Roger F. Wicker

Republican · MS · U.S. Senate

Bio

Roger Frederick Wicker is an American politician, attorney, and former Air Force officer serving as the senior United States senator from Mississippi, a seat he has held since 2007. A member of the Republican Party, Wicker was a Mississippi State Senator from 1988 to 1995 and the U.S. representative from Mississippi's 1st congressional district from 1995 until 2007.

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Record of service

In office: 31.7 years
Chambers: House 13y, Senate 18.8y
First took office: 1995 (11 terms)
Seniority: 11 of 100 by time served
Age: 75
Senate class: 1 · senior senator

District offices

Gulfport, MS · 228-871-7017
Hernando, MS · 662-429-1002
Jackson, MS · 601-965-4644
Tupelo, MS · 662-844-5010
Tupelo, MS · 662-844-5010

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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

−$182k

2019

−$732k

2020

−$422k

2021

−$997k

2022

−$199k

2023

−$281k

2024

−$179k

2025

−$139k

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $467k – $1.1M
Liabilities: $600k – $1.3M
Net worth: −$783k – $505k
Since 2018: +$43k

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+0.43

Healthcare

R+0.56

Immigration & Border

R+1.00

Guns

R+1.00

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+1.00

Environment & Energy

R+0.77

Crime & Policing

R+0.62

Defense & Veterans

R+0.72

Economy & Labor

R+0.79

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.69

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.52

Education

R+0.83

Government & Democracy

R+0.52

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+0.76

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

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

92%Closest

64%

31%

22%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

18%

Communist Party USA

17%

On the political map

Roger F. Wicker (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 Wickersits 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

Commission on Security and Cooperation in EuropeCochairmancenter · 9 members
Senate Select Committee on IntelligenceEx Officiocenter · 21 members
Senate Committee on Armed ServicesChairmancenter · 27 members
Airland (Ex Officio)Emerging Threats and Capabilities (Ex Officio)Personnel (Ex Officio)Readiness and Management Support (Ex Officio)Seapower (Ex Officio)Strategic Forces (Ex Officio)Cybersecurity (Ex Officio)
Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportationcenter · 28 members
Telecommunications and Media Coast Guard, Maritime, and Fisheries Surface Transportation, Freight, Pipelines, and Safety
Senate Committee on Environment and Public Workscenter · 18 members
Clean Air, Climate, and Nuclear Innovation and Safety Chemical Safety, Waste Management, Environmental Justice, and Regulatory Oversight Transportation and Infrastructure
Senate Committee on Rules and Administrationcenter · 17 members

Most and least aligned members

Treating Wicker'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.