Marsha Blackburn
Republican · TN · U.S. Senate
Bio
Mary Marsha Blackburn is an American politician and businesswoman serving as the senior United States senator from Tennessee. Blackburn was first elected to the Senate in 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Blackburn was a state senator from 1999 to 2003 and represented Tennessee's 7th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2019, during which time the National Journal rated her among the House's most conservative members.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 23.7 years
- Chambers
- House 16y, Senate 7.7y
- First took office
- 2003 (10 terms)
- Seniority
- 22 of 100 by time served
- Age
- 74
- Senate class
- 1 · senior senator
- Chattanooga, TN · 423-541-2939
- Jackson, TN · 731-660-3971
- Knoxville, TN · 865-540-3781
- Memphis, TN · 901-527-9199
- Nashville, TN · 629-800-6600
- Johnson City, TN · 423-753-4009
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
- $831k – $2.4M
- Liabilities
- $250k – $500k
- Net worth
- $331k – $2.2M
- Since 2018
- +$1.4M
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
Marsha Blackburn'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
- Joint Economic Committeecenter · 20 members
- Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
- Senate Committee on Financecenter · 27 members
- Senate Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 21 members
- Senate Committee on Veterans' Affairscenter · 19 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Blackburn'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
'Almost Manic': Trump's Bizarre Jaw Movements Leave Clinical Psychologist UnsettledOver the weekend, Trump held another rally, this time in Clarksville, TN, as part of his desperate, last-ditch effort to bolster his foundering party ahead of the midterm elections -- an event one clinical and forensic psychologist has called a "wild thing to…
Crooksandliars.com · Yesterday
‘Almost manic’: Trump’s odd jaw movement catches psychologist’s eyeA clinical and forensic psychologist breaking down President Donald Trump’s weekend rally in Tennessee flagged a moment he called “a really wild thing to watch”: Trump told the crowd he could say the stupidest things and they’d clap, and they did.Dr. John Pau…
Raw Story · Yesterday
'I Could Say Stupidest Things and You'd Clap,' Trump SaysPresident Trump boasted Saturday that he could blurt out nonsense and still get cheers from his supporters—and in Tennessee, he leaned into that hypothesis. Campaigning for Sens. Bill Hagerty and Marsha Blackburn, the president told a packed arena in Clarksvi…
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