Sherrod Brown
Democrat senior Senator of Ohio
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 5, 1993 - January 3, 1995
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 4, 1995 - January 3, 1997
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 7, 1997 - January 3, 1999
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 6, 1999 - January 3, 2001
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 3, 2001 - January 3, 2003
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 7, 2003 - January 3, 2005
Representative
Ohio, district 13
January 4, 2005 - January 3, 2007
Senator
Ohio
January 4, 2007 - January 3, 2013
Senator
Ohio
January 3, 2013 - January 3, 2019
Senator
Ohio
January 3, 2019 - January 3, 2025
16
Congresses Served
7
House Terms
3
Senate Terms
January 1, 1952 (72 years old)
Birthday
- Senior United States senator since 2007
- Former U.S. representative for Ohio’s 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007
- Served as the 47th secretary of state of Ohio from 1983 to 1991
- Began political career in 1975 as a state representative
- Defeated two-term Republican incumbent in the 2006 U.S. Senate election
- Reelected in 2012 and 2018
- Chair of the Agriculture Subcommittee on Hunger, Nutrition and Family Farms and the Banking Subcommittee on Economic Policy
- Member of the Committee on Finance, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and Select Committee on Ethics
- Became the ranking Democratic member on the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs in 2015
- Became chair of the Banking Committee in 2021
- Became Ohio’s senior U.S. senator after the retirement of George Voinovich in 2011
- Only Democratic statewide elected official in Ohio since 2011, with the exception of some Democratic-affiliated Ohio Supreme Court justices
- Considered a liberal, progressive, and populist Democrat
- Born in Mansfield, Ohio
- Became an Eagle Scout in 1967
- Graduated from Mansfield Senior High School in 1970
- Received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Russian studies from Yale University in 1974
- Received a Master of Arts degree in education and a Master of Public Administration degree from the Ohio State University
- Taught at Ohio State University’s Mansfield branch campus from 1979 to 1981
- Advocated for increased funding to fight tuberculosis and led efforts to block the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA)
- Opposed an amendment to Ohio’s constitution that banned same-sex marriage and voted against the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996
- Critic of free trade and has taken progressive stances on financial issues
- Proposed a bill for immediate paid sick days for workers during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Voted to remove President Donald Trump from office after his first impeachment
- Introduced the Charter School Accountability Act of 2015
- Supported the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and co-sponsored the single-payer Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act
- Voted against prohibiting same-sex couples from adopting children in Washington D.C. and has a pro-gay rights stance
- Introduced the Gold Star Fathers Act of 2014 and legislation to give military veterans priority in scheduling classes in colleges
- Urged investigation into possible tax avoidance and misconduct associated with the Panama Papers
- Sponsored legislation to require corporate political action committees to disclose their donors
- Criticized free trade with China and other countries, and has argued against free trade on the grounds that it harms the U.S. economy
- Opposed the Iraq War and voted against the Iraq Resolution
- Criticized the political influence of gun manufacturers and supported gun control measures
- Co-sponsored a bill to restrict ISIS’s financing and supported measures to prevent terrorism