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Jerry Moran

Personal data
Date of birthMay 29, 1954(age 61)
Place of birthGreat Bend, Kansas
Political partyRepublican
SpouseRobba Moran
ResidenceHays, Kansas
Alma materUniversity of Kansas (B.A.) & (J.D.)
Occupationattorney, bank executive, college professor
ReligionMethodist
Assumed officeJanuary 3, 2011
Serving with Pat Roberts
Preceded bySam Brownback
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 1st district
In officeJanuary 3, 1997 - January 3, 2011
Succeeded byTim Huelskamp
Preceded byPat Roberts

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Jerry Moran (born May 29, 1954) is the junior U.S. Senator from Kansas and a member of the Republican Party. Previously, he served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, representing .

Raised in Plainville, Kansas, Moran graduated from the University of Kansas and the University of Kansas School of Law. He worked in private law and served as the state special assistant attorney general (1982 � 85) and deputy attorney of Rooks County (1987 � 95). He served in the Kansas Senate (1989 � 1997), and was majority leader for his last two years. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1996 and served six terms with little electoral opposition. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in a landslide in 2010. He is the ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government and has a strongly conservative voting record.


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