John Barrasso Net Worth, Family, Wife, Education, Children, Age, Biography and Political Career

John Barrasso's Net Worth

John Barrasso's Net Worth is $ 9.4 Million as of 2024.

John Barrasso Family

Barrasso was born in Reading, Pennsylvania in 1952 the son of Louise M. and John Anthony Barrasso, Jr. is of Italian descent. has a 1970 graduate of the previous Central Catholic high school, which in 2011 merged with Holy Name high school to make Berks Catholic high school. Barrasso attended Rensselaer Polytechnic (where he became a member of Phi Kappa Tau fraternity) for 2 years before transferring to Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., graduating Phi Beta Kappa in 1974 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology. He received his M.D. degree from Georgetown University School of Drugs in 1978. He conducted his residency at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut.

John Barrasso's Wife and Children

Barrasso has three children. He's divorced from Linda Nix and married to his second wife, Bobbi Brown. On August 11, 2007, during Cheyenne's annual Race for the Cure, Barrasso and Brown, herself a carcinoma survivor and at the time the director of Barrasso's state senate offices announced their engagement. Brown then resigned from her position in Barrassos state Senate offices. They were married on January 1, 2008, in Thermopolis.

John Barrasso Career and Achievement

1996 U.S. Senate Election

Barrasso ran for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate in 1996 for the seat being vacated by Republican Alan K. Simpson, losing narrowly to Senator Mike Enzi, 32% to 30%, during a nine-candidate election.
Wyoming Senate

Barrasso was elected to the Wyoming Senate unopposed in 2002 and reelected unopposed in 2006.

During his time in the State Senate, he served as chairman of the Transportation and Highways Committee.
U.S. Senate.

Appointment

On June 22, 2007, Governor Dave Freudenthal appointed Barrasso to exchange Senator Craig L. Thomas, who died earlier that month. Under state law, Freudenthal was ready to consider only three individuals chosen by the Republican State Central Committee because the seat was vacated by a Republican. The others were former treasurer Cynthia Lummis of Cheyenne, later Wyomings member of the us House of Representatives and its junior U.S. senator, and former Republican State Chairman and lobbyist Tom Sansonetti, a former aide to Thomas. Matt Mead, the grandson of former Senator Clifford P. Hansen, also sought the nomination, as did the 2006 gubernatorial nominee Ray Hunkins, a Wheatland rancher and lawyer. Mead was elected governor of Wyoming in 2010, and Lummis was elected to Congress in 2008, and to the Senate in 2020, where she now serves alongside Barrasso. When he was appointed, Barrasso said he would also run within the November 2008 special election to fill the rest of Thomas's term.

Elections

2008

Barrasso announced on May 19, 2008, that he would run within the election in 2008 to serve the rest of Thomas's term, though he had already stated that intention before his appointment. Tom Sansonetti, one among the three Republican candidates selected for consideration by Freudenthal, said he wouldn't challenge Barrasso within the primary. the opposite candidate for selection, Cynthia Lummis, was a candidate for the Republican nomination to exchange retiring U.S. Representative Barbara Cubin for the state at-large seat within the U.S. House of Representatives. Barrasso didn't face a primary opponent. The Democratic nominee was Nick Carter, a lawyer from Gillette. Pundits unanimously rated the race "Safe Republican." needless to say, Barrasso won the overall election during a landslide, garnering 73% of the vote.

2012

Barrasso ran for reelection to a primary term in 2012. He faced three opponents for the Republican nomination, which he won with 90% of the vote. within the election , he faced Democratic nominee Tim Chestnut, a member of the Albany County Board of Commissioners. Barrasso won the election with 76% of the vote.

2018

Barrasso was reelected with 67% of the vote over Teton County board of education Trustee Gary Trauner, rock bottom percentage of his three U.S. Senate campaigns and therefore the closest a Democrat came to winning the seat since the 1996 election.

Tenure

At the time of his appointment to the U.S. Senate in 2007, Barrasso was quoted as saying on his application: "I believe limited government, lower taxes, less spending, traditional family values, local control and a robust national defense", he also said that he had "voted for prayer in schools, against gay marriage and (had) sponsored legislation to guard the sanctity of life".