John Kennedy

Republican · LA · U.S. Senate

Bio

John Neely Kennedy is an American politician and attorney who has served as the junior United States senator from Louisiana since 2017. A member of the Republican Party, he served as the Louisiana State Treasurer from 2000 to 2017, as Secretary of the Louisiana Department of Revenue from 1996 to 1999, and as special counsel and then cabinet member to Governor Buddy Roemer from 1988 to 1992.

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Record of service

In office: 9.7 years
First took office: 2017 (2 terms)
Seniority: 66 of 100 by time served
Age: 74
Senate class: 3 · junior senator

District offices

Alexandria, LA · 318-445-2892
Baton Rouge, LA · 225-926-8033
Houma, LA · 985-851-0956
Mandeville, LA · 985-809-8153
Monroe, LA · 318-361-1489
New Orleans, LA · 504-581-6190
Shreveport, LA · 318-670-5192
Lafayette, LA · 337-269-5980
Lake Charles, LA · 337-573-6800

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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

2016

$10.9M

2017

$11.2M

2018

$10.9M

2019

$13.1M

2020

$13.0M

2021

$15.2M

2022

$15.0M

2023

$15.1M

2024

$19.1M

2025

$18.5M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $10.7M – $26.6M
Liabilities: $100k – $250k
Net worth: $10.4M – $26.5M
Since 2016: +$7.6M

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+0.28

Healthcare

R+0.37

Immigration & Border

R+0.81

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.87

Crime & Policing

R+0.58

Defense & Veterans

R+0.68

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.65

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.62

Education

R+0.91

Government & Democracy

R+0.63

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.75

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

91%Closest

63%

32%

23%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

19%

Communist Party USA

18%

On the political map

John Kennedy (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 Kennedysits 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 Kennedy'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.