PERSON: John James

U.S. House of Representatives

Member of Congress

John Edward James (born June 8, 1981) is an American businessman, combat veteran, and politician serving as the U.S. representative from Michigan’s 10th congressional district since 2023. A member of the Republican Party, he was the party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in 2018 and 2020.

In 2022, James declared his candidacy in Michigan’s redrawn 10th congressional district. He defeated Democratic nominee Carl Marlinga by a narrow margin.

James was born in Southfield, Michigan, in 1981 and grew up Baptist in the Palmer Woods neighborhood of Detroit. He graduated from the Catholic Brother Rice High School in 1999. He graduated from the United States Military Academy (West Point) in 2004, and served eight years in the Army, participating in multiple tours of duty in Operation Iraqi Freedom as an AH-64 Apache pilot. Two of his West Point classmates are fellow Congressmen Wesley Hunt and Pat Ryan. He attended the Ranger School and became Ranger-tabbed as a Captain.

James received a master’s degree in supply chain management from Penn State University’s Smeal College of Business and an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business.

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