Doctors You Didn't Know Were Republican

John Barrasso

John Barrasso was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1952, and attended Georgetown University and earned a Bachelor's of Science in 1974 and a Doctorate in Medicine in 1978. He then completed a residency at Yale Medical School and settled down in Casper, Wyoming. John Barrasso became an orthopedic surgeon at Casper Orthopedic Associates and practiced there from 1983 to 2007. Following that, he became Chief Of Staff at Wyoming Medical Center while also serving the rodeo associations and state fair as a surgeon. John Barrasso also held the title as the President of the Wyoming Medical Society. He unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate in 1996 but was elected to the Wyoming State Senate as a Conservative Republican in 2002 and held his seat until 2006. John Barrasso was then elected into the United States Senate as a Republican the same year and has held office ever since. He held the Minority Policy Committee Chair in the Senate in 2015, and Majority Policy Committee Chair from 2015 to 2019. John Barrasso is also a Chair in the Republican Conference of the Senate.

John Barrasso stands with President Donald Trump and the Republican Party positions on political, social, and economic issues. He voted to support the bill for setting requirements for the care of infants born after failed abortions and voted to support the bill to put a permanent ban on the use of federal funds for abortion or health coverage that includes abortions.