Sherrod Brown

Sherrod Brown was born November 9, 1952 in Mansfield, Ohio. He earned a B.A. from Yale University in 1974 and master's degrees from Ohio State University in education (1979) and public administration (1981). He served in the Ohio House from 1975 to 1983 and as Ohio secretary of state from 1983 to 1991. He served in the U.S. House from 1993 to 2007. He won election to the U.S. Senate in 2006 and held the seat from 2007, chairing the Banking Committee, until losing his bid for a fourth term to Republican Bernie Moreno in 2024. In August 2025 he announced a campaign for Ohio's other Senate seat, vacated by JD Vance and filled by the appointment of Jon Husted in January 2025. Brown won the May 5, 2026 Democratic primary over Ron Kincaid. The November 3, 2026 special election, for the remainder of the term through 2028, pits him against Husted; Libertarian Bill Redpath and independents Gregory Levy and Stephen Faris are also on the ballot.