First elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1994, Richard Burr served five terms in the House and is currently serving North Carolina in his third term in the U.S. Senate. He is a vocal advocate for our men and women in the military and their families, and for the growing population of veterans across North Carolina.
In the Senate, Burr served as Chairman of the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence where he put the security of the American people first, while providing rigorous oversight of our intelligence community. He also sat on the Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee and the Finance Committee.
The son of a minister, Burr and his family moved to Winston-Salem, North Carolina when he was a young child. After graduating from Wake Forest University, he began his career far from the halls of Congress by spending seventeen years in business with Carswell Distributing, a wholesale commercial products company.
He also serves as a Board Member of Brenner Children’s Hospital and on the West Point Board of Visitors. Burr and his wife, Brooke, have two sons.