Seth Moulton (Democratic Party) is a member of the U.S. House, representing Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2015. His current term ends on January 3, 2025.
Moulton (Democratic Party) is running for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Massachusetts' 6th Congressional District. He declared candidacy for the 2024 election.
At the start of the 116th Congress, he was a member of the House Committee on the Budget and House Committee on Armed Services.
Before serving in Congress, he was a member of the United States Marine Corps. He was among the first groups of American soldiers to reach Baghdad during the 2003 invasion.
See Moulton's presidential campaign overview and Presidential candidates, 2020, for more information about the 2020 presidential election.
Moulton was born in 1978 and grew up in Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, where he earned his bachelor's degree in physics in 2001. After graduating, he joined the Marine Corps and served four tours in Iraq between 2002 and 2008. Moulton again enrolled at Harvard University after completing his military service, earning an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and an M.P.A. from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 2011.
From 2011 to 2013, Moulton worked as managing director of Texas Central Railway, a public-private partnership developing a high-speed rail project, in Dallas, Texas. He was co-founder and president of Eastern Healthcare Partners, a startup aimed at addressing obesity in the U.S. and Middle East, in 2013.
Moulton defeated nine-term incumbent Rep. John Tierney and three other candidates in the 2014 Democratic primary to represent Massachusetts' 6th District in the U.S. House, and he went on the win the general election with 54 percent of the vote. He was re-elected in 2016 and 2018.
In 2018, Moulton was one of the Democratic members of the U.S. House that voted against Nancy Pelosi's selection as speaker of the House, and his campaigns have regularly called for new leadership both within the party and in Washington.
