Kevin Hern

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Kevin Ray Hern (born December 4, 1961) is an American politician and businessman who is the United States senator-elect from Oklahoma. A member of the Republican Party, he has been a member of the United States House of Representatives for Oklahoma's 1st congressional district since 2018. Born in Missouri and raised in Pope County, Arkansas, Hern graduated from Arkansas Tech University in 1986 and briefly attended the Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1997 he bought his first McDonald's franchise and in 1999 he earned his MBA degree from the University of Arkansas, Little Rock. After moving to Oklahoma in 1999, Hern expanded his McDonald's franchises, eventually owning 18 franchises in the Tulsa metropolitan area. Hern was first elected to Congress in 2018, and was re-elected in 2020, 2022, and 2024. He became the chair of the Republican Study Committee, a conservative group of Republicans, in 2023. In the January 2023 election for Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, Hern...

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