Guy Reschenthaler is the incumbent Republican U.S. Representative for Pennsylvania's 14th District, serving since January 2019. A former Navy Judge Advocate General (JAG) Corps attorney who deployed to Iraq, he later served as a magisterial district judge and a Pennsylvania state senator before winning his House seat. In the 119th Congress he is House Republican Chief Deputy Whip and a member of the Appropriations Committee.[1][2][3]
Reschenthaler was born in Pittsburgh in 1983, and his House website says he is the son of former teachers and was raised in southwestern Pennsylvania.[2][3] He graduated from Penn State, The Behrend College (B.A., 2004, per Wikipedia) and from Duquesne University School of Law (J.D., 2007, per Wikipedia).[2][3]
After law school he joined the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps and volunteered for duty in Iraq.[1][2] According to his House website, he prosecuted nearly 100 terrorists in Baghdad, defended a Navy SEAL in a case related to the capture of the "Butcher of Fallujah," and later served as Officer in Charge of the Naval Legal Service Office for Texas and Oklahoma.[1][2] He then returned to southwestern Pennsylvania, where he practiced law and, per his House website, was a partner in a real estate brokerage and related businesses employing roughly a dozen people.[2]
Reschenthaler was elected Magisterial District Judge in 2013, winning the nomination of both parties, and served in that role from 2013 to 2015.[1][2] In 2015 he was elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate to represent the 37th District (parts of Allegheny and Washington counties), and he served until 2019.[1][2]
He was elected to the U.S. House in 2018 and sworn in for a fourth term on January 3, 2025.[2][4] He became House Republican Chief Deputy Whip in January 2023 and, in the 118th Congress (2023–2024), also sat on Appropriations, per Ballotpedia.[1][3] His House website says he serves on the Appropriations Committee, including its Energy and Water Development, Interior and Environment, and National Security, Department of State subcommittees.[2][4]
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21.