Thomas H. Kean, Jr.
Republican · NJ-7 · U.S. House
NJ-7 — U.S. House
Lean D 70%Thomas H. Kean, Jr. is on the ballot. Rebecca Bennett vs. Thomas Kean Jr..
R +12 points of win probability since May.
Bio
Thomas Howard Kean Jr. is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 7th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he previously represented New Jersey's 21st legislative district in the New Jersey Senate from 2003 to 2022, serving as minority leader from 2008 to 2022, and represented the same district in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2001 to 2003.
Full bio on Wikipedia →Record of service
- In office
- 3.7 years
- First took office
- 2023 (2 terms)
- Seniority
- 329 of 439 by time served
- Age
- 58
- Mountainside, NJ
- Budd Lake, NJ
- Hopatcong, NJ
- Bernardsville, NJ · 908-547-3307
- Flemington, NJ
- Washington, NJ
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
- $8.0M – $20.9M
- Liabilities
- $510k – $1.0M
- Net worth
- $7.0M – $20.4M
- Since 2023
- −$4.3M
Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 143 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
Thomas H. Kean, Jr.'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
Thomas H. Kean, Jr. (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.
Do you vote like Jr.?
Answer a few questions on the issues and see which members of Congress — and which party — actually line up with you.
Caucuses & committees
Where Jr.sits 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.
Caucuses
- Problem Solvers Caucuscenter · 46 members
Committees
- House Committee on Foreign Affairscenter · 53 members
- House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Most and least aligned members
Treating Jr.'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
- For a Democrat in a traditionally red NJ district, how to woo Republican voters
Democratic candidate Rebecca Bennett campaigns in a living room in Bernards Township, New Jersey. The first-time Democrat says it’s still “a toss-up race” between her and incumbent GOP Rep. Tom Kean. [ more › ]
Gothamist · October 11, 2026 
Transcript: Trump Polls Turn Brutal as Allies Panic: “Worse than 2006”The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 9 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here.Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic, produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent.Today we’re…
The New Republic · October 8, 2026
As Trump's approval rating drops, Republicans begin to lose confidence in midtermsThe US Capitol Building is seen on October 1, in Washington, DC. - Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images Four weeks to Election Day, a growing number of House Republicans privately fear their chances of holding onto the majority are vanishing and have begun focusing…
CNN · October 3, 2026
New Jersey Democrat Rebecca Bennett Dodges Net Worth Question Three Times Despite Calls for TransparencyNew Jersey Democrat congressional candidate Rebecca Bennett repeatedly declined to disclose her net worth during a Sunday debate against incumbent Rep. Tom Kean Jr. (R-NJ), even as she campaigned on removing money from politics and criticized the incumbent ov…
Breitbart News · September 29, 2026
Recent coverage via NewsAPI, refreshed daily.