PERSON: Bernie Moreno

Senator

Bernardo Moreno (/məriːnoʊ/ mər-EE-noh; born February 14, 1967) is a Colombian-born American politician and businessman serving since 2025 as the senior United States senator from Ohio. He is a member of the Republican Party.

Moreno was born in Colombia to a family that soon immigrated to the United States, where he grew up in Florida. After attending the University of Michigan, he began a career in business. In 2005 he moved to Ohio, where he ran several car dealerships, mostly in Greater Cleveland, before becoming involved in blockchain companies in the late 2010s. He previously ran for Senate in 2022, but withdrew before the Republican primary. In 2024, Moreno defeated three-term incumbent Democratic senator Sherrod Brown. He became Ohio’s junior senator on January 3, 2025, and became Ohio’s senior senator a week later after JD Vance resigned to become vice president of the United States.

He is the first Hispanic American senator from Ohio, as well as one of the first two Colombian American U.S. senators, along with Ruben Gallego of Arizona.

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