Morgan McGarvey is proud to represent the people of Kentucky’s Third Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Congressman Morgan McGarvey is a lifelong Louisvillian who, before being elected to Congress, served for a decade in the Kentucky State Senate, including four years as the Minority Leader of the Senate Democratic Caucus. He was elected to Congress in 2022 and currently serves on the Veterans Affairs and Small Business Committees. In his first term, Congressman McGarvey was the first Freshman Democrat to pass a bill out of the House – a bill supporting and protecting veterans’ earned educational benefits. He is a proud co-chair of the Bourbon Caucus and of the Ohio River Basin Caucus.
As he did in the State Senate, in Congress Congressman McGarvey fights for public education, organized labor, reproductive rights, and Kentucky’s working families – while building relationships with his colleagues in both parties to pass legislation that helps and protects Kentuckians every day. Across 10 years in Frankfort, then State Senator McGarvey wrote and passed 18 bills into law. Those include passing the first insurance mandate in Kentucky history to make sure that low-birthweight babies get the nutrients they need to survive, laws that protects victims of human trafficking and domestic violence, and a law that allowed Simmons College – Louisville’s only HBCU – to lower tuition costs for its students and re-start its teacher training program, putting more Black teachers into classrooms across Louisville and Kentucky.
Congressman McGarvey graduated from Manual High School in Louisville. He earned a B.A. in Journalism from the University of Missouri, where he met his wife Chris, and a J.D. from the University of Kentucky School of Law. Congressman McGarvey, Chris, and their three children – Clara, Wilson, and Greta – live in the Highlands of Louisville.
