Josh Hawley
Republican · MO · U.S. Senate
Bio
Joshua David Hawley is an American politician and attorney serving as the senior United States senator from Missouri, a seat he has held since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley served as the 42nd attorney general of Missouri from 2017 to 2019, before defeating two-term incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill in the 2018 election. He was reelected in 2024.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 7.6 years
- First took office
- 2019 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 78 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 46
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Cape Girardeau, MO · 573-334-5995
- Columbia, MO · 573-554-1919
- St. Louis, MO · 314-354-7060
- Kansas City, MO · 816-960-4694
- Springfield, MO · 417-869-4433
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
- $1.7M – $4.4M
- Liabilities
- $600k – $1.3M
- Net worth
- $489k – $3.8M
- Since 2018
- +$1.8M
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
Josh Hawley'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 Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairscenter · 15 members
- Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensionscenter · 23 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 22 members
- Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurshipcenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Hawley'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
Josh Hawley Demands Answers From Flock Safety Over ‘Abuse and Misuse of Personal Data’ Across Nationwide AI…Senator Hawley investigates Flock Safety's nationwide license-plate camera network, raises privacy concerns after reports of misuse.
Biztoc.com · August 27, 2026
If America Doesn’t Want Data Centers, Where Will They Go?There are few political topics that Governors Kathy Hochul and Greg Abbott would likely agree on. But data centers might be one of them. On August 3, Texas Governor Greg Abbott announced a moratorium on Texas data centers (which had been growing at breakneck …
The New Republic · August 25, 2026
Some Republicans Are Finally Realizing They Wrecked the Middle ClassThe headlines following JD Vance’s recent appearance on Joe Rogan’s podcast were the sort of red meat you’d expect to come out of a Rogan sit-down: Vance admitted the Trump administration botched the Epstein files, he humored Rogan’s extraterrestrial fixation…
The New Republic · August 11, 2026
Sen. Hawley calls out Fauci for ABUSING Fifth Amendment | Fox News VideoSen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo, criticizes Dr. Anthony Fauci for not answering questions during his hearing before Congress.
Fox News · August 7, 2026
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