Bill Hagerty

Republican · TN · U.S. Senate

On the ballot in 2026

Tennessee — U.S. Senate

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R +5 points of win probability since September.

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Bio

William Francis Hagerty IV is an American politician, businessman, and diplomat serving as the junior United States senator from Tennessee since 2021. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the 30th United States ambassador to Japan from 2017 to 2019 under President Donald Trump.

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Record of service

In office: 5.7 years
First took office: 2021 (1 terms)
Seniority: 84 of 100 by time served
Age: 67
Senate class: 2 · junior senator

District offices

Nashville, TN · 615-736-5129
Chattanooga, TN · 423-752-5337
Blountville, TN · 423-325-6240
Knoxville, TN · 865-545-4253
Memphis, TN · 901-544-4224
Jackson, TN · 731-234-9358
Cookeville, TN · 931-400-7080

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Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.31

Healthcare

R+0.66

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

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Environment & Energy

R+0.92

Crime & Policing

R+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.70

Economy & Labor

R+0.63

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.74

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.49

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.87

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

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

90%Closest

62%

30%

20%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

17%

Communist Party USA

15%

On the political map

Bill Hagerty (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 Hagertysits 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

Most and least aligned members

Treating Hagerty'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.