Ron Johnson
United States Senator from WI
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Ron Johnson is the junior U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, a former plastics manufacturer and Tea Party-aligned conservative serving his third term.
Ronald Harold Johnson, Wisconsin's junior senator since 2011, has pursued a fiscally conservative agenda focused on federal spending accountability and regulatory reform. A Mankato, Minnesota, native and University of Minnesota graduate, Johnson spent more than three decades running PACUR, a plastics manufacturing company in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, before running for Senate in 2010 as a Tea Party-aligned first-time candidate. He defeated Democratic incumbent Russ Feingold and was subsequently re-elected in 2016 by defeating Feingold again, and in 2022 by narrowly defeating Lieutenant Governor Mandela Barnes. In the Senate, Johnson has served as chair of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. In the 119th Congress, he serves on Budget, Commerce, Foreign Relations, and the Special Committee on Aging. Johnson has been a prominent conservative voice on federal spending restraint, Wisconsin manufacturing competitiveness, and has engaged extensively in issues surrounding pandemic origins and federal health policy.