Hickenlooper, John
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John Wright Hickenlooper Jr. ( HIK-ən-loop-ər; born February 7, 1952) is an American politician, geologist, and businessman serving as the junior United States senator from Colorado since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 42nd governor of Colorado from 2011 to 2019 and as the 43rd mayor of Denver from 2003 to 2011. Born in Narberth, Pennsylvania, Hickenlooper is a graduate of Wesleyan University. After a career as a petroleum geologist, in 1988 he co-founded the Wynkoop Brewing Company, one of the first brewpubs in the U.S. Hickenlooper was elected the 43rd mayor of Denver in 2003, serving two terms. In 2005, TIME named him one of America's five best big-city mayors. After incumbent governor Bill Ritter said that he would not seek reelection, Hickenlooper announced his intention to run for the Democratic nomination in January 2010. He won an uncontested primary and faced Constitution Party nominee Tom Tancredo and Republican Party nominee Dan Maes in the general election. Hickenlooper won with 51% of the vote and was reelected in 2014, defeating Republican Bob Beauprez. As governor, he introduced universal background checks and banned high-capacity magazines in the wake of the 2012 Aurora, Colorado, shooting. He expanded Medicaid under the provisions of the Affordable Care Act, halving the rate of uninsured people in the state. Having initially opposed marijuana legalization, he has gradually come to support it. He sought the Democratic nomination for U.S. president in 2019 but dropped out before primaries were held. He subsequently ran for the U.S. Senate, winning the Democratic nomination and the general election, defeating incumbent Republican Cory Gardner. At 68, Hickenlooper became the oldest first-term senator to represent Colorado.
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Core attributes
- Current office
- Senator
- Office level
- federal
- Canonical name
- Hickenlooper, John
- First name
- John
- Last name
- Hickenlooper
- Occupation
- —
- Education
- —
- Year of birth
- —
Campaign finance
Money at a glance
2026 cycle
- Coverage
- 2025-01-01 to 2026-12-31
- Source
- Derived from itemized transactions
- Outside spending
- Outside spending details
- Total receipts
- $8,119,380.12
- Total disbursements
- $7,471,142.64
- Cash on hand
- Not available
- Net self-funded
- Not available
- Debts owed by the committee
- Not available
Receipt components disclose $8,119,380.12 in total receipts for the 2026 cycle.
Receipt source components are not loaded yet.
Sources: FEC candidate and committee summaries
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| Label | Values |
|---|
Fundraising detail
Itemized totals do not match committee summary totals, so this view uses itemized-only contribution facts.
- Small-dollar share
- Small-dollar share unavailable
- Small-dollar amount
- Committee summary totals are not available yet.
- Coverage
- 2025-01-01 to 2026-12-31
Individual contribution totals
- 2026 cycle
- $4,270,210.00
- Itemized
- $4,270,210.00
- Unitemized
- $0.00
- Itemized transactions
- 17020 transactions
Only itemized individual contributions are included; unitemized totals are unavailable for this view.
Itemized individual contributions total $4,270,210.00 in the 2026 cycle.
Monthly contribution columns
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
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| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| January 2025 | Dollars: $134,567.00;Transactions: 455;Coverage: Covered |
| February 2025 | Dollars: $108,231.00;Transactions: 467;Coverage: Covered |
| March 2025 | Dollars: $387,623.00;Transactions: 632;Coverage: Covered |
| April 2025 | Dollars: $181,158.00;Transactions: 513;Coverage: Covered |
| May 2025 | Dollars: $353,567.00;Transactions: 828;Coverage: Covered |
| June 2025 | Dollars: $463,109.00;Transactions: 869;Coverage: Covered |
| July 2025 | Dollars: $176,701.00;Transactions: 707;Coverage: Covered |
| August 2025 | Dollars: $286,406.00;Transactions: 866;Coverage: Covered |
| September 2025 | Dollars: $387,755.00;Transactions: 1,102;Coverage: Covered |
| October 2025 | Dollars: $238,031.00;Transactions: 1,066;Coverage: Covered |
| November 2025 | Dollars: $149,797.00;Transactions: 917;Coverage: Covered |
| December 2025 | Dollars: $212,006.00;Transactions: 1,087;Coverage: Covered |
| January 2026 | Dollars: $193,684.00;Transactions: 1,247;Coverage: Covered |
| February 2026 | Dollars: $171,254.00;Transactions: 1,252;Coverage: Covered |
| March 2026 | Dollars: $357,217.00;Transactions: 1,470;Coverage: Covered |
| April 2026 | Dollars: $201,574.00;Transactions: 1,545;Coverage: Covered |
| May 2026 | Dollars: $163,199.00;Transactions: 1,521;Coverage: Covered |
| June 2026 | Dollars: $104,331.00;Transactions: 476;Coverage: Covered |
| July 2026 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| August 2026 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| September 2026 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| October 2026 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| November 2026 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
| December 2026 | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Coverage: Covered |
Unitemized contributions are excluded from count and geography charts.
Itemized contribution-size buckets discloses $4,270,210.00 across 17,019 reported transactions in the 2026 cycle.
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
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| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| $200 and under | Dollars: $413,167.00;Transactions: 14,084 |
| $200.01-$499.99 | Dollars: $184,702.00;Transactions: 708 |
| $500-$999.99 | Dollars: $412,040.00;Transactions: 809 |
| $1,000-$1,999.99 | Dollars: $658,951.00;Transactions: 599 |
| $2,000 and over | Dollars: $2,601,350.00;Transactions: 819 |
Reported rows exclude unitemized counts and do not equal unique donors.
District geography uses a Census 119th-Congress / 2020-ZCTA approximation.
- District share
- 27% in district
- District share basis
- $1,169,898.00 in district and $3,100,312.00 out of district.
Unknown is shown outside the classified geography denominator. Unknown is $0.00 with 0 reported transactions; classified denominator is $4,270,210.00.
Geography dollar share
Sources: FEC Schedule A itemized individual contributions
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| Label | Values |
|---|---|
| CO | Dollars: $1,169,898.00;Transactions: 9,415;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
| NY | Dollars: $566,058.00;Transactions: 780;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
| CA | Dollars: $494,523.00;Transactions: 1,391;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
| MA | Dollars: $234,361.00;Transactions: 305;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
| TX | Dollars: $221,584.00;Transactions: 593;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
| Other states | Dollars: $1,583,786.00;Transactions: 4,536;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
| Unknown | Dollars: $0.00;Transactions: 0;Denominator: $4,270,210.00 |
Top reported contributor names
| Reported contributor name | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| JONES, ALAN | $14,000.00 | 4 transactions |
| LEWIS, MELONY | $14,000.00 | 3 transactions |
| SIMON, DEBORAH | $12,000.00 | 4 transactions |
| POLLACK, CINTRA | $7,600.00 | 3 transactions |
| KENDRICK, MICHAEL | $7,000.00 | 4 transactions |
| SMITH, MICHAEL | $7,000.00 | 4 transactions |
| BOGER, AMY | $7,000.00 | 3 transactions |
| BOGER, JOSHUA | $7,000.00 | 3 transactions |
| BURG, KATHRYN A | $7,000.00 | 3 transactions |
| BURG, MICHAEL | $7,000.00 | 3 transactions |
Top reported employer names
Top employers aggregate raw employer names from itemized individual contributions only.
The raw ranking remains employer-name data; see Methodology for source-linking and evidence limitations.
| Employer | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Unclassified / not provided | $1,854,531.00 | 12447 transactions |
| CHARTER COMMUNICATIONS | $47,350.00 | 21 transactions |
| NEXTERA ENERGY | $25,000.00 | 15 transactions |
| APOLLO GLOBAL MANAGEMENT | $24,500.00 | 9 transactions |
| MICROSOFT CORPORATION | $20,800.00 | 18 transactions |
| COMCAST | $19,500.00 | 16 transactions |
| APOLLO | $16,500.00 | 6 transactions |
| BROWNSTEIN HYATT FARBER SCHRECK, LLP | $14,750.00 | 19 transactions |
| ANTHROPIC | $14,000.00 | 4 transactions |
| ARIEL INVESTMENTS | $14,000.00 | 4 transactions |
Industries among top reported employer names
Industries are assigned from reported employer names by the server. This rollup covers only eligible returned top-employer rows for the selected cycle.
| Industry | Total | Transactions |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown / unclassified | $196,400.00 | 112 transactions |
Classified: $0.00 and 0 transactions out of $196,400.00 and 112 transactions among eligible top-employer rows.
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Source and freshness
Last pulled: 2 days ago (2026-08-16)
Data is current.
US Congress Legislators (unitedstates/congress-legislators) (campaign_finance/federal/congress)
Source record ID: senate:H000273
View source recordFEC Federal Races (civics/federal/fec)
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Key metrics
- Identifiers
- 5
Identifiers
- bioguide_id
- H000273
- fec_candidate_id
- S0CO00575
- fec_candidate_ids
- S0CO00575
- govtrack_id
- 456797
- wikidata_id
- Q430518