson'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
South Carolina Governor Picks Lindsey Graham’s Sister to Finish TermSouth Carolina Governor Henry McMaster appointed Darline Graham Nordone Monday to finish out the Senate term of her belated brother, Senator Lindsey Graham.“Today under the law, it’s my duty—and honor—to name someone to serve and replace this irresistible man…
The New Republic · July 13, 2026
'Devastated': Lindsey Graham's sister responds as Trump floats her as his replacementLindsey Graham's only surviving family member said she was "kind of like devastated" as President Donald Trump publicly pushed her to fill her late brother's Senate seat.Darline Graham Nordone, 62, of Lexington, South Carolina, was asked Monday about her reac…
Raw Story · July 13, 2026
Rep. Nancy Mace interested in Lindsey Graham's vacated Senate seatSouth Carolina Republican Reps. Nancy Mace and Joe Wilson are among the first to express interest in the Senate seat vacated by Lindsey Graham.
CNBC · July 12, 2026
‘Stop embarrassing yourself’: Congressional Republicans clash over international eventThe Scoop A transcontinental dispute between two senior Republican lawmakers escalated over the weekend when one briefly barred the other from their own delegation’s return flight to Washington. The rift between Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker and South Carolin…
Biztoc.com · July 7, 2026
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