John A. Barrasso
Republican senior Senator of Wyoming
Senator
Wyoming
June 25, 2007 - January 3, 2013
Senator
Wyoming
January 3, 2013 - January 3, 2019
Senator
Wyoming
January 3, 2019 - January 3, 2025
9
Congresses Served
3
Senate Terms
January 1, 1952 (73 years old)
Birthday
- American physician and politician serving as a senior United States senator since 2007
- Served in the Wyoming State Senate from 2003 to 2007
- Chair of the Senate Republican Conference since 2019, making him the third-ranking Senate Republican
- Born and raised in Reading, Pennsylvania
- Graduated from Georgetown University with a B.S. and M.D.
- Completed medical residency at Yale University
- Moved to Wyoming and began a private orthopedics practice in Casper
- Active in various medical societies and associations
- Ran for U.S. Senate in 1996 but lost the Republican primary
- Appointed to the U.S. Senate in 2007 following the death of incumbent Craig L. Thomas
- Elected to finish Thomas’s term in 2008 and reelected in 2012 and 2018
- Dean of Wyoming’s congressional delegation
- Initially identified as pro-choice but shifted to a more conservative stance on abortion and other issues over time
- Voted against the Affordable Care Act and various other health care-related bills
- Denied the scientific consensus on climate change in 2014 but acknowledged human contribution to climate change in 2021
- Opposed the FIRST STEP Act, a criminal justice reform bill
- Opposed the Russian-backed Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
- Supported Donald Trump, including opposing his second impeachment and voting against the creation of the January 6 commission
- Voted against the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023
- Divorced from first wife, remarried in 2008 to Bobbi Brown who died of brain cancer in 2024
- Member of the Presbyterian Church (USA)