Harriet Hageman

She is a fourth-generation Wyomingite; her great-grandfather moved to the then-Wyoming Territory from Texas in 1878.

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.

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.

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.

Harriet Maxine Hageman was born on a ranch outside of Fort Laramie, Wyoming, near the Nebraska border, on October 18, 1962.

In 1997, Hageman represented Wyoming in Nebraska v. Wyoming, a dispute over management of the North Platte River.

In the case, she advocated against the United States Forest Service's roadless rule.

Her father, James Hageman, served as a longtime member of the Wyoming House of Representatives until his death in 2006.

Hageman was an adviser to Cheney's brief 2014 Senate campaign, and introduced Cheney at a rally during Cheney's first congressional bid in 2016.

In the 2016 Republican Party presidential primaries, Hageman supported U.S. Senator Ted Cruz and criticized Donald Trump.

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.

Hageman later claimed that Cheney and others had deceived her into opposing Trump but dismissed her previous opposition to Trump as "ancient history".

In a statement to The New York Times, she called Trump "the greatest president of my lifetime."

Besides Trump, Hageman was endorsed by many other prominent Republicans, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

She also received campaign support from several Trump administration staffers, including Bill Stepien, Justin R. Clark, and Tim Murtaugh.

In January 2022, it was reported that Hageman's campaign had raised $1 million, to Cheney's $4.5 million.

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.

She defeated Cheney in the Republican primary in a landslide, 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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

She was quickly endorsed by Trump, who had personally interviewed several prospective primary challengers to Cheney.

Hageman and Cheney had been close political allies for several years.

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.

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".

In the general election, Hageman faced Democratic nominee and Native American activist Lynnette Grey Bull, who was Cheney's opponent in 2020.