James Lankford
Republican · OK · U.S. Senate
Bio
James Paul Lankford is an American Southern Baptist minister and politician serving as the senior United States senator from Oklahoma, a seat he has held since 2015. Previously, he represented Oklahoma's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2011 to 2015. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 15.7 years
- Chambers
- House 4y, Senate 11.7y
- First took office
- 2011 (5 terms)
- Seniority
- 46 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 58
- Senate class
- 3 · senior senator
- Senate Republican Conference Vice Chair · 2025–present
- Oklahoma City, OK · 405-231-4941
- Tulsa, OK · 918-581-7651
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
- $299k – $935k
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- −$201k – $685k
- Since 2018
- +$135k
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
James Lankford'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
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Caucuses & committees
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Committees
- Senate Select Committee on Intelligencecenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
Most and least aligned members
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Recent notable votes
Latest news
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Trump to travel to at least 10 states before the midterms, including traditional battlegroundsPolitico Trump’s motorcade neared 100 mph en route to Oklahoma after helicopter, airplane ruled outThe Hill 'Double-edged sword': Trump blitzes red states amid plung…
Slashdot.org · October 3, 2026 
The GOP's 3-Step Scam: Break the Country, Blame Others, Then Claim Only We Can Fix ItIt’s not working any more, this scam Republicans have been running for 45 years, although Trump and many others are trying their best to revive it. Their strategy has always been simple: break things here in America, create chaos and a mess, hurt working clas…
Common Dreams · September 28, 2026
Bipartisan duo wants to remind Congress, Trump of China's 'atrocities' ahead of Xi visitSens. James Lankford and Angus King detail 105 years of Chinese Communist Party repression, from mass killings to Uyghur Muslim detention camps.
Fox News · September 23, 2026- Ranking Member Shaheen, Senator Lankford Introduce Legislation to Support Lebanon's Sovereignty and Counter Hezbollah
Today, U.S. Senators Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Ranking Member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and James Lankford (R-OK) introduced the Lebanon Sanctions, Stabilization and Support Act, legislation to support Lebanon's rule of law and democratic instit…
Globalsecurity.org · August 7, 2026
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