US Midterms 2026
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Ann Wagner, a Republican who has represented Missouri's 2nd congressional district since 2013 and served as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg from 2005 to 2009, seeks reelection in 2026 against Democrat Fred Wellman.
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Ann Wagner was born Ann Louise Trousdale on September 13, 1962, and grew up in St. Louis, where her parents owned two carpet stores in which she worked growing up.
She attended Cor Jesu Academy, a private Catholic girls' school, and graduated from the University of Missouri in 1984 with a BSBA emphasizing logistics. She then held management positions at Hallmark Cards in Kansas City and Ralston Purina in St. Louis.
She is married to Ray Wagner Jr., a former director of the revenue departments of Missouri and Illinois; the couple live in Ballwin and have three children.
Wagner entered Republican politics in 1990, leading the party's work on Missouri's decennial redistricting, and in 1992 she was state director of George H. W. Bush's reelection campaign.
In 1999 she became the first woman to chair the Missouri Republican Party, a post she held until 2005, and from 2001 to 2005 she was also co-chair of the Republican National Committee. President George W. Bush nominated her as U.S. ambassador to Luxembourg in 2005, and she served there until 2009.
After returning, she chaired Roy Blunt's 2010 U.S. Senate campaign and ran for RNC chair in 2011, conceding to Reince Priebus after the sixth round.
When incumbent Todd Akin ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012, Wagner won the four-way Republican primary for the 2nd district with 66% of the vote and carried the general election by 23 points. She has been reelected since then, including a 51.2% win over Cort VanOstran in 2018. In the 119th Congress she sits on the Committee on Financial Services, where she chairs the Subcommittee on Capital Markets, and on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
Ann Wagner is running for another term in the 2nd district, which is anchored by the southern and western suburbs of St. Louis County and also includes Franklin County. She won the Republican primary with 73.8% of the vote against four challengers, the closest of whom, entrepreneur Peter Pfeifer, received 8.0%. In the general election on November 3, 2026, she faces Democrat Fred Wellman, a podcast host, and Libertarian Brandon Coulter Daugherty.
