Joe Manchin

Extracted Attributes

• Awards

  Time 100

• Gender

  male

• Spouse

  Gayle Conelly

• Hobbies

  Avid pilot, outdoorsman, hunter, angler, motorcyclist

• Children

  Heather Manchin, Joseph Manchin IV, Brooke Manchin

• Religion

  Roman Catholic

• Full Name

  Joseph Anthony Manchin III

• Alma Mater

  West Virginia University (B.A., 1970)

• Occupation

  Businessman, Politician

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date of Birth

  1947-08-24

• Grandchildren

  Joseph V, Sophie, Kelsey, Madeline, Chloe, Jack, Carly, Vivian

• Place of Birth

  Farmington, West Virginia, United States

• Political Stance

  Centrist, Moderate, Conservative Democrat

• Maternal Ancestry

  Czechoslovak

• Paternal Ancestry

  Italian (from San Giovanni in Fiore, Calabria)

• Company Co-founded

  Enersystems (Coal brokerage company)

• Political Affiliation (from 2024)

  Independent

• Political Affiliation (until 2024)

  Democratic Party

Timeline

• Born Joseph Anthony Manchin III in Farmington, West Virginia. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Wikidata)

  1947-08-24

• Graduated with a B.A. from West Virginia University. (Source: Web Search Results, Wikidata)

  1970

• Elected to the West Virginia House of Delegates. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1982

• Elected to the West Virginia state Senate, serving until 1996. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1986

• Unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination. (Source: Web Search Results)

  1996

• Elected West Virginia Secretary of State. (Source: Web Search Results)

  2000

• Began serving as the 27th Secretary of State of West Virginia, serving until 2005. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2001

• Elected Governor of West Virginia by a large margin. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2004

• Began serving as the 34th Governor of West Virginia, serving until 2010. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2005

• Re-elected Governor of West Virginia by an even larger margin. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2008

• Voted against cloture for the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2010

• Sworn into the United States Senate to fill the seat vacated by the late Senator Robert C. Byrd. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, Web Search Results)

  2010-11-15

• Elected to a full term in the U.S. Senate with 60.6% of the vote. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2012

• Became West Virginia's only congressional Democrat. (Source: Wikipedia)

  2015

• Voted to remove federal funding for Planned Parenthood. (Source: DBPedia)

  2015

• Voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2017

• Voted to preserve funding for Planned Parenthood. (Source: DBPedia)

  2017

• Won a second term in the U.S. Senate with 49.6% of the vote. (Source: Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2018

• Became a key swing vote in the Senate after the elections, due to the 50-50 partisan split. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  2020

• Announced he would not run for re-election to the U.S. Senate. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2023-11-09

• Left the Democratic Party to become an independent. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2024

• Retired from the United States Senate. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia)

  2025

• Protected the filibuster in the United States Senate alongside Senator Kyrsten Sinema. (Source: Related Documents)

  During Senate Tenure

• Worked on the Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill with moderate Republican Senators like Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and Mitt Romney. (Source: Related Documents)

  During Senate Tenure

• Voted to convict Donald Trump in both of his impeachment trials. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  During Senate Tenure

• Voted against Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court. (Source: Wikipedia)

  During Senate Tenure

• Voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court. (Source: Wikipedia)

  During Senate Tenure

• Was a Senate sponsor of the Inflation Reduction Act. (Source: Wikipedia)

  During Senate Tenure

• Opposed President Joe Biden's Freedom to Vote Act and Build Back Better Act. (Source: Wikipedia)

  During Senate Tenure

• Played a pivotal role in blocking President Joe Biden's signature Big Beautiful Bill (BBB) and the earlier American Rescue Plan. (Source: Related Documents)

  During Senate Tenure

• Voted against repeated attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act. (Source: Summary, Wikipedia, DBPedia)

  During Senate Tenure

Joe Manchin

Joseph Anthony Manchin III ( MAN-chin; born August 24, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia from 2010 to 2025. From 2015 until he registered as an independent in 2024, he was West Virginia's only congressional Democrat. Manchin served from 2001 to 2005 as the 27th secretary of state of West Virginia and from 2005 to 2010 as the 34th governor of West Virginia. Before entering politics, he co-founded and was president of Enersystems, his family-owned and operated coal brokerage company. Manchin won the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election by a large margin and was reelected by an even larger margin in 2008. He won the 2010 special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by incumbent Democrat Robert Byrd's death with 53.5% of the vote, and in 2012 was elected to a full term with 60.6% of the vote. Manchin won a second term in 2018 with 49.6% of the vote. In all his Senate elections, he drastically outperformed Democratic presidential nominees in the state. Manchin represented the most Republican-leaning constituency of any Democrat or independent in Congress during his tenure. Manchin has called himself a "centrist, moderate, conservative Democrat" and was generally regarded as the Senate Democratic caucus's most centrist member. He opposed President Barack Obama's energy policies, including reductions and restrictions on coal mining; voted against cloture for the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 (not voting on the bill itself); supported President Donald Trump's border wall and immigration policies; and voted to confirm most of Trump's cabinet and judicial appointees, including Justices Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh and opposed Biden's Freedom to Vote Act and Build Back Better Act instead supporting the Inflation Reduction Act. On the other hand, Manchin voted against repeated attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials, voted against Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, voted to confirm Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, and was a Senate sponsor of the Inflation Reduction Act. He is among the more non-interventionist members of the Democratic caucus, having repeatedly called for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and opposed most military interventions in Syria. After the 2020 elections, Manchin became a key swing vote in the Senate, which was split 50–50 between Democrats and Republicans but controlled by Democrats because Vice President Kamala Harris was the tiebreaker. Since passing legislation with only Democratic support required Manchin's vote, he wielded a large influence in the 117th Congress. During the 118th Congress, he was again considered a key swing vote in the Senate, alongside Kyrsten Sinema. On November 9, 2023, Manchin announced that he would not run for reelection. In 2024, he left the Democratic Party to become an independent, and later clarified that he would not run for any office, ending speculation that he might be a candidate in the 2024 United States presidential election. As of 2025, Manchin is the most recent Democrat to hold non-judicial statewide office in West Virginia, and the most recent Democrat to serve the state in Congress.

Web Search Results

• Joe Manchin - Wikipedia

  Joseph Anthony Manchin III (/ˈmæntʃɪn/ MAN-chin; born August 24, 1947) is an American businessman and retired politician who served as a United States senator from West Virginia from 2010 to 2025. From 2015 until he registered as an independent in 2024, he was West Virginia's only congressional Democrat "Democratic Party (United States)"). Manchin served from 2001 to 2005 as the 27th secretary of state of West Virginia and from 2005 to 2010 as the 34th governor of West Virginia. Before entering [...] Joseph Anthony Manchin III was born on August 24, 1947, in Farmington, West Virginia, a small coal mining town. He is the second of five children of Mary O. (née Gouzd) and John Manchin. The name "Manchin" was derived from the Italian name "Mancina". His father was of Italian descent, and his paternal grandparents emigrated to the United States from the town of San Giovanni in Fiore, in Calabria. Manchin's maternal grandparents were Czechoslovak immigrants. [...] Manchin is a moderate to conservative, Democrat. He has called himself a "centrist, moderate conservative Democrat" and "fiscally responsible and socially compassionate." CBS News has called him "a rifle-brandishing moderate" who is "about as centrist as a senator can get." The American Conservative Union gave him a 25% lifetime conservative rating and the progressive PAC Americans for Democratic Action gave him a 35% liberal quotient in 2016. In February 2018, a Congressional Quarterly study

• Joe Manchin | Political Party, Biography, & Facts - Britannica

  Joe Manchin (born August 24, 1947, Farmington, West Virginia, U.S.) is an American politician who represented West Virginia as a Democrat to the U.S. Senate (2010–25). He previously served as governor of that state (2005–10). In 2023 Manchin announced that he would not seek another term in the Senate, and the following year he formally switched his party affiliation to Independent. In November 2024 his seat was won by Republican Jim Justice. [...] Manchin entered electoral politics in 1982, when he successfully ran for the West Virginia House of Delegates. After serving there for four years, he became a member of the state’s Senate (1986–96). Following an unsuccessful bid for the governorship (1996), Manchin was elected West Virginia’s secretary of state in 2000. He then ran for governor in 2004, and that time he was elected. He served from 2005 to 2010, when he won a special election to complete the term of U.S. Sen. Robert Byrd, who [...] Last updated •History Quick Facts In full: : Joseph Manchin III Born: : August 24, 1947, Farmington, West Virginia, U.S. (age 78) Title / Office: : United States Senate (2010-), United States : governor (2005-2010), West Virginia Political Affiliation: : Democratic Party See all related content

• [PDF] JOE MANCHIN (D-WV)

  Sen. Manchin is an avid pilot, outdoorsman, hunter, angler and motorcyclist. He has been married for more than four decades to the former Gayle Conelly of Beckley. They have three children- Heather, Joseph IV and Brooke, and are the proud grandparents of Joseph V, Sophie, Kelsey, Madeline, Chloe, Jack, Carly and Vivian. [...] Updated April 20, 2015 BIO FROM REPRESENTATIVE'S WEBSITE From the Senator's Website U.S. Senator Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) was sworn into the United States Senate on November 15, 2010 to fill the seat left vacant by the late Senator Robert C. Byrd. For Senator Manchin, serving as West Virginia's Senator is truly an honor and a privilege. [...] He was first elected to public office in 1982 to serve in the West Virginia House of Delegates. After four years, he was elected to the state Senate, where he served until 1997. He lost a bid for governor in 1996, though he had backing from businesses, the NRA and West Virginians for Life. He was elected West Virginia secretary of state in 2000 before becoming governor in 2005. He won re-election in 2008 in a landslide.

• Joe Manchin - e-WV

  U.S. Senator Term: 2010-2025 Party: Democrat (2010-2024); independent (2024-2025) Preceded by: Carte Goodwin Succeeded by: Jim Justice Born: August 24, 1947, in Fairmont Senator Joseph "Joe" Anthony Manchin III was born August 24, 1947, in Fairmont. He grew up in the Marion County town of Farmington, where he worked in his grandfather's store, Manchin Grocery, and his father's furniture store. [...] Joe Manchin was the first Roman Catholic to be elected governor of West Virginia and the first of Italian descent. He is the scion of a large and energetic Marion County family, active in business, the professions, and politics. For many years his uncle, A. James Manchin, was among the state's best-known politicians, serving as secretary of state and state treasurer and himself once considered gubernatorial material. — Authored by Jim Wallace ## Related Articles [...] As both a lawmaker and a candidate for higher office, Joe Manchin consistently supported anti-abortion legislation, which put him at odds with official abortion rights positions of the Democratic Party. He also supported legislation that drew opposition from consumer advocates, such as a bill that would have required the use of manufacturers' parts in auto repairs rather than less expensive "aftermarket" parts. Despite Manchin's generally conservative credentials, he sometimes opposed attempts

• MANCHIN, Joe, III - Bioguide Search

  MANCHIN, Joe, III,a Senator from West Virginia; born August 24, 1947, in Farmington, Marion County, West Virginia; graduated Farmington High School, Farmington, WV, 1965; B.A., West Virginia University, 1970; businessman; member of the West Virginia house of delegates 1982-1986; member of the West Virginia state senate 1986-1996; unsuccessful candidate for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination in 1996; Secretary of State, West Virginia 2000-2004; elected governor of West Virginia in 2004 and

• Award

  Time 100

• Image

  

• Gender

  male

• Educated At

  West Virginia University

• Instance Of

  Q5

• Occupation

  businessperson

• Citizenship

  United States

• Date Of Birth

  8/24/1947

• Place Of Birth

  Farmington

Joseph Manchin III (born August 24, 1947) is an American politician and businessman serving as the senior United States senator from West Virginia, a seat he has held since 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Manchin was the 34th governor of West Virginia from 2005 to 2010 and the 27th secretary of state of West Virginia from 2001 to 2005. After becoming a senator in 2010, he became the state's senior U.S. senator when Jay Rockefeller retired in 2015. Before entering politics, Manchin helped found and was the president of Enersystems, a coal brokerage company his family owns and operates. Manchin won the 2004 West Virginia gubernatorial election by a large margin and was reelected by an even larger margin in 2008. He won the 2010 special election to fill the Senate seat vacated by incumbent Democrat Robert Byrd's death with 53% of the vote, and in 2012 was elected to a full term with 61% of the vote. Manchin won a second term in 2018 with just under 50% of the vote. In both elections, he over-performed the Democratic presidential ticket by more than 40 percentage points. Since 2021, Manchin has been the only Democrat holding statewide or congressional office in West Virginia, and represents what is, by a large margin, the most Republican-leaning constituency of any Democrat in congress. Manchin has called himself a "centrist, moderate, conservative Democrat" and is generally cited as the most conservative Democrat in the Senate. He is known for working with Republicans on issues such as abortion, immigration, energy policy, and gun control. Manchin opposed President Barack Obama's energy policies, including reductions and restrictions on coal mining, voted against cloture for the Don't Ask, Don't Tell Repeal Act of 2010 (not voting on the bill itself), voted to remove federal funding for Planned Parenthood in 2015, supported President Donald Trump's border wall and immigration policies, and voted to confirm most of Trump's cabinet and judicial appointees, including Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh. He opposes many progressive priorities, such as Medicare For All, the Green New Deal, abolishing the filibuster, expanding the Supreme Court, and defunding the police. Manchin has also voted against repeated attempts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, voted to preserve funding for Planned Parenthood in 2017, voted against the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017, and voted to convict Trump in both of his impeachment trials. He is among the more non-interventionist members of the Democratic caucus, having repeatedly called for the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan and opposed most military interventions in Syria. After the 2020 elections, Manchin became the "most important swing vote" in the Senate, which is split 50–50 between Democrats and Republicans, but controlled by Democrats because Vice President Kamala Harris is the tiebreaker. Since passing legislation with only Democratic support requires Manchin's vote, he wields a large influence in the 117th Congress.