Sherrod Brown is running for U.S. Senate in Ohio in 2026. He won his first elected office to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1974. He later served as Ohio secretary of state and was elected to Congress in 1992. He first joined the U.S. Senate in 2007 and lost in 2024.
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