- OFFICE
- Senate
- STATE
- Tennessee
- PARTY
- REPUBLICAN PARTY
- STATUS
- Incumbent
- ELECTION
- 2026-11-03
The record (2)
FEC-recorded money between Second Amendment committees and this candidate, and recorded floor votes on gun bills, each with its official source. Community sentiment below never moves this grade.
This letter rests on a thin record. The grade math already pulls a light record toward the middle, but 2 actions are still far less to go on than a full voting history. Read it as a first data point, not a settled verdict. Know of something sourced that belongs here? Add it to the record.
- 2026-06-19PRORecorded money Accepted $2,500 from NRA Political Victory FundFEC Schedule B, committee C00053553, transaction SB23.34, 2026 cycle.
- 2022-06-23PRORecorded vote Voted NO on S 2938 (117th), Bipartisan Safer Communities ActOfficial Senate roll call 242.
Contact Bill Hagerty
- DISTRICT · L. Clure Morton Federal Building 9 East Broad Street 3rd Floor · Cookeville, TN · 38503
- CAMPAIGN · Post Office Box 50430 · Nashville, TN · 37205
Interest-group scorecards (3)
How advocacy groups on both sides score this candidate, reprinted as published. These are the groups’ judgments, not ours, and they never enter the grade above.
3 earlier ratings
- 2021-2022100%
- 202192%
- 202092%
About this group
Gun Owners of America (GOA) is a non-profit lobbying organization formed in 1975 to preserve and defend the Second Amendment rights of gun owners. GOA sees firearms ownership as a freedom issue.
The group’s description of itself, reprinted as published.
1 earlier rating
- 2016-202292%
About this group
The NRA Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF) is NRA's political action committee. The NRA-PVF ranks political candidates - irrespective of party affiliation - based on voting records, public statements and their responses to an NRA-PVF questionnaire. NRA relies on a very simple premise: when provided with the facts, the nation's elected officials will recognize that "gun control" schemes are an infringement on the Second Amendment and a proven failure in fighting crime. The importance of this premise lies in the knowledge that, as one U.S. Congressman put it: "The gun lobby is people."
The group’s description of itself, reprinted as published.
About this group
To promote, protect and preserve hunting and the shooting sports. Formed in 1961, NSSF has a membership of more than 12,000 manufacturers, distributors, firearms retailers, shooting ranges, sportsmen's organizations and publishers.
The group’s description of itself, reprinted as published.
Background
- Degree, Economics, Vanderbilt University
- JD, Vanderbilt University Law School
- Board of Directors, R.J. O'Brien
- Former Chief Executive Officer, ALAM Limited
- Former Employee, Boston Consulting Group
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- Former Executive Position, CyMed
- Former Executive Position, Sound Advice
- Former Executive Position, Powerway Incorporated
- Former Executive Position, NEW Customer Services Company
- Former Staff, NASA Administrator
- Founder, Hagerty Paterson, Limited Liability Company, Merchant Bank/Private Equity Firm, leave
- Former Staff, Vice President of the United States
- Board of Directors, Houghton, Mifflin Harcourt
- Transition Planning Team, John McCain's Presidential Campaign, 2008
- Commissioner of Economic and Community Development, State of Tennessee, 2011-present
- Venture Capital/Private Equity Investor, Trident Capital, Limited Partnership, 1993-1994
- Director, Pinnacle Bank, 2015-2017
- Advisory Board Member, Hall Capital, 2016-2017
- White House Fellow, White House Staff, 1991-1993
- Director, Governance Committee Chair, R.J. OBrien, 2010-2017
- Director, RenaissanceRe, 2015-2017
- Co-Founder, Hagerty Peterson & Company, Limited Liability Company, 1997-2017
- Director, Audit Committee Member, Ryman Hospitality Properties, 2016-2017
- Ambassador to Japan, United States Department of State, 2017-2019
- Senator, United States Senate, Tennessee, 2021-present
- Candidate, United States Senate, Tennessee, 2020, 2026
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