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, and they have three children. He is Protestant.
In the News…
Senator Josh Hawley of Missouri, member of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, added protections against child trafficking to the Secure America Act. The legislation to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will include a “generational investment” that will employ hundreds of child exploitation investigators and forensic analysts.
Senator Hawley stated, “This will be a tremendous step forward to be able to do something very tangible and very immediate to help children who have been harmed in the worst possible way by the online world.”
Homeland Security Investigations currently has only 7 officials to address thousands of instances of child victimization.
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The Honorable Josh Hawley
U.S. Senator from Missouri
381 Russell Senate Office Building
Washington, DC 20510
