Josh Hawley
United States Senator from MO
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Josh Hawley is a Republican Missouri senator, former state attorney general, and prominent conservative voice on Big Tech, labor, and cultural issues.
Joshua David Hawley serves as the junior U.S. Senator from Missouri, a Republican first elected in 2018 by defeating incumbent Democrat Claire McCaskill and re-elected in 2024. A Lexington, Missouri native and graduate of Stanford and Yale Law School, Hawley clerked for Chief Justice John Roberts, litigated First Amendment and religious-liberty cases at a public-interest law firm, and taught at the University of Missouri School of Law before being elected Missouri attorney general in 2016. In the 119th Congress, Hawley chairs the Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Counterterrorism and the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Disaster Management, District of Columbia, and Census, while also serving on Armed Services, HELP, and Small Business committees. Hawley has built a national profile as a conservative populist focused on antitrust enforcement against large technology companies, manufacturing and working-class economics, labor organizing, China policy, and social conservatism, and drew extensive attention for his objections to certifying Electoral College votes on January 6, 2021.