Mike Gallagher (Republican Party) was a member of the U.S. House, representing Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District. He assumed office on January 3, 2017. He left office on April 20, 2024.
Gallagher (Republican Party) ran for re-election to the U.S. House to represent Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District. He did not appear on the ballot for the Republican primary on August 13, 2024.
In his first term in Congress, Gallagher was assigned to the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Homeland Security. He was re-assigned in 2019 to the Committee on Armed Services.
Gallagher was a Republican foreign policy advisor. Gallagher served seven years of active duty in the Marine Corps and worked in counterintelligence.
He was a John Hay Initiative advisor on foreign affairs. Gallagher worked on Capitol Hill as a staff member to U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations Chairman Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and advised the committee on foreign affairs.
He was the national security advisor for Scott Walker's 2016 presidential campaign. Michael Gallagher began his bachelor's degree in 2002 at Princeton University and received his degree in international relations and affairs in 2006.
Read moreGallagher joined the U.S. Marine Corps that same year. He served seven years of active duty and was deployed twice to the Al Anbar province in Iraq.
He served both in counterintelligence and as a member of the CENTCOM (Central Command) assessment team, which assessed American military strategy in the Middle East and Central Asia. During his time in Marine Corps, Gallagher attended the National Intelligence University in Washington, D.C.
and earned his a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence in 2010. He then went to Georgetown University and joined the department of government as a graduate student focusing on security studies and government, earning his master's in both fields in 2012 and 2013, respectively. He went on to work on his Ph.D. in political science and international government relations. Gallagher left the Marine Corps in 2013 with the rank of captain.
