Josh Hawley
U.S. Senator from Missouri
Joshua David Hawley was born in December 1979 in Springdale, Arkansas, but the family soon moved to Missouri. He received an undergraduate degree in history from Stanford University. He moved to London and taught at St. Paul’s School for a year, then returned to the U.S. where he earned a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. He clerked at the U.S. Tenth Circuit court of Appeals and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts for a year. He entered into the private practice of law as a litigator.
Hawley served as a faculty member of the Blackstone Legal Fellowship. He was elected Attorney General of Missouri and served two years until he was elected to the United States Senate, assuming his seat in January 2019.
He is married to Erin Morrow Hawley, and they have two sons. He is Protestant.
In the News…
Legislation has been introduced by Missouri Senator Josh Hawley that would reverse the Supreme Court case Citizens United v. FEC.
Senator Hawley stated, “My goal is to get corporate money out of our politics.” He said the unchecked corporate influence over politics and the nation’s elections is a deterrent to both American workers and democracy. Before the Faith and Freedom Coalition recently, he said, “Corporations are not people.”
To his colleagues in the Senate, he said, “Listen, there is no reason we should want to empower these mega-corporations, who are already in bed and colluding with the government, and give them control over our elections and over our speech.”
Contact this Leader…
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The Honorable Josh Hawley
U.S. Senator from Missouri
115 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
