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.

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Record of service

In office: 7.7 years
First took office: 2019 (2 terms)
Seniority: 78 of 100 by time served
Age: 46
Senate class: 1 · senior senator

District offices

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

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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

2018

$382k

2019

−$3.1M

2020

−$200k

2021

$20k

2022

$881k

2023

$521k

2024

$1.6M

2025

$2.1M

Most recent filing (2025)

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)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.27

Healthcare

R+0.42

Immigration & Border

R+0.74

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

—

Environment & Energy

R+0.94

Crime & Policing

R+1.00

Defense & Veterans

R+0.62

Economy & Labor

R+0.60

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.76

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.74

Education

R+1.00

Government & Democracy

R+0.71

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.95

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.

89%Closest

61%

31%

21%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

18%

Communist Party USA

16%

On the political map

Josh Hawley (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 Hawleysits 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 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.