Raymond McKay

Raymond McKay earned a bachelor's degree in political science and government from Cameron University in 1983 and served in the U.S. Army from 1981 to 1992 as a Pershing electronic material specialist. From 1992 to 2019 he worked for the City of Warwick, Rhode Island, as its network and telecommunications manager, and he has worked in information technology since 2019. His first campaign was for the Rhode Island Senate in 1998. He was vice chair of the Warwick Republican City Committee in 2000, a founding member of the Rhode Island chapter of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies in 2001, and president of the Rhode Island Republican Assembly from 2005. He launched a campaign for the seat held by Sheldon Whitehouse in May 2023 and was a candidate in the September 2024 Republican primary for U.S. Senate. In 2026 he was unopposed in the September 9 Republican primary and faces Democratic Senator Jack Reed, who is seeking a sixth term, on November 3.