Guy Reschenthaler

Biography & Campaign Analysis

Background

Guy Reschenthaler was born in Pittsburgh on April 17, 1983, and was raised in the city's South Hills, graduating from Thomas Jefferson High School in 2001. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, in 2004 and a Juris Doctor from Duquesne University School of Law in 2007. At Duquesne he founded the Military Law Society chapter and interned at the U.S. District Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

Career

After law school, Reschenthaler was commissioned in the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and deployed to Baghdad, Iraq, in 2009.

In 2010 he was one of three attorneys who defended a Navy SEAL accused of covering up an assault on Ahmad Hashim Abd al-Isawi while al-Isawi was in custody, and the SEALs charged were acquitted.

He left the Navy in 2012, practiced law in Pittsburgh and was elected magisterial district judge in the South Hills in 2013.

Following the resignation of State Senator Matt Smith, he won a 2015 special election for the 37th Pennsylvania Senate district, defeating Democrat Heather Arnet, and was sworn in on November 24, 2015.

Reschenthaler sought the Republican nomination in the 2018 special election for the 18th congressional district but lost at the party conference to Rick Saccone.

After a court threw out the state's congressional map, he defeated Saccone in the primary for the reconfigured 14th district with 55.4% of the vote and won the general election against businesswoman Bibiana Boerio with 58%. He was re-elected in 2020 with 64.7% and in 2024 with 66.6%.

In the House he serves on the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on Rules, and he is the Republican chief deputy whip in the 119th Congress.

2026 race

Guy Reschenthaler is the Republican incumbent in Pennsylvania's 14th congressional district, which is based in Southwest Pennsylvania and includes all of Washington, Greene and Fayette counties, most of Indiana and Somerset counties, and parts of Westmoreland County.

Re-elected with 66.6% of the vote in 2024, he is again the Republican nominee in 2026. In the general election on November 3, 2026, Reschenthaler faces Democrat Alan Bradstock, a retired FBI agent who ran unopposed in the Democratic primary with 48,774 votes.