Harriet HagemanHarriet Hageman WY-01

Current: US House At Large member since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat  Republican
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History: Hageman holds degrees from the University of Wyoming and has spent her career as a trial attorney. Hageman served as a law clerk for Judge James E. Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. 

With the endorsement of former president Donald Trump, Hageman later defeated incumbent representative Liz Cheney, a Trump critic and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, by a landslide. Hageman was a candidate in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election, placing third.

 

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Current: US House At Large member since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat  Republican
Next Election

History: Hageman holds degrees from the University of Wyoming and has spent her career as a trial attorney. Hageman served as a law clerk for Judge James E. Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. 

With the endorsement of former president Donald Trump, Hageman later defeated incumbent representative Liz Cheney, a Trump critic and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, by a landslide. Hageman was a candidate in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election, placing third.

 

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About

Harriet Hageman WY-01Congresswoman Harriet Hageman intends to focus her efforts in Congress on ensuring that it is the Legislative Branch – and only the Legislative Branch – that passes legislation, thereby limiting the Executive Branch to its rightful role of carrying out the law as intended by our Founders. Harriet has dedicated much of her career to fighting for and protecting the constitutional rights of the citizens of Wyoming and elsewhere. Harriet has extensive experience engaging in complex discovery and trials against federal agencies. She is licensed to practice law in Wyoming, Colorado, Nebraska, the District of Columbia, and has been admitted before the United States Supreme Court.

Personal

Full Name: Harriet M. Hageman

Gender: Female

Family: Husband: John

Home City: Cheyenne, WY

Source: Vote Smart

Education

JD, University of Wyoming, 1989

BS, Business Administration, University of Wyoming, 1986

Political Experience

Representative, United States House of Representatives, Wyoming, District At-Large, 2023-Present

Candidate, Governor, Wyoming, 2018

Professional Experience

Former Law Clerk, James E. Barrett, United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals

Offices

Washington DC Office
1531 Longworth House Office Building
Washington, DC  20515Phone: (202) 225-2311

Cheyenne District Office
2120 Capitol Avenue, Suite 8005
Cheyenne, WY  82001Phone: (307) 829-3299

Casper District Office
100 E B Street, Suite 4003
Casper, WY  82601Phone: (307) 261-6595

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Politics

Source: none

Election Results

To learn more, go to this wikipedia section in this post.

Committees

Congresswoman Hageman currently serves on 2 committees for the 118th Congress, and is one of only a select few freshman members to serve as chair for a subcommittee.

Links to her committee and subcommittee websites can be found below, as well as a list of her caucus memberships.

Committees

House Committee on the Judiciary

House Committee on Natural Resources

New Legislation

 Sponsored and Cosponsored

Issues

Economy & Jobs

Economy

Education

Education

Energy & Environment

Energy

Healthcare

Health

Governance

Congress

Veterans

Hageman Votes to Support National Defense and Military Families
July 14, 2023

Press Release
Washington, DC – Today, Harriet Hageman voted in favor of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which passed the House 219-210. The FY24 NDAA provides for our nation’s defense, counters Communist Chinese aggression, supports our servicemembers and their families through a pay increase, improved housing, and access to healthcare.

More Information

Services

Source: Government page

Wikipedia

Harriet Maxine Hageman (born October 18, 1962) is an American politician and attorney serving as the U.S. representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district since 2023. She is a member of the Republican Party.

A Wyoming native, Hageman holds degrees from the University of Wyoming and has spent her career as a trial attorney. She unsuccessfully ran for the Republican nomination for governor of Wyoming in 2018 and later served as a member of the Republican National Committee. With the endorsement of former president Donald Trump, Hageman later defeated incumbent representative Liz Cheney, a Trump critic and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, by a landslide in the 2022 Republican primary election, garnering over twice as many votes as Cheney while spending less than a quarter of Cheney’s campaign expenditures.

Hageman was sworn into Congress on January 3, 2023. She is running unopposed for re-election in 2024.[1]

Early life and education

Harriet Maxine Hageman was born on a ranch outside of Fort Laramie, Wyoming, near the Nebraska border, on October 18, 1962.[2][3] Her father, James Hageman, served as a longtime member of the Wyoming House of Representatives until his death in 2006.[4] She is a fourth-generation Wyomingite; her great-grandfather[who?] moved to the then-Wyoming Territory from Texas in 1878.[5]

After graduating from Fort Laramie High School, Hageman earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration from the University of Wyoming and a Juris Doctor from the University of Wyoming College of Law.[6][7]

Legal career

Hageman served as a law clerk for Judge James E. Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. She has since worked as a trial attorney. In 1997, Hageman represented Wyoming in Nebraska v. Wyoming, a dispute over management of the North Platte River.[8][9] In the case, she advocated against the United States Forest Service‘s roadless rule.[10][11][12] In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Hageman supported U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and criticized Donald Trump.[13]

Hageman was a candidate in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election, placing third after investment manager Foster Friess and the eventual winner, state Treasurer Mark Gordon. Hageman was the Republican National Committeewoman for Wyoming in 2020 and 2021.[14]

U.S. House of Representatives

Hageman at AmericaFest in 2022.

Elections

2022

On September 9, 2021, Hageman announced her candidacy for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district, challenging three-term incumbent Liz Cheney for the Republican nomination in the 2022 election. In her campaign announcement, Hageman claimed that Cheney no longer represented the people of Wyoming due to her opposition to Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Noting that Trump had carried Wyoming by landslide majorities in both of his campaigns, Hageman said that by opposing Trump, Cheney “betrayed Wyoming, she betrayed this country, and she betrayed me”.[15][16] She formally launched her campaign at a Cheyenne hotel later that day, saying that Wyoming needed someone in Congress “who represents Wyoming’s conservative values” and had “Wyoming’s best interests at heart”. She also claimed that Cheney’s drive to “destroy President Trump” made her ineffective in Washington. Two other primary challengers dropped out and endorsed Hageman.[17] She was quickly endorsed by Trump, who had personally interviewed several prospective primary challengers to Cheney.[18]

Hageman and Cheney had been close political allies for several years. Hageman was an adviser to Cheney’s brief 2014 Senate campaign,[19] and introduced Cheney at a rally during Cheney’s first congressional bid in 2016.[13] According to Hageman, the relationship cooled when Cheney criticized Trump for not acting on claims that Russia put bounties on American troops in Afghanistan and chilled even further when Cheney called for Trump to acknowledge that he had lost the 2020 election.[20][17] Hageman claimed that when Cheney called her to say that any claims about irregularities in the 2020 election were untrue, “that was probably the end of our relationship”. She added that had she known that Cheney would have voted to impeach Trump, she “never would have answered [Cheney’s] first phone call” in 2016.[17] Hageman later claimed that Cheney and others had deceived her into opposing Trump but dismissed her previous opposition to Trump as “ancient history”.[21] In a statement to The New York Times, she called Trump “the greatest president of my lifetime.”[9]

Besides Trump, Hageman was endorsed by many other prominent Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.[22][23][24] She also received campaign support from several Trump administration staffers, including Bill Stepien, Justin R. Clark, and Tim Murtaugh.[25] In January 2022, it was reported that Hageman’s campaign had raised $1 million, to Cheney’s $4.5 million.[26]

Hageman raced out to a large lead in opinion polling. A University of Wyoming poll taken a week before the election showed Hageman with a 29-point lead over Cheney.[27] She defeated Cheney in the Republican primary in a landslide,[28] winning 66.3% of the vote to Cheney’s 28.9%. Hageman carried all but two counties in the state, Cheney’s home county of Teton County, and Albany County, home to the University of Wyoming.

In the general election, Hageman faced Democratic nominee and Native American activist Lynnette Grey Bull, who was Cheney’s opponent in 2020. Hageman was overwhelmingly favored.[19] Republicans had a nearly 7-to-1 advantage in registration over Democrats,[29] and Trump won the state in 2020 with 70% of the vote, his strongest state-level performance in the nation.

As expected, Hageman won the 2022 election handily, defeating Grey Bull, 67% to 24%. Upon taking office in 2023, she became the fourth consecutive Republican woman to represent Wyoming in the House. Barbara Cubin won the seat in 1994 and handed it to Cynthia Lummis in 2008, who handed it to Cheney in 2016.

Tenure

In the contested 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election, though many of Hageman’s colleagues in the Freedom Caucus refused to support Kevin McCarthy, Hageman backed him on every ballot.[30]

Committee assignments

Source:[31]

Caucus memberships

Political positions

Hageman calls herself an unyielding conservative. During her gubernatorial campaign, she claimed that government was too pervasive in American lives, to the point that it was replacing “community, the organizations you belong to, and family support.”[5] Along similar lines, during her congressional campaign, she highlighted her past work in “defending our great state against the excess of government”.[16] She argued that as part of her plan to “protect Wyoming”, her priorities would be “energy independence, regulatory reform, restor[ing] power to the states, protection of our southern border and enforcement of our immigration laws.” She added that while in Congress, she would “focus on what is in the best interest of the United States, and, specifically, what is in the best interest of Wyoming.”[17] She believes the framers of the Constitution intended for “the Legislative Branch—and only the Legislative Branch” to make law.[32]

Hageman is a vocal supporter of the fossil fuel industry, saying at an August 2022 campaign event that coal is an “affordable, clean, acceptable resource that we all should be using”.[33]

Syria

In 2023, Hageman was among 47 Republicans to vote in favor of H. Congressional Resolution 21, which directed President Joe Biden to remove U.S. troops from Syria within 180 days.[34][35]

Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023

Hageman was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 in the House.[36]

Personal life

Hageman is married to Cheyenne-based malpractice attorney John Sundahl.[37] She is Protestant.[38]

Electoral history

2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election – Republican primary[39]
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanMark Gordon 38,951 33.0
RepublicanFoster Friess29,84225.3
RepublicanHarriet Hageman25,05221.2
RepublicanSam Galeotos14,55412.3
RepublicanTaylor Haynes6,5115.5
RepublicanBill Dahlin1,7631.5
n/aUnder votes1,2691.1
RepublicanWrite-ins1130.0
n/aOver votes460.0
Total votes118,101 100.0
2022 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming – Republican primary [40]
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanHarriet Hageman 113,025 66.3
RepublicanLiz Cheney (incumbent)49,31628.9
RepublicanAnthony Bouchard4,5052.6
RepublicanDenton Knapp2,2581.3
RepublicanRobyn Belinskey1,3050.8
Total votes170,409 100.0
2022 United States House of Representatives election in Wyoming – General election [41]
PartyCandidateVotes%
RepublicanHarriet Hageman 132,206 66.7
DemocraticLynnette Grey Bull47,25023.8
LibertarianRichard Brubaker5,4202.7
n/aWrite-Ins4,5212.3
ConstitutionMarissa Selvig4,5052.3
n/aUnder votes3,6601.8
n/aOver votes6360.3
Total votes198,198 100.0

References

  1. ^ Woodward, Chris (January 6, 2024). “Representative Harriet Hageman running for second term in Congress”. The Washington Examiner. Retrieved 2024-01-06.
  2. ^ “Home | Harriet Hageman for Wyoming”. Harriet Hageman. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  3. ^ Seddiq, Omar (July 10, 2022). “This Trump-Backed Candidate Is Vying to Defeat Liz Cheney in a Heated Republican Primary for Wyoming’s Sole Congressional Seat”. Business Insider. Retrieved July 10, 2022.
  4. ^ Hansen, Sandra (March 10, 2019). “Hageman family preserving ranch life”. Star-Herald. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  5. ^ a b “An Introduction to Harriet Hageman”. Hageman for Wyoming. March 25, 2018.
  6. ^ Hansen, Sandra (January 23, 2018). “Hageman looking to serve Wyoming people”. Platte County Record-Times. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  7. ^ “Harriet Hageman -“. Archives of Women’s Political Communication. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
  8. ^ Ring, Ray (2009-11-06). “The Wicked Witch of the West”. www.hcn.org. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  9. ^ a b Epstein, Reid J. (2021-09-27). “How an Anti-Trump Plotter in 2016 Became His Champion Against Liz Cheney”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  10. ^ Turner, Tom (2010-04-14). Roadless Rules: The Struggle for the Last Wild Forests. Island Press. ISBN 978-1-59726-797-7.
  11. ^ Cama, Timothy (2022-01-19). “Meet the anti-conservation Republican vying to unseat Cheney”. E&E News. Retrieved 2022-02-23.
  12. ^ Gabriel, Trip (2022-08-16). “Lawyer Who Defeated Cheney Spent Career Fighting Environmental Rules”. The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
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  14. ^ “Potential Cheney challenger steps down from RNC post”. POLITICO. 7 September 2021. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  15. ^ Archie, Ayana (2022-08-17). “Who is Harriet Hageman, the woman who beat Liz Cheney in the Wyoming House race?”. NPR. Retrieved 2022-08-17.
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  17. ^ a b c d Hannah Black (September 9, 2021). “Trump endorses Hageman as she announces run against Cheney”. Wyoming Tribune-Eagle.
  18. ^ Bob Beck (September 9, 2021). “Harriet Hageman Is Trump’s Pick To Face Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney”. Wyoming Public Radio.
  19. ^ a b Arit John (August 16, 2022). “Rep. Liz Cheney loses Wyoming GOP primary to Trump-backed challenger”. Los Angeles Times.
  20. ^ Schmitt, Eric; Goldman, Adam; Fandos, Nicholas (July 29, 2020). “Spies and Commandos Warned Months Ago of Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops”. The New York Times. Retrieved 29 September 2022.
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  23. ^ “Trump endorses Wyoming lawyer to unseat Liz Cheney in biggest test of his ability to purge his critics from the party”. Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-14.
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  34. ^ “H.Con.Res. 21: Directing the President, pursuant to section 5(c) of … — House Vote #136 — Mar 8, 2023”.
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Harriet Hageman WY-01

Current: US House At Large member since 2023
Affiliation: Democrat  Republican
Next Election

History: Hageman holds degrees from the University of Wyoming and has spent her career as a trial attorney. Hageman served as a law clerk for Judge James E. Barrett of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. 

With the endorsement of former president Donald Trump, Hageman later defeated incumbent representative Liz Cheney, a Trump critic and vice chair of the House January 6 Committee, by a landslide. Hageman was a candidate in the 2018 Wyoming gubernatorial election, placing third.

 

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Current Position: US Representative since 2017
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Senator

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She was first elected in 2016, on a platform of restoring America’s strength and power in the world, and pursuing conservative solutions to create jobs, cut taxes and regulation, and expand America’s energy, mining and agriculture industries.

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