Harriet Hageman

Incumbent Wyoming Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney was defeated in 2022 after she broke from her party to criticize former President Donald Trump following the Jan. 6 insurrection. She lost the race for Wyoming's at-large congressional district to Harriet Hageman, an attorney who supported Cheney in her race for the House in 2016. Hageman, whose father Jim Hageman was a Wyoming state representative for more than 20 years, first joined the political sphere when she unsuccessfully ran for governor in 2018. Hageman, a Wyoming native, received both her undergraduate degree and law degree from the University of Wyoming. She began her career as a law clerk for federal appeals Judge James Barrett, and went on to practice law privately in Wyoming, Colorado and Nebraska.