Candidate · U.S. Senate
Bill Hagerty
What this job does: One of Tennessee's two votes in the U.S. Senate. Senators write and vote on federal laws, taxes and spending, and approve or reject the president's picks for federal judges, the Supreme Court and the Cabinet. A term is six years.
- Current office
- U.S. Senator from Tennessee (since 2021)
- Occupation
- U.S. Senator; former business executive and diplomat
- Lives in
- Nashville
Background
- Born in 1959 in Gallatin, Tennessee; bachelor's (1981) and law (1984) degrees from Vanderbilt University. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Worked at Boston Consulting Group, was a White House Fellow under President George H. W. Bush, and co-founded the private equity firm Hagerty Peterson & Company. source: en.wikipedia.org
- Tennessee commissioner of Economic and Community Development (2011-2014). source: en.wikipedia.org
- U.S. Ambassador to Japan (2017-2019). source: en.wikipedia.org
- Elected to the U.S. Senate in 2020; unopposed in the Aug. 6, 2026 Republican primary. source: wsmv.com
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