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In a sit-down with WLWT, Husted shared his support for expanding domestic energy production to reduce fuel, electricity and consumer costs.
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Jon Husted, a Republican appointed to the US Senate from Ohio in 2025, faces Democrat Sherrod Brown in the 2026 special election for the rest of JD Vance's term.
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The Columbus Dispatch endorsement in Ohio's U.S. Senate race between Jon Husted and Sherrod Brown.
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Ohio poll finds Republicans slightly ahead but within margin of error in Senator, governor races
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Sen. Jon Husted (R-Ohio) is locked in a tight re-election battle with former Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown.
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- Born
- August 25, 1967
- Birthplace
- Royal Oak, Michigan
- Education
- Montpelier High School (1985)
University of Dayton (bachelor's and master's degrees)
Biography & Campaign Analysis
Background
Jon Allen Husted, born in the Detroit suburb of Royal Oak, Michigan, on August 25, 1967, was adopted as an infant by James and Judith Husted, who raised him as the eldest of three children in Montpelier, Ohio.
He graduated from Montpelier High School in 1985 and earned bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Dayton.
After a stint on a local campaign, he joined the staff of Montgomery County Commissioner Don Lucas and then served as vice president of business and economic development at the Dayton Area Chamber of Commerce.
Career
Husted won a five-way race for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2000 and served there from 2001 to 2009, as the chamber's 99th speaker from 2005 to 2009. He then held an Ohio Senate seat from 2009 to 2011.
Ohio voters elected him secretary of state in 2010 over Democrat Maryellen O'Shaughnessy and reelected him in 2014 over Democrat Nina Turner, and he held that office from 2011 to 2019; as the state's chief elections official he set uniform early voting hours across Ohio, and the Supreme Court of the United States sided with Ohio's voter roll maintenance procedures in Husted v.
Randolph Institute. Husted dropped his own campaign for governor in November 2017 to become the running mate of Attorney General Mike DeWine; the pair won in 2018 and 2022, and Husted was lieutenant governor between 2019 and 2025, leading the InnovateOhio initiative.
On January 17, 2025, DeWine appointed him to the Senate seat JD Vance vacated on becoming vice president, and he was sworn in on January 21, 2025.
2026 race
The special election on November 3, 2026, the first Senate special election in Ohio since 1954, will decide who serves out the term Vance won in 2022. Husted, a Republican, ran unopposed for his party's nomination in March 2026. His opponent is Democrat Sherrod Brown, a three-term senator from Ohio who lost his seat in 2024. Data center construction has become a campaign issue: as lieutenant governor, Husted backed tax breaks for such projects, a record Brown has criticized.