Abraham J. Hamadeh

RepublicanU.S. Representative, AZ-8

Age	35 (b. 1991-05-15)
Gender	Male
In office since	2025-01-03 (~1 yrs)
Race / ethnicity	Arab American (Syrian descent; Kurdish on paternal grandmother's side)
Religion	Mixed-faith background (Muslim father, Druze mother); has described himself as non-denominational / 'nothing in particular'
Education	B.S. in political science, Arizona State University (2012); J.D., University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law (2016)
Prior occupation	Attorney; prosecutor at the Maricopa County Attorney's Office (2016/2017-2021)
Military service	Yes: U.S. Army Reserve (Captain)
Birthplace	Chicago, Illinois
Residence	Scottsdale, Arizona
Notable relatives	Older brother Waseem Hamadeh, a Phoenix-area real estate executive who made $1 million in contributions to Hamadeh's campaigns

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Pending research: languages · marital status · children · openly lgbtq.

Career & politics

First elected	2024
Committees	House Committee on Armed Services · House Committee on Veterans' Affairs
Caucuses	Congressional Western Caucus
Ideology	Conservative Republican aligned with the MAGA/Trump wing; strong supporter of Donald Trump and a vocal advocate of 2020 and 2022 election-fraud claims
Signature legislation	Health Professionals Scholarship Program (HPSP) Improvement Act of 2025 (passed House) · Edith Nourse Rogers STEM Scholarship Opportunity Act (veterans education; passed House) · Bill to codify President Trump's Executive Order 14248 'Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections'

Financial

Net worth: disclosed $270,001–$565,000 (2024) · estimate

Residence in Scottsdale, AZ	real_estate · $500,001–$1,000,000 · 2024
HAM Advisors LLC (consulting services)	business_owned · $15,001–$50,000 · 2024
Bank of America account	other · $15,001–$50,000 · 2024
Vanguard Target Retirement 2060 Fund	fund · $1,001–$15,000 · 2024

Scandals & crimes ledger

resolved — Arizona Supreme Court sanction for misrepresentations in 2022 attorney general election challenge

ethics-violation · 2023-08-23 · Arizona Supreme Court · Hamadeh ordered to pay opponents' attorney fees (approximately $55,000 total: more than $42,000 to Kris Mayes and $12,921 to Secretary of State Adrian Fontes) after the court found his lawyers had misrepresented to the court that they had sought a final, appealable order from a Mohave County judge when they had not. The underlying election challenge was rejected.

After narrowly losing the 2022 Arizona attorney general race to Democrat Kris Mayes by 280 votes, Hamadeh pursued multiple legal challenges. In August 2023 the Arizona Supreme Court found that his attorneys had misrepresented to the court that they had diligently sought a final, appealable ruling from Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen when they had not. On October 17, 2023, Chief Justice Robert Brutinel ordered Hamadeh to pay the opponents' legal fees - more than $42,000 to Kris Mayes and $12,921 to Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, totaling roughly $55,000 - as a sanction for the misrepresentation. The election challenge itself was rejected. Hamadeh remained politically active and was later elected to Congress in 2024.

Sources: Arizona Capitol Times · Tucson.com (Arizona Daily Star) · Wikipedia

resolved — Maricopa County Superior Court Sanctions in Quo Warranto Suit Against AG Mayes (Reversed on Appeal)

obstruction-perjury · 2023-12-28 · On December 28, 2023, Hamadeh filed a Verified Petition for Writ of Quo Warranto and Writ of Mandamus in Maricopa County Superior Court seeking to have Attorney General Kris Mayes removed from office and himself installed instead, based on claims about signature verification of early ballots in the 2022 election he lost by 280 votes. On April 1, 2024, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Susanna Pineda dismissed the petition, calling it a bad-faith filing brought without "substantial justification," and authorized sanctions against Hamadeh and his attorney Ryan Heath, exposing them to a statutory fine of up to $5,000 as well as the defendants' attorneys' fees. In a subsequent order, Pineda ordered Hamadeh, Heath and his law firm, and allied plaintiffs to jointly pay roughly $200,000 in legal fees to the Secretary of State's Office (~$39,742), the Attorney General's Office (~$16,643), and the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors/Recorder's Office (~$39,960 and additional amounts), totaling more than $200,000. Hamadeh appealed. On October 31, 2024, a three-judge panel of the Arizona Court of Appeals, in an opinion by Judge David Weinzweig, rejected Hamadeh's underlying quo warranto and ballot claims on the merits but reversed the $200,000 financial sanction, finding his legal claims were "fairly debatable" and therefore not sanctionable, even though they ultimately failed. · Sanctions and fee award of approximately $200,000 initially imposed by the trial court were reversed by the Arizona Court of Appeals, which held Hamadeh's claims were fairly debatable and not sanctionable, while still ruling against him on the merits of the underlying quo warranto claim.

A Maricopa County Superior Court judge sanctioned Hamadeh and his attorney roughly $200,000 in legal fees for a December 2023 quo warranto lawsuit seeking to remove AG Kris Mayes from office, calling the suit groundless; the Arizona Court of Appeals later reversed the financial sanction in October 2024, while still rejecting Hamadeh's underlying election claims.

Sources: Arizona Mirror · Arizona Mirror · KAWC (NPR Arizona) · Tucson.com · Yourvalley.net (Glendale Independent)