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Kevin McCarthy
Official portrait, 2023

55th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
In office January 7, 2023^[a] \u2013 October 3, 2023
Preceded by	Nancy Pelosi
Succeeded by	Mike Johnson^[b]
House Minority Leader
In office January 3, 2019 \u2013 January 3, 2023
Whip	Steve Scalise
Preceded by	Nancy Pelosi
Succeeded by	Hakeem Jeffries
Leader of the House Republican Conference
In office January 3, 2019 \u2013 October 3, 2023
Deputy	Steve Scalise
Preceded by	Paul Ryan
Succeeded by	Mike Johnson
House Majority Leader
In office August 1, 2014 \u2013 January 3, 2019
Speaker	John Boehner Paul Ryan
Preceded by	Eric Cantor
Succeeded by	Steny Hoyer
House Majority Whip
In office January 3, 2011 \u2013 August 1, 2014
Speaker	John Boehner
Preceded by	Jim Clyburn
Succeeded by	Steve Scalise
House Republican Chief Deputy Whip
In office January 3, 2009 \u2013 January 3, 2011
Leader	John Boehner
Preceded by	Eric Cantor
Succeeded by	Peter Roskam
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California
In office January 3, 2007 \u2013 December 31, 2023
Preceded by	Bill Thomas
Succeeded by	Vince Fong
Constituency	22nd district (2007\u20132013) 23rd district (2013\u20132023) 20th district (2023)
Minority Leader of the California Assembly
In office January 5, 2004 \u2013 April 17, 2006
Preceded by	Dave Cox
Succeeded by	George Plescia
Member of the California State Assembly from the 32nd district
In office December 2, 2002 \u2013 November 30, 2006
Preceded by	Roy Ashburn
Succeeded by	Jean Fuller
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Personal details
Born	Kevin Owen McCarthy (1965-01-26) January 26, 1965 (age 60) Bakersfield, California, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	\n Judy Wages (m. 1992)
Children	2
Education	California State University, Bakersfield (BS, MBA)
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Kevin Owen McCarthy (born January 26, 1965) is an American politician who served as the 55th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from January to October 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was the U.S. representative for California's 20th congressional district from 2007 until his resignation in 2023.\n

McCarthy graduated from California State University, Bakersfield. He served two terms as a member of the California State Assembly before being elected to the U.S. House in 2006. McCarthy served as the House Republican chief deputy whip from 2009 to 2011 and as House majority whip from 2011 to 2014.^[1]^[2] After House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's reelection loss in the 2014 Republican primary, McCarthy was elected majority leader under speaker John Boehner. He retained that position during Paul Ryan's speakership. In 2019, after Ryan retired, McCarthy was elected House Minority Leader.^[3]\n

As Minority Leader, McCarthy supported Donald Trump's claim of election fraud after Joe Biden won the 2020 U.S. presidential election and initially participated in efforts to overturn the results. After the U.S. Capitol was stormed during the 2021 electoral vote count, McCarthy reversed his previous comments on voter fraud in the election and blamed Trump for the riot.^[4]^[5]^[6]^[7] By 2022, he had publicly reconciled with Trump.^[8]^[9] McCarthy led the House Republicans through the 2022 elections, in which they gained a slimmer-than-expected majority.\n

McCarthy was the Republican nominee for speaker in January 2023, but did not win the speakership on the first attempt, only securing the office after days of successive votes and negotiations within his own party as well as a historic 15 different ballots.^[10]^[11]^[12] As Speaker, McCarthy dealt with a standoff between the House Republican conference and Biden administration that led to the 2023 debt-ceiling crisis and what would have been a first-ever national default. To resolve the crisis, the parties negotiated the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, which passed with bipartisan support in Congress before Biden signed it into law.^[13]\n

In September 2023, McCarthy relied on Democrats to help pass a bipartisan continuing resolution to avert a government shutdown. As a result, Republican congressman Matt Gaetz filed a motion to vacate against McCarthy.^[14] Following a largely unprecedented House floor debate between members of the majority party, McCarthy was voted out as speaker on October 3, 2023.^[15] His tenure was the third-shortest for a Speaker of the House in United States history,^[16]^[c] and he became the first speaker to ever be removed from the role during a legislative session.^[17]^[18]^[19] McCarthy resigned as a member of the House at the end of that year.^[20]\n

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House majority whip

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Unsuccessful 2015 candidacy for speaker of the House

House minority leader

Speaker of the House

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Post-speakership and resignation from Congress

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