John A. Barrasso

Republican senior Senator of Wyoming

  • 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)