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A clearer picture exists of the current and former National Guardsmen who will serve in the 119th Congress.
The results of the 2024 House and Senate races are also providing a better picture of the other service members and veterans who will become lawmakers in the next Congress.
The Republicans appear poised to reclaim the House with 11 races still uncalled as of Wednesday afternoon.
But with the Senate already under GOP control, a portrait of where the lawmakers with Guard or other military ties will serve this January has materialized.
Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J., will be joining the Senate in 2025 after campaigning for the seat vacated by former Sen. Bob Menendez, D-N.J.
Kim was first elected to the House in 2018, per The New Jersey Monitor, and served three terms as the representative for New Jersey’s 3rd congressional district.
He is also the current co-chair of the House National Guard and Reserve Caucus alongside Rep. Trent Kelly, R-Miss., a major general in the Mississippi Army Guard.
Kim is additionally a member of the House Armed Services Committee.
Sheri Biggs, R-S.C., will be the only female Air National Guardsman in Congress after emerging victorious on Nov. 5.
Biggs won South Carolina’s lone open seat and will represent the state’s 3rd congressional district, The Associated Press reported.
She will be South Carolina’s second Republican woman in Congress. Biggs is replacing Rep. Jeff Duncan, R-S.C., who retired after seven terms.
Biggs is a lieutenant colonel in the Air Guard, per her website, and the recipient of the Aerial Achievement Medal.
She was also a medical crew director on five combat missions and three combat support missions while operating in hostile environments for Operation FREEDOM’S SENTINEL.
Biggs added she was serving at the Air Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters in a January press release.
She previously served as the flight commander of the Mississippi Guard’s Nursing Services 183 Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron.
Biggs has been a NGAUS Active Life Member since June 2014.
"I am truly honored to have the opportunity to provide current and retired military a strong voice and advocate in Congress," she said.
"I will fight as hard as ever to ensure those who sacrifice and have sacrificed for our nation receive the honor, dignity, respect and care they deserve," Biggs added.
Rep. Zach Nunn, R-Iowa, won a second term representing his state’s 3rd congressional district on Election Day.
Nunn is a former Air Guardsman who has also served in the Air Force and Air Force Reserve.
Rep. Jeff Jackson, D-N.C., — an Army Guardsman who served in the 118th Congress alongside Nunn — will not be returning to the House.
Jackson — an Army Guard judge advocate general — was elected to be North Carolina’s next attorney general last week.
Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., lost his re-election bid to Republican candidate Tim Sheehy, a Navy SEAL.
Tester served as chairman of the Senate Veterans’ Affairs Committee and as chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Defense subcommittee.
He was also instrumental in passing the PACT Act in 2022, legislation which significantly expanded the healthcare and disability compensation that veterans who have been exposed to toxic substances during their service are entitled to.
Tester was additionally a co-recipient of the Harry S. Truman award — the association’s highest honor — in 2018 alongside former Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga.
Rep. Don Bacon, R-Neb., won another term representing Nebraska’s 2nd congressional district.
Bacon is a member of the House Armed Services Committee who is also a retired Air Force electronic warfare officer and navigator.
As of Wednesday, Republicans controlled 217 House seats to Democrats’ 207, with 218 needed to steer the lower chamber.
Republicans also controlled 53 out of 100 Senate seats as of Wednesday, compared to Democrats’ 47.
The most up to date 2024 election results are available here.
— By Mark Hensch
