Sam Graves
Republican · MO-6 · U.S. House
MO-6 — U.S. House
Safe R 99%Sam Graves is not among the listed candidates for this seat — the seat is still up in 2026, as every House seat is. Josh Smead vs. Chris Stigall. Runs on a newly enacted district map.
Bio
Samuel Bruce Graves Jr. is an American politician who is currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for Missouri's 6th congressional district, with him being the dean of Missouri's congressional delegation upon the retirement of Senator Roy Blunt in 2023, and having held office since 2001. The aforementioned district stretches across most of the northern third of the state, with it including territory from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. The bulk of its population lives in the northern part of the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 25.7 years
- First took office
- 2001 (13 terms)
- Seniority
- 33 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 62
- St. Joseph, MO · 816-749-0800
- Troy, MO · 636-622-7106
- Hannibal, MO · 573-221-3400
- Kansas City, MO · 816-792-3976
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
- $702k – $1.5M
- Liabilities
- $1.7M – $6.4M
- Net worth
- −$5.7M – −$184k
- Since 2019
- −$3.3M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 7 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
Sam Graves'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
Sam Graves (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.
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Caucuses & committees
Where Gravessits 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 Armed Servicescenter · 57 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Graves'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
Every House Member Who’s Still Not at Work After a Five-Week VacationThe House of Representatives has returned from its five-week summer vacation, but for more than three dozen members that extended break apparently wasn’t enough.According to the House clerk, 46 lawmakers failed to make it back to Washington in time for the fi…
The New Republic · September 1, 2026
They’ve Been Screwed Over for 160 Years. Trump Is Screwing Them More.On the day we met in early June, Philip “P.J.” Haynie III’s gears had ground him awake just before 4:30 a.m. By the time I got into his truck, he had already spent the morning farming in his head. Rain was coming at 10 a.m.—half a day earlier than previously …
The New Republic · August 27, 2026- Record number of lawmakers retiring from Congress ahead of midterms
On Friday, Republican Congressman Sam Graves of Missouri became the 36th Republican -- and 57th House member -- to announce plans not to seek re-election, saying it was time to "pass the torch" to a new generation. In fact, more Republicans are retiring ahead…
Freerepublic.com · March 30, 2026 
Powerful Republican Will Soon Take His Leave From HousePowerful House Republican Sam Graves is stepping away from Congress after more than two decades, adding another name to the growing roster of lawmakers calling it quits. The 62-year-old Missourian, who chairs the House Transportation and Infrastructure Commit…
Newser · March 28, 2026
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