Russell Fry
Republican · SC-7 · U.S. House
SC-7 — U.S. House
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Bio
Russell William Fry is an American politician and lawyer serving as the U.S. representative for South Carolina's 7th congressional district since 2023. Previously, he represented the 106th District in the South Carolina House of Representatives from 2015 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 345 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 41
- Florence, SC · 843-799-6880
- Surfside Beach, SC · 843-353-5377
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
- $6k – $90k
- Liabilities
- $615k – $1.3M
- Net worth
- −$1.3M – −$525k
- Since 2023
- −$200k
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 6 assets reported
Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.
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
Russell Fry'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
Russell Fry (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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 Frysits 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
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
- House Committee on the Judiciarycenter · 44 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Fry'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
Russell Fry endorses ex-rival Darline Graham after failing to advance to special GOP US Senate primary runoffRep. Russell Fry, who placed third in the South Carolina special GOP U.S. Senate primary, endorsed Sen. Darline Graham ahead of the runoff in which she will face Rep. Ralph Norman.
Fox News · August 17, 2026
Darline Graham Picks Up Another Key EndorsementSen. Darline Graham just received another key endorsement in her bid to keep her late brother's seat for a full term . Rep. Russell Fry, who finished third in this week's South Carolina primary, endorsed Graham on Friday in the runoff later this month, per th…
Newser · August 14, 2026
US Rep. Russell Fry endorses Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina Republican Senate runoffCongressman Russell Fry says he's supporting Sen. Darline Graham in South Carolina's Republican Senate primary runoff
Abcnews.com · August 14, 2026
Desperate Trump begs nemesis for help amid intra-MAGA infightingPresident Donald Trump, rattled by a string of embarrassing primary losses this year, is scrambling to save his endorsed candidate in South Carolina's Senate runoff – and turning to a surprising source for help.Sen. Darline Graham, appointed by Trump to finis…
Raw Story · August 14, 2026
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