Josh Hawley

About Josh Hawley

Politician who rose to prominence after taking office as Missouri's 42nd Attorney General in January 2017. During the 2018 midterm elections, he was elected to represent Missouri in the Senate as a Republican, defeating Claire McCaskill in the process.

Joshua David Hawley is an American politician, lawyer, and former professor who has served as the junior United States senator from Missouri since 2019. A member of the Republican Party, Hawley served as the 42nd attorney general of Missouri from 2017 to 2019, before defeating two-term incumbent Democratic senator Claire McCaskill in the 2018 election. Born in Springdale, Arkansas, to a banker and a teacher, Hawley graduated from Stanford University in 2002 and Yale Law School in 2006. He was a law clerk to Tenth Circuit Judge Michael W. McConnell and Chief Justice John Roberts and then worked as a lawyer, first in private practice, from 2008 to 2011, and then for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, from 2011 to 2015. Before becoming Missouri Attorney General, he was also a post graduate intern at St Paul's School in London, an associate professor at the University of Missouri School of Law, and a faculty member of the conservative Blackstone Legal Fellowship.

Education	Stanford University (BA), Yale University (JD)
Residence	Vienna, Virginia, U.S.
Preceded by	Claire McCaskill
Children	3
Born	Joshua David Hawley, December 31, 1979, Springdale, Arkansas, U.S.
Political party	Republican

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Trivia

His biography Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness was published by Yale University Press when he was 28. He was admitted to the Supreme Court Bar in 2015, thus allowing him to argue cases in front of the Court. 

Josh Hawley before fame

In 2002, he received an honors degree in history from Stanford University. In 2006, he received his JD from Yale Law School.

Achievement of Josh Hawley

When he was 28, Yale University Press published his biography Theodore Roosevelt: Preacher of Righteousness. In 2015, he was admitted to the Supreme Court Bar, allowing him to present cases to the Court.

Salary 2020

Not known

Net Worth 2020

Undisclosed

Josh Hawley family life

He has two sons with his wife Erin.

Associations of Josh Hawley

In 2017, he served as Attorney General of Missouri under then-governor Eric Greitens.

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