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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Andy Ogles
| image = Congressman Andy Ogles 2022.jpg
| state = [[Tennessee]]
| district = {{ushr|TN|5|5th}}
| term_start = January 3, 2023
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Jim Cooper]]
| successor =
| office1 = Mayor of [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]]
| term_start1 = September 1, 2018
| term_end1 = August 30, 2022
| predecessor1 = Charlie Norman
| successor1 = [[Sheila Butt]]
| birth_name = William Andrew Ogles IV
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|6|18}}
| birth_place = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Monica Ogles|June 25, 1994}}
| children = 3
| education = [[Western Kentucky University]]<br>[[Middle Tennessee State University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])
| website = {{URL|ogles.house.gov|House website}}
| caption = Official portrait, 2022
}}
'''William Andrew Ogles IV''' (born June 18, 1971) is an American politician and businessman who has served as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] for [[Tennessee's 5th congressional district]] since 2023. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he served as the mayor of [[Maury County, Tennessee]], from 2018 to 2022.
Ogles has worked as a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] activist, serving as the executive director of the [[Arthur Laffer|Laffer Center]], a think tank supportive of [[fiscal conservatism]] and the [[free market]], and the Tennessee chapter of [[Americans for Prosperity]].
Ogles has taken strongly conservative positions and been described by media as on the [[Far-right politics|far-right]] of the political spectrum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gainey |first=Blaise |date=2022-11-08 |title=Republican Andy Ogles wins 5th Congressional District race, flipping longtime Democratic seat |url=https://wpln.org/post/republican-andy-ogles-wins-5th-congressional-district-race-flipping-longtime-democratic-seat/ |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=[[WPLN-FM]] |language=en-US}}</ref> He opposes abortion and [[same-sex marriage]]. During the [[attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election]], Ogles falsely claimed that [[Big lie#Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election|it was stolen]], and was one of the original 19 congressmen to vote against [[Kevin McCarthy]] for [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]]. Ogles later voted for McCarthy after he was satisfied with concessions McCarthy had made.
Various claims Ogles has made about his education, career, political fundraising, and personal life have been disputed.<!--No citations are required in the article lead per [[MOS:LEADCITE]], as long as the content is cited in the article body, as it should be. Do not add missing-citation tags like {{cn}} to the lead. If necessary, {{not verified in body}} can be used, or the content removed.-->
==Early life and education==
Ogles was born on June 18, 1971. He describes himself as "a [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]] native with deep family roots in Tennessee dating back to the founding of the state."<ref name=About>{{Cite web|title=About Ogles|url=https://andyogles.com/about/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=Mayor Andy Ogles for Congress|date=September 16, 2019|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080244/https://andyogles.com/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ogles graduated from [[Franklin High School (Tennessee)|Franklin High School]] and later attended [[Western Kentucky University]] and [[Columbia State Community College]] from 1990 to 1993, studying allied language arts and English.<ref name="WTVF report">{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Phil |title=Businessman, economist, cop, international sex crimes expert? The stories of Congressman Andy Ogles |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] |date=February 16, 2023 |access-date=February 16, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles later studied at [[Middle Tennessee State University]] (MTSU), where he failed every course taken in the fall of 1995 and the fall of 1998; he returned to the university in 2007 and graduated with a 2.4 [[grade point average]], with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies.<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=collegetranscript>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Phil |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-congressman-andy-ogles-didnt-want-you-to-see-his-college-transcript-we-got-it-anyway|title=Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript! We got it anyway |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] |date=February 28, 2023 |access-date=February 28, 2023}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' described Liberal Studies as "a general education degree typically for those who cannot settle on a major"; ''[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]]'' gave a similar description.<ref name=collegetranscript/><ref name=Wagner>{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=John |title=Embattled Rep. Ogles acknowledges misrepresenting his college major |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/ogles-republicans-santos/ |access-date=March 3, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230227151708/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/ogles-republicans-santos/ |archive-date=February 27, 2023}}</ref> Ogles said in late February 2023 that his failed university courses were due to "an interfamilial matter" that led him to abandon his studies "to financially support my family during a difficult time"; and that he eventually completed his studies with online courses.<ref name=Vlachou>{{cite news |last1=Vlachou |first1=Marita |title=Republican Rep. Andy Ogles Apologizes For 'Misstatement' About College Major |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-ogles-education-history_n_63fde9ace4b0cab1fa312e64 |access-date=March 3, 2023 |work=[[Huffington Post]] |date=February 28, 2023}}</ref><ref name=Bartlett>{{cite news |last1=Bartlett |first1=Kerri |title=U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles admits he was 'mistaken' on the college degree he received |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/27/rep-andy-ogles-says-hes-mistaken-amid-undergrad-degree-backlash/69949206007 |access-date=March 3, 2023 |work=[[The Daily Herald]] |date=February 27, 2023}}</ref>
=== Disputed education details ===
After Ogles became a congressman in 2023, his congressional biography claimed that he received his degree from MTSU, "where he studied policy and economics."<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=collegetranscript/><ref name=Otten>{{cite magazine |last1=Otten |first1=Tori |title=GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Said He's an Economist, but He Barely Passed His One Econ Class in College |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/170802/gop-rep-andy-ogles-economist-barely-passed-econ-class-college |access-date=March 3, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |date=February 28, 2023}}</ref> Ogles' claim was questioned by ''[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]]'' in February 2023, which published an investigatory report detailing that in a 2009 resume and also in a background check of unspecified date, Ogles claimed to have an MTSU degree in international relations, with minors in psychology and English.<ref name="WTVF report"/> ''NewsChannel 5'' additionally reported that MTSU declined to confirm Ogles' degree, referencing a federal law allowing students (like Ogles) the ability to block the release of academic records.<ref name="WTVF report"/> Ogles later spoke to [[WWTN]] radio, calling for everyone to "lock down your transcripts ... so you're not a victim of identity theft."<ref name=collegetranscript/> In other comments to WTTN made on February 21, 2023, Ogles said that he does not remember "saying I had an economics degree … because I've been quite clear that I studied political science and international relations", while maintaining that he studied political science from "the economic perspective".<ref name=bodyofwork>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Phil |title='My body of work speaks for itself,' Tennessee Andy Ogles says in response to inflated résumé claims |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/my-body-of-work-speaks-for-itself-tennessee-andy-ogles-says-in-response-to-inflated-resume-claims |access-date=March 3, 2023 |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] |date=February 22, 2023}}</ref>
On February 26, Ogles said that he was "mistaken" in claiming to have an MTSU degree in international relations, and claimed that he requested his college transcript the week before, and only learned then that his degree was actually in Liberal Studies.<ref name=collegetranscript/><ref name=Vlachou/><ref name=Kruesi>{{cite news |last1=Kruesi |first1=Kimberlee |title=Tennessee GOP congressman was 'mistaken' on college degree |url=https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-congressman-mistaken-degree-1f3c2b55a43b85bb649f04eb8cb29373 |access-date=March 2, 2023 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 1, 2023}}</ref> ''[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]]'' called Ogles's statement "apparently preemptive" because Ogles "ignored our requests for comment" after the media outlet obtained his MTSU transcript from an old job application.<ref name=collegetranscript/> On February 27, ''NewsChannel 5'' published Ogles's transcript, which showed that Ogles took only one economics course at a community college, scoring a C pass, while he passed nine (and failed several other) political science courses at MTSU.<ref name=collegetranscript/> By February 28, Ogles's congressional biography was edited to simply state: "Andy obtained his degree from MTSU."<ref name=Vlachou/>
==Business and early political career==
Ogles has worked as a restaurant operator and a real estate investor. His involvement in politics began when he became the first director of the Tennessee chapter of [[Americans for Prosperity]], a conservative political advocacy group. He later became involved with the [[Arthur Laffer|Laffer Center]], an organization that advocates for [[fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] tax policy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Plazas|first=David|title=Meet Andy Ogles, candidate for U.S. House, Tennessee District 5|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/07/15/tennessee-aug-4-election-andy-ogles-candidate-congress-district-5/10066569002/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=[[The Tennessean]]|date=July 15, 2022|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205141/https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/07/15/tennessee-aug-4-election-andy-ogles-candidate-congress-district-5/10066569002/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has also been a [[Club for Growth]] Foundation fellow.<ref name="Club for Growth page">{{cite web|title=Andy Ogles (TN-5)|url=https://www.clubforgrowth.org/candidates/andy-ogles/|publisher=[[Club for Growth]]|date=2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles made two unsuccessful bids for elected office, a run for [[Tennessee's 4th congressional district|the state's 4th district]] in [[2002 United States House of Representatives elections#Tennessee|2002]] and for [[Tennessee Senate]] in 2006, losing in the Republican primary both times.<ref name=02primary>{{Cite web|title=Republican Congressional Primary Official Results|url=https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2002-8/us-house-rp8-02.pdf|publisher=Tennessee Secretary of State|access-date=August 26, 2022|date=August 1, 2002|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026191610/https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2002-8/us-house-rp8-02.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=06primary>{{Cite web|title=Republican State Senate Primary Official Results|url=https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2006-08/repts.pdf|publisher=Tennessee Secretary of State|access-date=August 26, 2022|date=August 3, 2006|archive-date=December 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207074820/https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2006-08/repts.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
In September 2017, Ogles announced he would challenge incumbent U.S. Senator [[Bob Corker]], whom he believed was insufficiently conservative, in the following year's primary. Two months later, Corker announced that he would retire instead of [[2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee|seeking the 2018 nomination]]. That led incumbent U.S. Representative [[Marsha Blackburn]], the eventual winner, and former representative [[Stephen Fincher]] to announce they would seek the seat, and as their campaigns were likely to be well-funded, Ogles announced shortly afterward that he would withdraw.<ref name="Tennesseean Corker story">{{cite news|last=Garrison|first=Joey|title=Republican Andy Ogles drops out of US Senate race in Tennessee|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/11/15/republican-andy-ogles-drops-out-tennessee-us-senate-race/866018001/|newspaper=[[The Tennessean]]|date=November 15, 2017|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
=== Disputed career claims ===
Ogles has repeatedly made public claims of being an "economist."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hurley |first1=Bevan |title=GOP congressman apologises for claiming he was a trained economist – after taking one class in which he got a C |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-ogles-economist-gop-congressman-tennessee-b2290680.html |access-date=March 5, 2023 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=February 28, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lerman |first1=David |title=GOP inflation reporting bill draws bipartisan House backing |url=https://rollcall.com/2023/03/01/gop-inflation-reporting-bill-draws-bipartisan-house-backing/ |access-date=March 5, 2023 |work=[[Roll Call]] |date=March 1, 2023}}</ref> After ''NewsChannel 5'' questioned how much formal training in economics Ogles had, he said he was an economist because when "you look at the body of someone's work ... I've spent the last decade working on economic policy and tax policy. "<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=bodyofwork/> During that time, Ogles had worked for roughly five years as an anti-tax lobbyist with Americans for Prosperity, and then for a year as the executive director of the Laffer Center, an organisation run by economist [[Arthur Laffer]].<ref name=bodyofwork/> The executive director position seemed to involve mainly "administrative" work, reported ''NewsChannel 5'', with Ogles not being named as an author of any economic reports uploaded on the Laffer Center's website.<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=bodyofwork/> Ogles' congressional website claims that "while working at the Laffer Center, Andy became a nationally recognized expert on tax policy and healthcare, having been featured in numerous publications, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''Investor’s Business Daily''".<ref name="WTVF report"/> ''NewsChannel 5'' questioned this claim, being unable to find any articles in the publications independently citing him as an expert, only finding three columns written by Ogles in these publications, all of which were written when he was a lobbyist, ''before'' he worked for the Laffer Center.<ref name="WTVF report"/>
At a political debate, Ogles called himself "a former member of law enforcement, worked in international sex crimes, specifically [[child trafficking]]", while at a separate forum, he said: "I went into law enforcement. I worked in human trafficking."<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=Bartlett/> ''NewsChannel 5'' reported that Ogles was a volunteer reserve deputy with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office from 2009 to 2011, with his position revoked for failing to meet minimum standards, failing to progress in field training, and failing to attend required meetings.<ref name="WTVF report"/> The Williamson County Sheriff's Office said that records do not show Ogles trained or worked against international sex trafficking as a reserve deputy.<ref name="WTVF report"/> In 2011, Ogles worked as a chief operating officer for Abolition International, a non-profit organisation which described its work as giving grants to "holistic ministries".<ref name="WTVF report"/> Ogles indicated that since his stint at Abolition International overlapped his stint as a reserve deputy, "Maybe I created some of the confusion or maybe it was someone looking to write a story".<ref name=Kruesi/> While Ogles claimed he was "heavily involved in the fight against human trafficking", ''NewsChannel 5'' reported that Abolition International's tax records showed that Ogles worked in a part-time position that paid him $4,000 in total.<ref name="WTVF report"/> Ogles' congressional website originally claimed that Ogles was "overseeing operations and investments in 12 countries" for Abolition International; but ''NewsChannel 5'' disputed that number as too large; the website later amended its claim to overseeing operations and investments in “several countries.”<ref name=Wagner/><ref name=Vlachou/><ref name=Otten/>
===County mayoralty===
Initially considered a potential contender in the [[2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election]], Ogles instead saw his major first electoral success when he was elected mayor of [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]] in the August 2, 2018, general election, defeating incumbent Charlie Norman.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ebert|first=Joel|title=Tennessee's 2018 governor's race: Who's in, out, undecided|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/06/14/tennessees-2018-governors-race-whos-in-out-undecided/389328001/|access-date=September 28, 2022|work=[[The Tennessean]]|date=June 14, 2017|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205205/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/06/14/tennessees-2018-governors-race-whos-in-out-undecided/389328001/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Republican Andy Ogles Unseats County Mayor Charlie Norman in Maury County|url=https://tennesseestar.com/2018/08/04/republican-andy-ogles-unseats-county-mayor-charlie-norman-in-maury-county/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=The Tennessee Star|date=August 4, 2018|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://tennesseestar.com/2018/08/04/republican-andy-ogles-unseats-county-mayor-charlie-norman-in-maury-county/|url-status=live}}</ref>
During his mayoralty, Ogles criticized Tennessee Governor [[Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)|Bill Lee]] for not restricting local school boards' ability to implement [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|mask mandates]] in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee|COVID-19 pandemic]], calling for the state legislature to pass legislation to support his proposition in a special session.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Christen|first=Mike|title='It is time to stand': Mayor Ogles criticizes Gov. Lee for 'abuses of power,' calls for special session|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/11/maury-county-mayor-criticizes-gov-lee-abuse-power/8101289002/|access-date=August 26, 2022|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|location=[[Columbia, Tennessee]]|date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/11/maury-county-mayor-criticizes-gov-lee-abuse-power/8101289002/|url-status=live}}</ref> He supported a sales tax increase that passed in 2020.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout campaign finance story">{{cite news |last=Stockard |first=Sam |date=July 26, 2022 |title=Ogles' late fundraising report shows less than touted in 5th Congressional District race |newspaper=Tennessee Lookout |publisher=[[States Newsroom]] |url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/07/26/ogles-late-fundraising-report-shows-less-than-touted-in-5th-congressional-district-race/ |access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Notice 20-08: Change of Local Tax Rate: Maury County|url=https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/revenue/documents/notices/sales/sales20-08.pdf|publisher=[[Tennessee Department of Revenue]]|date=March 2020|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles initially filed to run for a second term as county mayor but withdrew to enter the race [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee#District 5|for the redrawn U.S. House of Representatives seat]] in [[Tennessee's 5th congressional district]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bartlett|first=Kelly|title=Ogles officially exits race for second term as Maury mayor, sets sights on Congress|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/04/14/andy-ogles-maury-county-tennessee-mayor-exits-election-congress-district-5/7320332001/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/04/14/andy-ogles-maury-county-tennessee-mayor-exits-election-congress-district-5/7320332001/|url-status=live}}</ref> After he had announced his candidacy for Congress, a month before the Republican primary, he vetoed that year's county budget, along with the school and library budgets, over a 31-cent property tax hike (the first in six years) and what he considered the library's exposure of young children to inappropriate "woke" material. The county commission complained it had not been aware of any concerns Ogles had had over the budget, noting that he rarely attended meetings and had taken no part in the budget process. Ogles said that since he could not vote at the meetings it was not necessary for him to attend them and that he kept up by watching them online.<ref name="Daily Herald veto story">{{cite news|last=Bartlett|first=Kerri|title=Mayor Andy Ogles vetoes Maury property tax hike, county and school budgets in uncommon move|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/07/08/maury-county-property-tax-increase-mayor-andy-ogles-vetos/10016222002/|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|location=[[Columbia, Tennessee]]|date=July 8, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref> Two weeks later the county commission overrode the veto, citing Maury's status as the fastest-growing county in the state. Some commissioners and citizens commenting at that meeting accused Ogles of having vetoed the budget largely to bolster his credentials as a fiscal conservative in the upcoming primary; it was noted that his absence from that particular meeting might have been because it conflicted with a campaign event.<ref name="Daily Herald override story">{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Dave|title=Maury commission overrides Mayor Andy Ogles' veto, restoring property tax hike, budget|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/07/19/maury-commission-overrides-mayor-andy-ogles-veto-restore-tax-hike-budget/10094243002/|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|date=July 19, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
==U.S. House of Representatives==
===Election===
==== 2022 ====
{{further|2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee#District 5}}
====Primary====
Ogles seemed to some observers to have gotten off to a strong start in the primary, announcing that he had raised nearly half a million dollars in the campaign's first month. But when his disclosure report was actually filed, a week after the deadline, it showed that he had raised only $264,400, although he did have over $500,000 in total receipts. He explained that he had not counted a $320,000 personal loan to the campaign.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout campaign finance story" />
Among the many candidates, two stood out as serious challengers: former [[Tennessee House of Representatives|state House]] [[List of speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives|Speaker]] [[Beth Harwell]], and retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Kurt Winstead. Ads by the Tennessee Conservatives [[Political Action Committee]] (TCPAC) called Ogles a "D.C. insider" and lobbyist who had failed to pay his property taxes nine times while supporting the sales tax hike and a marriage tax, as well as failing to vigorously oppose Maury County's recent property tax hike. Records showed that Ogles had indeed been from a few days to almost a year late paying taxes on his [[Franklin, Tennessee|Franklin]] home between 2005 and 2015, leading to interest charges. He filed a [[defamation]] suit against TCPAC. Ogles, in turn, was supported by [[super PAC]]s that ran ads attacking Harwell and Winstead as "too liberal for Tennessee."<ref name="Tennessee Lookout campaign finance story" />
On August 4, Ogles won the primary.<ref name="NashvillePost article">{{cite news|last1=Elliott|first1=Stephen|last2=Herner|first2=Hannah|title=Republican Andy Ogles wins redrawn 5th Congressional District|url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/politics/elections/republican-andy-ogles-wins-redrawn-5th-congressional-district/article_b6b2a93a-5fcd-11ed-8e1d-6b979c2caa27.html|newspaper=[[NashvillePost.com]]|date=November 8, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article">{{cite news|last1=Stockard|first1=Sam|last2=Wadhwani|first2=Anita|title=Ogles rolls past Campbell in revamped 5th Congressional District|url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/11/08/ogles-rolls-past-campbell-in-revamped-5th-congressional-district/|newspaper=Tennessee Lookout|publisher=[[States Newsroom]]|date=November 8, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
====General====
Ogles faced [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee [[Heidi Campbell (politician)|Heidi Campbell]] in the November general election. The district was previously a Democratic stronghold centered on Nashville, but has been redrawn as an area that voted for Republican [[Donald Trump]] by 12 percentage points in the [[2020 United States presidential election in Tennessee|2020 presidential election]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Humphrey |first=Mark |date=August 5, 2022 |title=Far-right candidate Andy Ogles wins GOP primary for Nashville U.S. House seat |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/far-right-andy-ogles-wins-republican-primary-tennessee-congress/ |access-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826093305/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/far-right-andy-ogles-wins-republican-primary-tennessee-congress/ |url-status=live }}</ref> This was done by [[gerrymandering|splitting Democratic-heavy Nashville into three congressional districts]].<ref name=":1" /> When the new district boundaries were announced, the Democratic incumbent decided to retire, calling the new district "unwinnable" for a Democrat.<ref name="NashvillePost article" />
On August 30, Ogles was succeeded as county mayor by [[Sheila Butt]], a former member of the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Toriana|title=Sheila Butt sworn in as Maury County's new county mayor|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/08/30/sheila-butt-sworn-in-maury-county-mayor/7937785001/|access-date=August 31, 2022|work=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|date=August 30, 2022|archive-date=August 31, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831040801/https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/08/30/sheila-butt-sworn-in-maury-county-mayor/7937785001/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ogles was endorsed by the [[House Freedom Caucus]], the [[House Republican Conference]]'s farthest-right bloc.<ref name=":0"/>
During the election, Ogles avoided the major local media in favor of conservative local talk radio and posted very little on social media. Early in the campaign, he made some appearances with a [[flamethrower]], saying he would use it on President [[Joe Biden]]'s work when he got to Washington.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" /> A late October appearance with Texas U.S. Senator [[Ted Cruz]] in [[Franklin, Tennessee|Franklin]] was announced in his first campaign-related Twitter post since he won the Republican primary. He declined all invitations to debate, drawing criticism from McCarthy.<ref name="WZTV post">{{cite news|last=Keller|first=Sydney|title=Nashville GOP front runner Andy Ogles, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to visit Franklin|url=https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-gop-front-runner-andy-ogles-texas-sen-ted-cruz-to-visit-franklin-tennessee-election|newspaper=[[WZTV]]|date=October 12, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles was slightly outraised and outspent.<ref name="NashvillePost article" /> He raised almost $1 million for his campaign, including the loan, and spent $573,000. In contrast, Campbell raised over $1 million, none of it in loans, and spent $679,000, largely on television ads.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" />
The election was complicated by local officials inadvertently sending 1,000 voters ballots with the wrong congressional or state legislative district elections on them, due to a mistake made with [[Davidson County, Tennessee|Davidson County]]'s [[geographic information system]] database. A lawsuit the Tennessee [[League of Women Voters]] chapter brought against the state that could have delayed voting in the county was settled at the last minute. As a result, 438 voters who had already cast the wrong ballot were allowed to vote on [[provisional ballot]]s that were only to be counted if the final margin was narrower than that number.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" />
Ogles won the general election in November with 56% of the vote to Campbell's 42%, becoming the first Republican to represent the state's 5th district since the 19th century<ref name="NashvillePost article" /> and leaving Nashville without any Democratic representatives in Congress for the first time in modern history.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" />
===Tenure===
On January 1, 2023, Ogles signed a letter by fellow representatives [[Scott Perry (politician)|Scott Perry]] and [[Chip Roy]] expressing opposition to fellow Republican [[Kevin McCarthy]] in the upcoming [[January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election|house speakership election]] after McCarthy did not accept all their proposed House rules changes.<ref>{{cite web|title=House conservatives say McCarthy's efforts to address demands 'insufficient' ahead of Speaker election|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3795194-house-conservatives-say-mccarthys-efforts-to-address-demands-insufficient-ahead-of-speaker-election/|author=Dress, Brad|website=TheHill.com|publisher=The Hill|date=January 1, 2023|access-date=January 3, 2023|archive-date=January 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102221838/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3795194-house-conservatives-say-mccarthys-efforts-to-address-demands-insufficient-ahead-of-speaker-election/|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 3, his first day in office, Ogles joined far-right House Republicans in voting against McCarthy on the first three ballots.<ref name=TT>{{cite web|title=US Rep. Andy Ogles opposes McCarthy's speakership bid joining other hardline conservatives|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/03/andy-ogles-opposes-mccarthy-bid-for-speaker-of-the-house/69773523007/|author=Adams, Liam|website=Tennessean.com|publisher=The Tennessean|date=January 3, 2023|access-date=January 3, 2023|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205140/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/03/andy-ogles-opposes-mccarthy-bid-for-speaker-of-the-house/69773523007/|url-status=live}}</ref> This was the first time since [[1923 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election|1923]] that a speaker was not elected on the first ballot.<ref>{{cite web|title=Speaker Elections Decided by Multiple Ballots|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Speakers-Multiple-Ballots/|website=History.House.gov|publisher=Office of the Historian and Clerk of the House's Office of Art and Archives|access-date=January 3, 2023|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806210715/https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Speakers-Multiple-Ballots/|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 6, after days of negotiations, Ogles voted for McCarthy on the 12th ballot, joining the rest of Tennessee's Republican [[List of United States representatives from Tennessee|delegation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ogles flips, backs McCarthy in 12th round of House speaker voting|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/u-s-rep-elect-andy-ogles-supports-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-12th-vote/69785322007/|author=Adams, Liam|website=Tennessean.com|publisher=The Tennessean|date=January 6, 2023|access-date=January 7, 2023|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205141/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/u-s-rep-elect-andy-ogles-supports-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-12th-vote/69785322007/|url-status=live}}</ref> He explained in a statement that this was because he believed negotiations between McCarthy and the other holdouts were going well.<ref name="Tennessee Star McCarthy vote story">{{cite news|last=Houser|first=Kaitlin|title=TN-5 GOP Congressman Andy Ogles Explains 12th Round Vote for McCarthy in House Speaker Race|url=https://tennesseestar.com/2023/01/06/tn-5-gop-congressman-andy-ogles-explains-12th-round-vote-for-mccarthy-in-house-speaker-race/|newspaper=[[The Tennessee Star]]|date=January 6, 2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Shortly after being sworn in, Ogles was appointed to the [[House Financial Services Committee]].<ref>{{cite news | last =Brooks | first =Emily | title =Handful of McCarthy detractors get new top committee assignments | newspaper =[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =January 11, 2023 | url =https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3809640-handful-of-mccarthy-detractors-get-new-top-committee-assignments/amp/ | accessdate =January 17, 2022 | archive-date =January 12, 2023 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20230112014044/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3809640-handful-of-mccarthy-detractors-get-new-top-committee-assignments/amp/ | url-status =live }}</ref>
The first bill Ogles introduced, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2023, would repeal [[Inflation Reduction Act of 2022|the previous year's Inflation Reduction Act]]. In his [[2023 State of the Union Address|State of the Union speech]], Biden mentioned the bill without mentioning Ogles's name, which Ogles took credit for in a subsequent tweet.<ref name="Tennessee Star SOTU story">{{cite news|last=Housler|first=Kaitlin|title=Biden Calls Out Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles' Bill to Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act at State of the Union Address|url=https://tennesseestar.com/2023/02/08/biden-calls-out-tennessee-u-s-rep-andy-ogles-bill-to-repeal-the-inflation-reduction-act-at-state-of-the-union-address/|newspaper=[[The Tennessee Star]]|date=February 8, 2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
After the March 2023 [[2023 Covenant School shooting|Covenant School shooting]] in his district, Ogles released a statement that read in part: "My family and I are devastated by the tragedy that took place at The Covenant School in Nashville this morning. We are sending our thoughts and prayers to the families of those lost. As a father of three, I am utterly heartbroken by this senseless act of violence."<ref name="ogles-cov-statement-23">{{cite web |title=Rep. Ogles Statement on Covenant School Shooting |url=https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-statement-covenant-school-shooting |publisher=Office of Congressman Andy Ogles |date=March 27, 2023}}</ref> Subsequently, photos re-circulated of Ogles's 2021 Christmas card, featuring a photo of him and his family posing with assault rifles.<ref name="/New Republic">{{cite web |title=The Internet Won't Let Nashville Rep. Andy Ogles Forget His Family Christmas Card After School Shooting |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/171411/nashville-rep-andy-ogles-family-christmas-card-school-shooting-guns|publisher=New Republic |date=March 27, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles is part of the [[Freedom Caucus]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ivory |first1=Danielle |last2=Smart |first2=Charlie |last3=Yourish |first3=Karen |date=2023-01-04 |title=How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-republicans-vote-against-mccarthy.html |access-date=2023-03-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Political positions ==
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|source = —Ogles during a [[United States House of Representatives|House]] debate, November 2023<ref name=YahooNews_20231103>{{cite news |last1=Harvey |first1=Josephine |title=GOP Lawmaker’s Inane Climate-Denying Remark Gets Critics Fired Up |url=https://news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmaker-inane-climate-denying-125450229.html |work=Yahoo News |date=November 3, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231104044906/https://news.yahoo.com/web/20231104044906/https://news.yahoo.com/gop-lawmaker-inane-climate-denying-125450229.html |archive-date=November 4, 2023 |url-status=live }}</ref>
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Media sources have characterized Ogles's political views as conservative<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-08 |title=Conservative Republican Ogles wins Nashville US House seat |url=https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-legislature-255006070ded94e9bfff5f7aef696e78 |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mattise |first1=Jonathan |last2=Kruesi |first2=Kimberlee |date=9 November 2022 |title=Conservative Republican Ogles Wins Nashville US House Seat |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/tennessee/articles/2022-11-08/voters-choosing-new-rep-in-redrawn-nashville-district}}</ref> or far-right.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Humphrey |first=Mark |date=August 5, 2022 |title=Far-right candidate Andy Ogles wins GOP primary for Nashville U.S. House seat |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/far-right-andy-ogles-wins-republican-primary-tennessee-congress/ |access-date=August 26, 2022}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2022 |title=GOP front-runner lies low in open US House race in Nashville |url=https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-social-media-campaigns-7069366a86f36ab7f49d5abd42f79a97 |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref>
Ogles opposes abortion and [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stockard |first=Sam |date=October 4, 2022 |title=Tennessee's new 5th congressional district features Trump Republican vs. progressive Democrat |url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/04/tennessees-new-5th-congressional-district-features-trump-republican-vs-progressive-democrat/ |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=Tennessee Lookout |language=en-US |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165559/https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/04/tennessees-new-5th-congressional-district-features-trump-republican-vs-progressive-democrat/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a 2022 interview, he downplayed the need for exceptions in an abortion bill, calling them "red herrings".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gainey |first=Blaise |date=October 10, 2022 |title=Democrat Heidi Campbell faces Republican Andy Ogles for Tennessee's 5th District. Their opposing stances on abortion could shape the race. |url=https://wpln.org/post/democrat-heidi-campbell-faces-republican-andy-ogles-for-tennessees-5th-district-their-opposing-stances-on-abortion-could-shape-the-race/ |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=wpln.org |language=en-US |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165602/https://wpln.org/post/democrat-heidi-campbell-faces-republican-andy-ogles-for-tennessees-5th-district-their-opposing-stances-on-abortion-could-shape-the-race/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2022, after the repeal of ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', Ogles said, "The next thing we have to do is go after gay marriage."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2022 |title=GOP front-runner lies low in open US House race in Nashville |url=https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-social-media-campaigns-7069366a86f36ab7f49d5abd42f79a97 |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165558/https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-social-media-campaigns-7069366a86f36ab7f49d5abd42f79a97 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Ogles has called for the [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] of President [[Joe Biden]] and Vice President [[Kamala Harris]], and for [[treason]] charges to be brought against Secretary of Homeland Security [[Alejandro Mayorkas]].<ref name=":1" /> He has called for the [[United States Department of Education]] to be defunded.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2022 |title=Andy Ogles talks abortion, Jan. 6, economy in 1-on-1 interview |url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/andy-ogles-talks-abortion-jan-6-economy-in-1-on-1-interview/ |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=WKRN News 2 |language=en-US |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165602/https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/andy-ogles-talks-abortion-jan-6-economy-in-1-on-1-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Ogles denies the legitimacy of the [[2020 United States presidential election]].<ref name= HFR>{{cite news | last1 =Ivory | first1 =Danielle | last2 =Smart | first2 =Charlie | last3 =Yourish | first3 =Karen | title =How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy? | newspaper =[[New York Times]] | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =January 17, 2023 | url =https://nyti.ms/3GhDooM | accessdate =January 17, 2023 | archive-date =February 9, 2023 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205141/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-republicans-vote-against-mccarthy.html | url-status =live }}</ref>
Ogles supports [[school choice]], [[term limits]], deregulating health care, and lower taxes. He opposes [[Earmark (politics)|earmarks]].<ref name="Club for Growth page" />
Ogles was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the [[Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023]] in the House.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4029522-republicans-and-democrats-who-bucked-party-leaders-by-voting-no/|title=Republicans and Democrats who bucked party leaders by voting no|first=Jared|last=Gans|date=May 31, 2023|access-date=June 6, 2023|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Ogles lives on a farm in [[Culleoka, Tennessee]] with his wife, Monica, and their three children.<ref name=About />
===Child burial garden controversy===
In 2014, Ogles and his wife had a stillborn child, Lincoln, whose photograph Ogles has used in social media posts. Ogles set up a [[GoFundMe]] to finance a child burial garden in Lincoln's memory, which was to contain a "life-size statue of Jesus watching over the children, benches for families to sit while surrounded by flowers in the special garden" that was to be "a place for Lincoln's new play friends as they wait in Heaven to their families".<ref name=Phil>{{cite news |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] | first1=Phil |last1=Williams | url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/what-did-congressman-andy-ogles-do-with-nearly-25-000-meant-for-child-burial-garden-he-wont-say | title=What did Congressman Andy Ogles do with nearly $25,000 meant for child burial garden? He won't say | date=March 15, 2023 }}</ref> Nearly $25,000 was raised, and GoFundMe confirmed that Ogles received the money.<ref name=Phil/> In 2023, a director of Williamson Memorial Funeral Home told ''NewsChannel 5'' that eight years earlier she had planned to meet Ogles's family to "help organize a unified effort to aid parents dealing with the financial and emotional trauma of burying children", but that they "never came back to us".<ref name=Phil/> The manager of the cemetery hosting Lincoln told ''NewsChannel 5'' that he had met Ogles and proposed that Ogles buy several plots of land at the cemetery, but the manager did not know what became of the money.<ref name=Phil/> At least one donor demanded their money back and received a refund.<ref name=Phil/>
In 2015, Ogles told ''[[The Tennessean]]'' that "burials are heavily regulated", and that the $23,575 he had raised on GoFundMe had not been spent.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilemon |first1=Tom |title=Trauma, cost of child burials behind new aid effort |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2015/05/22/efforts-coalesce-aid-child-burials/27814059/ |access-date=March 28, 2023 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |date=May 26, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Otten |first1=Tori |title=GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Seems to Have Kept $25,000 From a GoFundMe for a Child Burial Garden |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/171183/andy-ogles-25000-gofundme-child-burial-garden |access-date=March 28, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Republic|New Republic]] |date=March 16, 2023}}</ref> In 2022, Ogles spoke publicly about difficulties he experienced in getting his family's health insurers to pay his wife's medical bills after Lincoln was stillborn, and blamed [[Obamacare]] for the problems.<ref name=Phil/>
In 2023, Ogles refused to respond to ''NewsChannel 5'' when its reporters questioned him on the topic, but he later released a statement to ''The Tennessee Star'' claiming that the funds raised were used to pay for burials of children of other families.<ref name="Graziosi">{{cite news |last1=Graziosi |first1=Graig |title=GOP congressman accused of lying on resume faces questions over $25k funds for child burial garden |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-ogles-gofundme-child-burial-garden-b2302378.html |access-date=March 28, 2023 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=March 16, 2023}}</ref> The statement quoted Andy Miller as corroborating Ogles's claim; ''The Independent'' cited reporting that Miller is a known Republican Party donor in Tennessee, whose business in 2016 paid $7.8 million to settle allegations of fraud in a federal case.<ref name="Graziosi"/><ref>{{cite news |title=GOP donor Andy Miller settled federal fraud case for $7.8M |url=http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=91848 |access-date=March 28, 2023 |work=[[Tennessee Ledger]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> Ogles called ''NewsChannel 5''<nowiki/>'s research and reporting on the subject "disgusting" and "vile".<ref name="Graziosi"/>
==Electoral history==
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| title = [[United States House of Representatives Elections in Tennessee, 2022]]: District 5<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.elections.tn.gov/results.php?ByType=US%20House |title=Tennessee US House Election Results |website=Tennessee Secretary of State |access-date=November 13, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110052708/https://www.elections.tn.gov/results.php?ByType=US%20House |archive-date=November 10, 2022}}</ref>
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 123,358
| percentage = 55.87
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Heidi Campbell (politician)|Heidi Campbell]]
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 93,375
| percentage = 42.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Derrick Brantley
| party = Independent politician
| votes = 2,083
| percentage = 0.94
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Daniel Cooper
| party = Independent politician
| votes = 1,125
| percentage = 0.51
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Rich Shannon
| party = Independent politician
| votes = 846
| percentage = 0.38
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 220,787
| percentage = 100
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District Republican Primary Results, 2022
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 21,298
| percentage = 36.9
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Beth Harwell]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 14,998
| percentage = 26.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Kurt Winstead
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 12,709
| percentage = 22.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Jeff Beierlien
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,086
| percentage = 7.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Natisha Brooks
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,740
| percentage = 3.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Geni Batchelor
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,016
| percentage = 1.8
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Timothy Bruce Lee
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 843
| percentage = 1.5
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Stewart T. Parks
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 585
| percentage = 1.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Tres Wittum
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 397
| percentage = 0.7
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 57,672
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Maury County Mayoral election, 2018 <ref>{{Cite web|title=August 2, 2018 Maury County Election Results|url=https://www.maurycounty-tn.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/57|publisher=Maury County Government|access-date=August 26, 2022|date=August 2, 2018|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://www.maurycounty-tn.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/57|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 6,843
| percentage = 36.53
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Charlie Norman (incumbent)
| party = Independent (United States)
| votes = 5,387
| percentage = 28.75
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Sonny Shackelford
| party = Independent (United States)
| votes = 5,031
| percentage = 26.85
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Amanda P. Kelton
| party = Independent (United States)
| votes = 1,474
| percentage = 7.87
}}
{{Election box total no change
|votes = 18,735
|percentage = 100.0
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{{Election box hold with party link no change
| winner = Republican Party (United States)
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{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Tennessee’s 23rd Senate District Republican Primary Results, 2006<ref name=06primary />
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Jack Johnson (American politician)|Jack Johnson]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,623
| percentage = 30.72
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Ray "Chip" T. Throckmorton, III
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,351
| percentage = 28.91
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Tom Neill
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 3,408
| percentage = 22.64
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Jeff Ford
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,662
| percentage = 11.04
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Bob Barnwell
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 698
| percentage = 4.64
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 309
| percentage = 2.05
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 15,051
| percentage = 100.0
}}
{{Election box end}}
{{Election box begin no change
| title = Tennessee’s 4th Congressional District Republican Primary Results, 2002<ref name=02primary />
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Janice Bowling]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 20,709
| percentage = 37.10
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mike Greene
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 13,563
| percentage = 24.30
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 8,201
| percentage = 14.69
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = John Bumpus
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 7,245
| percentage = 12.98
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mike Coffield
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,991
| percentage = 8.94
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Harvey Howard
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,063
| percentage = 1.91
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| candidate = Write-ins
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 41
| percentage = 0.07
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 55,813
| percentage = 100.0
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==References==
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==External links==
* [http://ogles.house.gov/ Congressman Andy Ogles] official U.S. House website
* [https://andyogles.com/ Andy Ogles for Congress] campaign website
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Andy Ogles
| image = Congressman Andy Ogles 2022.jpg
| state = [[Tennessee]]
| district = {{ushr|TN|5|5th}}
| term_start = January 3, 202
| term_end =
| predecessor = [[Jim Cooper]]
| successor =
| office1 = Mayor of [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]]
| term_start1 = September 1, 2018
| term_end1 = August 30, 2022
| predecessor1 = Charlie Norman
| successor1 = [[Sheila Butt]]
| birth_name = William Andrew Ogles IV
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1971|6|18}}
| birth_place = [[Nashville, Tennessee]], U.S.
| death_date =
| death_place =
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse = {{marriage|Monica Ogles|June 25, 1994}}
| children = 3
| education = [[Western Kentucky University]]<br>[[Middle Tennessee State University]] ([[Bachelor of Science|BS]])
| website = {{URL|ogles.house.gov|House website}}
| caption = Official portrait, 2022
}}
'''William Andrew Ogles IV''' (born June 18, 1971) is an American politician and businessman who has served as the [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] for [[Tennessee's 5th congressional district]] since 2023. A member of the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]], he served as the mayor of [[Maury County, Tennessee]], from 2018 to 2022.
Ogles has worked as a [[Conservatism in the United States|conservative]] activist, serving as the executive director of the [[Arthur Laffer|Laffer Center]], a think tank supportive of [[fiscal conservatism]] and the [[free market]], and the Tennessee chapter of [[Americans for Prosperity]].
Ogles has taken strongly conservative positions and been described by media as on the [[Far-right politics|far-right]] of the political spectrum.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gainey |first=Blaise |date=2022-11-08 |title=Republican Andy Ogles wins 5th Congressional District race, flipping longtime Democratic seat |url=https://wpln.org/post/republican-andy-ogles-wins-5th-congressional-district-race-flipping-longtime-democratic-seat/ |access-date=2023-05-01 |website=[[WPLN-FM]] |language=en-US}}</ref> He opposes abortion and [[same-sex marriage]]. During the [[attempts to overturn the 2020 United States presidential election]], Ogles falsely claimed that [[Big lie#Donald Trump's false claims of a stolen election|it was stolen]], and was one of the original 19 congressmen to vote against [[Kevin McCarthy]] for [[Speaker of the United States House of Representatives|Speaker of the House]]. Ogles later voted for McCarthy after he was satisfied with concessions McCarthy had made.
Various claims Ogles has made about his education, career, political fundraising, and personal life have been disputed.<!--No citations are required in the article lead per [[MOS:LEADCITE]], as long as the content is cited in the article body, as it should be. Do not add missing-citation tags like {{cn}} to the lead. If necessary, {{not verified in body}} can be used, or the content removed.-->
==Early life and education==
Ogles was born on June 18, 1971. He describes himself as "a [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]] native with deep family roots in Tennessee dating back to the founding of the state."<ref name=About>{{Cite web|title=About Ogles|url=https://andyogles.com/about/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=Mayor Andy Ogles for Congress|date=September 16, 2019|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080244/https://andyogles.com/about/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ogles graduated from [[Franklin High School (Tennessee)|Franklin High School]] and later attended [[Western Kentucky University]] and [[Columbia State Community College]] from 1990 to 1993, studying allied language arts and English.<ref name="WTVF report">{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Phil |title=Businessman, economist, cop, international sex crimes expert? The stories of Congressman Andy Ogles |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/businessman-economist-cop-international-sex-crimes-expert-the-stories-of-congressman-andy-ogles |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] |date=February 16, 2023 |access-date=February 16, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles later studied at [[Middle Tennessee State University]] (MTSU), where he failed every course taken in the fall of 1995 and the fall of 1998; he returned to the university in 2007 and graduated with a 2.4 [[grade point average]], with a Bachelor of Science in Liberal Studies.<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=collegetranscript>{{cite news |last=Williams |first=Phil |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/tennessee-congressman-andy-ogles-didnt-want-you-to-see-his-college-transcript-we-got-it-anyway|title=Tennessee Congressman Andy Ogles didn't want you to see his college transcript! We got it anyway |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] |date=February 28, 2023 |access-date=February 28, 2023}}</ref> ''[[The Washington Post]]'' described Liberal Studies as "a general education degree typically for those who cannot settle on a major"; ''[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]]'' gave a similar description.<ref name=collegetranscript/><ref name=Wagner>{{cite news |last1=Wagner |first1=John |title=Embattled Rep. Ogles acknowledges misrepresenting his college major |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/ogles-republicans-santos/ |access-date=March 3, 2023 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=February 27, 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20230227151708/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/27/ogles-republicans-santos/ |archive-date=February 27, 2023}}</ref> Ogles said in late February 2023 that his failed university courses were due to "an interfamilial matter" that led him to abandon his studies "to financially support my family during a difficult time"; and that he eventually completed his studies with online courses.<ref name=Vlachou>{{cite news |last1=Vlachou |first1=Marita |title=Republican Rep. Andy Ogles Apologizes For 'Misstatement' About College Major |url=https://www.huffpost.com/entry/andy-ogles-education-history_n_63fde9ace4b0cab1fa312e64 |access-date=March 3, 2023 |work=[[Huffington Post]] |date=February 28, 2023}}</ref><ref name=Bartlett>{{cite news |last1=Bartlett |first1=Kerri |title=U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles admits he was 'mistaken' on the college degree he received |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/02/27/rep-andy-ogles-says-hes-mistaken-amid-undergrad-degree-backlash/69949206007 |access-date=March 3, 2023 |work=[[The Daily Herald]] |date=February 27, 2023}}</ref>
=== Disputed education details ===
After Ogles became a congressman in 2023, his congressional biography claimed that he received his degree from MTSU, "where he studied policy and economics."<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=collegetranscript/><ref name=Otten>{{cite magazine |last1=Otten |first1=Tori |title=GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Said He's an Economist, but He Barely Passed His One Econ Class in College |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/170802/gop-rep-andy-ogles-economist-barely-passed-econ-class-college |access-date=March 3, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Republic]] |date=February 28, 2023}}</ref> Ogles' claim was questioned by ''[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]]'' in February 2023, which published an investigatory report detailing that in a 2009 resume and also in a background check of unspecified date, Ogles claimed to have an MTSU degree in international relations, with minors in psychology and English.<ref name="WTVF report"/> ''NewsChannel 5'' additionally reported that MTSU declined to confirm Ogles' degree, referencing a federal law allowing students (like Ogles) the ability to block the release of academic records.<ref name="WTVF report"/> Ogles later spoke to [[WWTN]] radio, calling for everyone to "lock down your transcripts ... so you're not a victim of identity theft."<ref name=collegetranscript/> In other comments to WTTN made on February 21, 2023, Ogles said that he does not remember "saying I had an economics degree … because I've been quite clear that I studied political science and international relations", while maintaining that he studied political science from "the economic perspective".<ref name=bodyofwork>{{cite news |last1=Williams |first1=Phil |title='My body of work speaks for itself,' Tennessee Andy Ogles says in response to inflated résumé claims |url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/my-body-of-work-speaks-for-itself-tennessee-andy-ogles-says-in-response-to-inflated-resume-claims |access-date=March 3, 2023 |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] |date=February 22, 2023}}</ref>
On February 26, Ogles said that he was "mistaken" in claiming to have an MTSU degree in international relations, and claimed that he requested his college transcript the week before, and only learned then that his degree was actually in Liberal Studies.<ref name=collegetranscript/><ref name=Vlachou/><ref name=Kruesi>{{cite news |last1=Kruesi |first1=Kimberlee |title=Tennessee GOP congressman was 'mistaken' on college degree |url=https://apnews.com/article/tennessee-congressman-mistaken-degree-1f3c2b55a43b85bb649f04eb8cb29373 |access-date=March 2, 2023 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=March 1, 2023}}</ref> ''[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]]'' called Ogles's statement "apparently preemptive" because Ogles "ignored our requests for comment" after the media outlet obtained his MTSU transcript from an old job application.<ref name=collegetranscript/> On February 27, ''NewsChannel 5'' published Ogles's transcript, which showed that Ogles took only one economics course at a community college, scoring a C pass, while he passed nine (and failed several other) political science courses at MTSU.<ref name=collegetranscript/> By February 28, Ogles's congressional biography was edited to simply state: "Andy obtained his degree from MTSU."<ref name=Vlachou/>
==Business and early political career==
Ogles has worked as a restaurant operator and a real estate investor. His involvement in politics began when he became the first director of the Tennessee chapter of [[Americans for Prosperity]], a conservative political advocacy group. He later became involved with the [[Arthur Laffer|Laffer Center]], an organization that advocates for [[fiscal conservatism|fiscally conservative]] tax policy.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|last=Plazas|first=David|title=Meet Andy Ogles, candidate for U.S. House, Tennessee District 5|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/07/15/tennessee-aug-4-election-andy-ogles-candidate-congress-district-5/10066569002/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=[[The Tennessean]]|date=July 15, 2022|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205141/https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2022/07/15/tennessee-aug-4-election-andy-ogles-candidate-congress-district-5/10066569002/|url-status=live}}</ref> He has also been a [[Club for Growth]] Foundation fellow.<ref name="Club for Growth page">{{cite web|title=Andy Ogles (TN-5)|url=https://www.clubforgrowth.org/candidates/andy-ogles/|publisher=[[Club for Growth]]|date=2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles made two unsuccessful bids for elected office, a run for [[Tennessee's 4th congressional district|the state's 4th district]] in [[2002 United States House of Representatives elections#Tennessee|2002]] and for [[Tennessee Senate]] in 2006, losing in the Republican primary both times.<ref name=02primary>{{Cite web|title=Republican Congressional Primary Official Results|url=https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2002-8/us-house-rp8-02.pdf|publisher=Tennessee Secretary of State|access-date=August 26, 2022|date=August 1, 2002|archive-date=October 26, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201026191610/https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2002-8/us-house-rp8-02.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=06primary>{{Cite web|title=Republican State Senate Primary Official Results|url=https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2006-08/repts.pdf|publisher=Tennessee Secretary of State|access-date=August 26, 2022|date=August 3, 2006|archive-date=December 7, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221207074820/https://sharetngov.tnsosfiles.com/sos/election/results/2006-08/repts.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
In September 2017, Ogles announced he would challenge incumbent U.S. Senator [[Bob Corker]], whom he believed was insufficiently conservative, in the following year's primary. Two months later, Corker announced that he would retire instead of [[2018 United States Senate election in Tennessee|seeking the 2018 nomination]]. That led incumbent U.S. Representative [[Marsha Blackburn]], the eventual winner, and former representative [[Stephen Fincher]] to announce they would seek the seat, and as their campaigns were likely to be well-funded, Ogles announced shortly afterward that he would withdraw.<ref name="Tennesseean Corker story">{{cite news|last=Garrison|first=Joey|title=Republican Andy Ogles drops out of US Senate race in Tennessee|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/11/15/republican-andy-ogles-drops-out-tennessee-us-senate-race/866018001/|newspaper=[[The Tennessean]]|date=November 15, 2017|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
=== Disputed career claims ===
Ogles has repeatedly made public claims of being an "economist."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Hurley |first1=Bevan |title=GOP congressman apologises for claiming he was a trained economist – after taking one class in which he got a C |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-ogles-economist-gop-congressman-tennessee-b2290680.html |access-date=March 5, 2023 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=February 28, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Lerman |first1=David |title=GOP inflation reporting bill draws bipartisan House backing |url=https://rollcall.com/2023/03/01/gop-inflation-reporting-bill-draws-bipartisan-house-backing/ |access-date=March 5, 2023 |work=[[Roll Call]] |date=March 1, 2023}}</ref> After ''NewsChannel 5'' questioned how much formal training in economics Ogles had, he said he was an economist because when "you look at the body of someone's work ... I've spent the last decade working on economic policy and tax policy. "<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=bodyofwork/> During that time, Ogles had worked for roughly five years as an anti-tax lobbyist with Americans for Prosperity, and then for a year as the executive director of the Laffer Center, an organisation run by economist [[Arthur Laffer]].<ref name=bodyofwork/> The executive director position seemed to involve mainly "administrative" work, reported ''NewsChannel 5'', with Ogles not being named as an author of any economic reports uploaded on the Laffer Center's website.<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=bodyofwork/> Ogles' congressional website claims that "while working at the Laffer Center, Andy became a nationally recognized expert on tax policy and healthcare, having been featured in numerous publications, including ''The Wall Street Journal'' and ''Investor’s Business Daily''".<ref name="WTVF report"/> ''NewsChannel 5'' questioned this claim, being unable to find any articles in the publications independently citing him as an expert, only finding three columns written by Ogles in these publications, all of which were written when he was a lobbyist, ''before'' he worked for the Laffer Center.<ref name="WTVF report"/>
At a political debate, Ogles called himself "a former member of law enforcement, worked in international sex crimes, specifically [[child trafficking]]", while at a separate forum, he said: "I went into law enforcement. I worked in human trafficking."<ref name="WTVF report"/><ref name=Bartlett/> ''NewsChannel 5'' reported that Ogles was a volunteer reserve deputy with the Williamson County Sheriff's Office from 2009 to 2011, with his position revoked for failing to meet minimum standards, failing to progress in field training, and failing to attend required meetings.<ref name="WTVF report"/> The Williamson County Sheriff's Office said that records do not show Ogles trained or worked against international sex trafficking as a reserve deputy.<ref name="WTVF report"/> In 2011, Ogles worked as a chief operating officer for Abolition International, a non-profit organisation which described its work as giving grants to "holistic ministries".<ref name="WTVF report"/> Ogles indicated that since his stint at Abolition International overlapped his stint as a reserve deputy, "Maybe I created some of the confusion or maybe it was someone looking to write a story".<ref name=Kruesi/> While Ogles claimed he was "heavily involved in the fight against human trafficking", ''NewsChannel 5'' reported that Abolition International's tax records showed that Ogles worked in a part-time position that paid him $4,000 in total.<ref name="WTVF report"/> Ogles' congressional website originally claimed that Ogles was "overseeing operations and investments in 12 countries" for Abolition International; but ''NewsChannel 5'' disputed that number as too large; the website later amended its claim to overseeing operations and investments in “several countries.”<ref name=Wagner/><ref name=Vlachou/><ref name=Otten/>
===County mayoralty===
Initially considered a potential contender in the [[2018 Tennessee gubernatorial election]], Ogles instead saw his major first electoral success when he was elected mayor of [[Maury County, Tennessee|Maury County]] in the August 2, 2018, general election, defeating incumbent Charlie Norman.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Ebert|first=Joel|title=Tennessee's 2018 governor's race: Who's in, out, undecided|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/06/14/tennessees-2018-governors-race-whos-in-out-undecided/389328001/|access-date=September 28, 2022|work=[[The Tennessean]]|date=June 14, 2017|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205205/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2017/06/14/tennessees-2018-governors-race-whos-in-out-undecided/389328001/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|title=Republican Andy Ogles Unseats County Mayor Charlie Norman in Maury County|url=https://tennesseestar.com/2018/08/04/republican-andy-ogles-unseats-county-mayor-charlie-norman-in-maury-county/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=The Tennessee Star|date=August 4, 2018|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://tennesseestar.com/2018/08/04/republican-andy-ogles-unseats-county-mayor-charlie-norman-in-maury-county/|url-status=live}}</ref>
During his mayoralty, Ogles criticized Tennessee Governor [[Bill Lee (Tennessee politician)|Bill Lee]] for not restricting local school boards' ability to implement [[Face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic|mask mandates]] in response to the [[COVID-19 pandemic in Tennessee|COVID-19 pandemic]], calling for the state legislature to pass legislation to support his proposition in a special session.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Christen|first=Mike|title='It is time to stand': Mayor Ogles criticizes Gov. Lee for 'abuses of power,' calls for special session|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/11/maury-county-mayor-criticizes-gov-lee-abuse-power/8101289002/|access-date=August 26, 2022|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|location=[[Columbia, Tennessee]]|date=August 11, 2021|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/politics/2021/08/11/maury-county-mayor-criticizes-gov-lee-abuse-power/8101289002/|url-status=live}}</ref> He supported a sales tax increase that passed in 2020.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout campaign finance story">{{cite news |last=Stockard |first=Sam |date=July 26, 2022 |title=Ogles' late fundraising report shows less than touted in 5th Congressional District race |newspaper=Tennessee Lookout |publisher=[[States Newsroom]] |url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/07/26/ogles-late-fundraising-report-shows-less-than-touted-in-5th-congressional-district-race/ |access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Notice 20-08: Change of Local Tax Rate: Maury County|url=https://www.tn.gov/content/dam/tn/revenue/documents/notices/sales/sales20-08.pdf|publisher=[[Tennessee Department of Revenue]]|date=March 2020|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles initially filed to run for a second term as county mayor but withdrew to enter the race [[2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee#District 5|for the redrawn U.S. House of Representatives seat]] in [[Tennessee's 5th congressional district]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bartlett|first=Kelly|title=Ogles officially exits race for second term as Maury mayor, sets sights on Congress|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/04/14/andy-ogles-maury-county-tennessee-mayor-exits-election-congress-district-5/7320332001/|access-date=August 26, 2022|work=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|date=April 14, 2021|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/04/14/andy-ogles-maury-county-tennessee-mayor-exits-election-congress-district-5/7320332001/|url-status=live}}</ref> After he had announced his candidacy for Congress, a month before the Republican primary, he vetoed that year's county budget, along with the school and library budgets, over a 31-cent property tax hike (the first in six years) and what he considered the library's exposure of young children to inappropriate "woke" material. The county commission complained it had not been aware of any concerns Ogles had had over the budget, noting that he rarely attended meetings and had taken no part in the budget process. Ogles said that since he could not vote at the meetings it was not necessary for him to attend them and that he kept up by watching them online.<ref name="Daily Herald veto story">{{cite news|last=Bartlett|first=Kerri|title=Mayor Andy Ogles vetoes Maury property tax hike, county and school budgets in uncommon move|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/07/08/maury-county-property-tax-increase-mayor-andy-ogles-vetos/10016222002/|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|location=[[Columbia, Tennessee]]|date=July 8, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref> Two weeks later the county commission overrode the veto, citing Maury's status as the fastest-growing county in the state. Some commissioners and citizens commenting at that meeting accused Ogles of having vetoed the budget largely to bolster his credentials as a fiscal conservative in the upcoming primary; it was noted that his absence from that particular meeting might have been because it conflicted with a campaign event.<ref name="Daily Herald override story">{{cite news|last=Campbell|first=Dave|title=Maury commission overrides Mayor Andy Ogles' veto, restoring property tax hike, budget|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/07/19/maury-commission-overrides-mayor-andy-ogles-veto-restore-tax-hike-budget/10094243002/|newspaper=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|date=July 19, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
==U.S. House of Representatives==
===Election===
==== 2022 ====
{{further|2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Tennessee#District 5}}
====Primary====
Ogles seemed to some observers to have gotten off to a strong start in the primary, announcing that he had raised nearly half a million dollars in the campaign's first month. But when his disclosure report was actually filed, a week after the deadline, it showed that he had raised only $264,400, although he did have over $500,000 in total receipts. He explained that he had not counted a $320,000 personal loan to the campaign.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout campaign finance story" />
Among the many candidates, two stood out as serious challengers: former [[Tennessee House of Representatives|state House]] [[List of speakers of the Tennessee House of Representatives|Speaker]] [[Beth Harwell]], and retired U.S. Army Brigadier General Kurt Winstead. Ads by the Tennessee Conservatives [[Political Action Committee]] (TCPAC) called Ogles a "D.C. insider" and lobbyist who had failed to pay his property taxes nine times while supporting the sales tax hike and a marriage tax, as well as failing to vigorously oppose Maury County's recent property tax hike. Records showed that Ogles had indeed been from a few days to almost a year late paying taxes on his [[Franklin, Tennessee|Franklin]] home between 2005 and 2015, leading to interest charges. He filed a [[defamation]] suit against TCPAC. Ogles, in turn, was supported by [[super PAC]]s that ran ads attacking Harwell and Winstead as "too liberal for Tennessee."<ref name="Tennessee Lookout campaign finance story" />
On August 4, Ogles won the primary.<ref name="NashvillePost article">{{cite news|last1=Elliott|first1=Stephen|last2=Herner|first2=Hannah|title=Republican Andy Ogles wins redrawn 5th Congressional District|url=https://www.nashvillepost.com/politics/elections/republican-andy-ogles-wins-redrawn-5th-congressional-district/article_b6b2a93a-5fcd-11ed-8e1d-6b979c2caa27.html|newspaper=[[NashvillePost.com]]|date=November 8, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref><ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article">{{cite news|last1=Stockard|first1=Sam|last2=Wadhwani|first2=Anita|title=Ogles rolls past Campbell in revamped 5th Congressional District|url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/11/08/ogles-rolls-past-campbell-in-revamped-5th-congressional-district/|newspaper=Tennessee Lookout|publisher=[[States Newsroom]]|date=November 8, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
====General====
Ogles faced [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee [[Heidi Campbell (politician)|Heidi Campbell]] in the November general election. The district was previously a Democratic stronghold centered on Nashville, but has been redrawn as an area that voted for Republican [[Donald Trump]] by 12 percentage points in the [[2020 United States presidential election in Tennessee|2020 presidential election]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Humphrey |first=Mark |date=August 5, 2022 |title=Far-right candidate Andy Ogles wins GOP primary for Nashville U.S. House seat |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/far-right-andy-ogles-wins-republican-primary-tennessee-congress/ |access-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-date=August 26, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826093305/https://www.cbsnews.com/news/far-right-andy-ogles-wins-republican-primary-tennessee-congress/ |url-status=live }}</ref> This was done by [[gerrymandering|splitting Democratic-heavy Nashville into three congressional districts]].<ref name=":1" /> When the new district boundaries were announced, the Democratic incumbent decided to retire, calling the new district "unwinnable" for a Democrat.<ref name="NashvillePost article" />
On August 30, Ogles was succeeded as county mayor by [[Sheila Butt]], a former member of the [[Tennessee House of Representatives]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Williams|first=Toriana|title=Sheila Butt sworn in as Maury County's new county mayor|url=https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/08/30/sheila-butt-sworn-in-maury-county-mayor/7937785001/|access-date=August 31, 2022|work=[[Columbia Daily Herald]]|date=August 30, 2022|archive-date=August 31, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220831040801/https://www.columbiadailyherald.com/story/news/2022/08/30/sheila-butt-sworn-in-maury-county-mayor/7937785001/|url-status=live}}</ref> Ogles was endorsed by the [[House Freedom Caucus]], the [[House Republican Conference]]'s farthest-right bloc.<ref name=":0"/>
During the election, Ogles avoided the major local media in favor of conservative local talk radio and posted very little on social media. Early in the campaign, he made some appearances with a [[flamethrower]], saying he would use it on President [[Joe Biden]]'s work when he got to Washington.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" /> A late October appearance with Texas U.S. Senator [[Ted Cruz]] in [[Franklin, Tennessee|Franklin]] was announced in his first campaign-related Twitter post since he won the Republican primary. He declined all invitations to debate, drawing criticism from McCarthy.<ref name="WZTV post">{{cite news|last=Keller|first=Sydney|title=Nashville GOP front runner Andy Ogles, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz to visit Franklin|url=https://fox17.com/news/local/nashville-gop-front-runner-andy-ogles-texas-sen-ted-cruz-to-visit-franklin-tennessee-election|newspaper=[[WZTV]]|date=October 12, 2022|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles was slightly outraised and outspent.<ref name="NashvillePost article" /> He raised almost $1 million for his campaign, including the loan, and spent $573,000. In contrast, Campbell raised over $1 million, none of it in loans, and spent $679,000, largely on television ads.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" />
The election was complicated by local officials inadvertently sending 1,000 voters ballots with the wrong congressional or state legislative district elections on them, due to a mistake made with [[Davidson County, Tennessee|Davidson County]]'s [[geographic information system]] database. A lawsuit the Tennessee [[League of Women Voters]] chapter brought against the state that could have delayed voting in the county was settled at the last minute. As a result, 438 voters who had already cast the wrong ballot were allowed to vote on [[provisional ballot]]s that were only to be counted if the final margin was narrower than that number.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" />
Ogles won the general election in November with 56% of the vote to Campbell's 42%, becoming the first Republican to represent the state's 5th district since the 19th century<ref name="NashvillePost article" /> and leaving Nashville without any Democratic representatives in Congress for the first time in modern history.<ref name="Tennessee Lookout election article" />
===Tenure===
On January 1, 2023, Ogles signed a letter by fellow representatives [[Scott Perry (politician)|Scott Perry]] and [[Chip Roy]] expressing opposition to fellow Republican [[Kevin McCarthy]] in the upcoming [[January 2023 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election|house speakership election]] after McCarthy did not accept all their proposed House rules changes.<ref>{{cite web|title=House conservatives say McCarthy's efforts to address demands 'insufficient' ahead of Speaker election|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3795194-house-conservatives-say-mccarthys-efforts-to-address-demands-insufficient-ahead-of-speaker-election/|author=Dress, Brad|website=TheHill.com|publisher=The Hill|date=January 1, 2023|access-date=January 3, 2023|archive-date=January 2, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230102221838/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3795194-house-conservatives-say-mccarthys-efforts-to-address-demands-insufficient-ahead-of-speaker-election/|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 3, his first day in office, Ogles joined far-right House Republicans in voting against McCarthy on the first three ballots.<ref name=TT>{{cite web|title=US Rep. Andy Ogles opposes McCarthy's speakership bid joining other hardline conservatives|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/03/andy-ogles-opposes-mccarthy-bid-for-speaker-of-the-house/69773523007/|author=Adams, Liam|website=Tennessean.com|publisher=The Tennessean|date=January 3, 2023|access-date=January 3, 2023|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205140/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/03/andy-ogles-opposes-mccarthy-bid-for-speaker-of-the-house/69773523007/|url-status=live}}</ref> This was the first time since [[1923 Speaker of the United States House of Representatives election|1923]] that a speaker was not elected on the first ballot.<ref>{{cite web|title=Speaker Elections Decided by Multiple Ballots|url=https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Speakers-Multiple-Ballots/|website=History.House.gov|publisher=Office of the Historian and Clerk of the House's Office of Art and Archives|access-date=January 3, 2023|archive-date=August 6, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200806210715/https://history.house.gov/People/Office/Speakers-Multiple-Ballots/|url-status=live}}</ref> On January 6, after days of negotiations, Ogles voted for McCarthy on the 12th ballot, joining the rest of Tennessee's Republican [[List of United States representatives from Tennessee|delegation]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Ogles flips, backs McCarthy in 12th round of House speaker voting|url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/u-s-rep-elect-andy-ogles-supports-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-12th-vote/69785322007/|author=Adams, Liam|website=Tennessean.com|publisher=The Tennessean|date=January 6, 2023|access-date=January 7, 2023|archive-date=February 9, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205141/https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/politics/2023/01/06/u-s-rep-elect-andy-ogles-supports-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-12th-vote/69785322007/|url-status=live}}</ref> He explained in a statement that this was because he believed negotiations between McCarthy and the other holdouts were going well.<ref name="Tennessee Star McCarthy vote story">{{cite news|last=Houser|first=Kaitlin|title=TN-5 GOP Congressman Andy Ogles Explains 12th Round Vote for McCarthy in House Speaker Race|url=https://tennesseestar.com/2023/01/06/tn-5-gop-congressman-andy-ogles-explains-12th-round-vote-for-mccarthy-in-house-speaker-race/|newspaper=[[The Tennessee Star]]|date=January 6, 2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
Shortly after being sworn in, Ogles was appointed to the [[House Financial Services Committee]].<ref>{{cite news | last =Brooks | first =Emily | title =Handful of McCarthy detractors get new top committee assignments | newspaper =[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]] | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =January 11, 2023 | url =https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3809640-handful-of-mccarthy-detractors-get-new-top-committee-assignments/amp/ | accessdate =January 17, 2022 | archive-date =January 12, 2023 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20230112014044/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3809640-handful-of-mccarthy-detractors-get-new-top-committee-assignments/amp/ | url-status =live }}</ref>
The first bill Ogles introduced, the Inflation Reduction Act of 2023, would repeal [[Inflation Reduction Act of 2022|the previous year's Inflation Reduction Act]]. In his [[2023 State of the Union Address|State of the Union speech]], Biden mentioned the bill without mentioning Ogles's name, which Ogles took credit for in a subsequent tweet.<ref name="Tennessee Star SOTU story">{{cite news|last=Housler|first=Kaitlin|title=Biden Calls Out Tennessee U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles' Bill to Repeal the Inflation Reduction Act at State of the Union Address|url=https://tennesseestar.com/2023/02/08/biden-calls-out-tennessee-u-s-rep-andy-ogles-bill-to-repeal-the-inflation-reduction-act-at-state-of-the-union-address/|newspaper=[[The Tennessee Star]]|date=February 8, 2023|access-date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>
After the March 2023 [[2023 Covenant School shooting|Covenant School shooting]] in his district, Ogles released a statement that read in part: "My family and I are devastated by the tragedy that took place at The Covenant School in Nashville this morning. We are sending our thoughts and prayers to the families of those lost. As a father of three, I am utterly heartbroken by this senseless act of violence."<ref name="ogles-cov-statement-23">{{cite web |title=Rep. Ogles Statement on Covenant School Shooting |url=https://ogles.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-ogles-statement-covenant-school-shooting |publisher=Office of Congressman Andy Ogles |date=March 27, 2023}}</ref> Subsequently, photos re-circulated of Ogles's 2021 Christmas card, featuring a photo of him and his family posing with assault rifles.<ref name="/New Republic">{{cite web |title=The Internet Won't Let Nashville Rep. Andy Ogles Forget His Family Christmas Card After School Shooting |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/171411/nashville-rep-andy-ogles-family-christmas-card-school-shooting-guns|publisher=New Republic |date=March 27, 2023}}</ref>
Ogles is part of the [[Freedom Caucus]].<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Ivory |first1=Danielle |last2=Smart |first2=Charlie |last3=Yourish |first3=Karen |date=2023-01-04 |title=How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy? |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-republicans-vote-against-mccarthy.html |access-date=2023-03-25 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
== Political positions ==
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Media sources have characterized Ogles's political views as conservative<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-11-08 |title=Conservative Republican Ogles wins Nashville US House seat |url=https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-biden-donald-trump-legislature-255006070ded94e9bfff5f7aef696e78 |access-date=2023-02-19 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last1=Mattise |first1=Jonathan |last2=Kruesi |first2=Kimberlee |date=9 November 2022 |title=Conservative Republican Ogles Wins Nashville US House Seat |url=https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/tennessee/articles/2022-11-08/voters-choosing-new-rep-in-redrawn-nashville-district}}</ref> or far-right.<ref name=":12">{{Cite news |last=Humphrey |first=Mark |date=August 5, 2022 |title=Far-right candidate Andy Ogles wins GOP primary for Nashville U.S. House seat |work=CBS News |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/far-right-andy-ogles-wins-republican-primary-tennessee-congress/ |access-date=August 26, 2022}}</ref><ref name=":22">{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2022 |title=GOP front-runner lies low in open US House race in Nashville |url=https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-social-media-campaigns-7069366a86f36ab7f49d5abd42f79a97 |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}</ref>
Ogles opposes abortion and [[same-sex marriage]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Stockard |first=Sam |date=October 4, 2022 |title=Tennessee's new 5th congressional district features Trump Republican vs. progressive Democrat |url=https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/04/tennessees-new-5th-congressional-district-features-trump-republican-vs-progressive-democrat/ |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=Tennessee Lookout |language=en-US |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165559/https://tennesseelookout.com/2022/10/04/tennessees-new-5th-congressional-district-features-trump-republican-vs-progressive-democrat/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In a 2022 interview, he downplayed the need for exceptions in an abortion bill, calling them "red herrings".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gainey |first=Blaise |date=October 10, 2022 |title=Democrat Heidi Campbell faces Republican Andy Ogles for Tennessee's 5th District. Their opposing stances on abortion could shape the race. |url=https://wpln.org/post/democrat-heidi-campbell-faces-republican-andy-ogles-for-tennessees-5th-district-their-opposing-stances-on-abortion-could-shape-the-race/ |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=wpln.org |language=en-US |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165602/https://wpln.org/post/democrat-heidi-campbell-faces-republican-andy-ogles-for-tennessees-5th-district-their-opposing-stances-on-abortion-could-shape-the-race/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2022, after the repeal of ''[[Roe v. Wade]]'', Ogles said, "The next thing we have to do is go after gay marriage."<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |date=October 4, 2022 |title=GOP front-runner lies low in open US House race in Nashville |url=https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-social-media-campaigns-7069366a86f36ab7f49d5abd42f79a97 |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=AP NEWS |language=en |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165558/https://apnews.com/article/abortion-2022-midterm-elections-social-media-campaigns-7069366a86f36ab7f49d5abd42f79a97 |url-status=live }}</ref>
Ogles has called for the [[Federal impeachment in the United States|impeachment]] of President [[Joe Biden]] and Vice President [[Kamala Harris]], and for [[treason]] charges to be brought against Secretary of Homeland Security [[Alejandro Mayorkas]].<ref name=":1" /> He has called for the [[United States Department of Education]] to be defunded.<ref>{{Cite web |date=September 2, 2022 |title=Andy Ogles talks abortion, Jan. 6, economy in 1-on-1 interview |url=https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/andy-ogles-talks-abortion-jan-6-economy-in-1-on-1-interview/ |access-date=October 17, 2022 |website=WKRN News 2 |language=en-US |archive-date=October 17, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221017165602/https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/andy-ogles-talks-abortion-jan-6-economy-in-1-on-1-interview/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Ogles denies the legitimacy of the [[2020 United States presidential election]].<ref name= HFR>{{cite news | last1 =Ivory | first1 =Danielle | last2 =Smart | first2 =Charlie | last3 =Yourish | first3 =Karen | title =How Far Right Are the 20 Republicans Who Voted Against McCarthy? | newspaper =[[New York Times]] | location = | pages = | language = | publisher = | date =January 17, 2023 | url =https://nyti.ms/3GhDooM | accessdate =January 17, 2023 | archive-date =February 9, 2023 | archive-url =https://web.archive.org/web/20230209205141/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/01/04/us/politics/house-speaker-republicans-vote-against-mccarthy.html | url-status =live }}</ref>
Ogles supports [[school choice]], [[term limits]], deregulating health care, and lower taxes. He opposes [[Earmark (politics)|earmarks]].<ref name="Club for Growth page" />
Ogles was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the [[Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023]] in the House.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/house/4029522-republicans-and-democrats-who-bucked-party-leaders-by-voting-no/|title=Republicans and Democrats who bucked party leaders by voting no|first=Jared|last=Gans|date=May 31, 2023|access-date=June 6, 2023|work=[[The Hill (newspaper)|The Hill]]}}</ref>
==Personal life==
Ogles lives on a farm in [[Culleoka, Tennessee]] with his wife, Monica, and their three children.<ref name=About />
===Child burial garden controversy===
In 2014, Ogles and his wife had a stillborn child, Lincoln, whose photograph Ogles has used in social media posts. Ogles set up a [[GoFundMe]] to finance a child burial garden in Lincoln's memory, which was to contain a "life-size statue of Jesus watching over the children, benches for families to sit while surrounded by flowers in the special garden" that was to be "a place for Lincoln's new play friends as they wait in Heaven to their families".<ref name=Phil>{{cite news |work=[[WTVF|NewsChannel 5]] | first1=Phil |last1=Williams | url=https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/what-did-congressman-andy-ogles-do-with-nearly-25-000-meant-for-child-burial-garden-he-wont-say | title=What did Congressman Andy Ogles do with nearly $25,000 meant for child burial garden? He won't say | date=March 15, 2023 }}</ref> Nearly $25,000 was raised, and GoFundMe confirmed that Ogles received the money.<ref name=Phil/> In 2023, a director of Williamson Memorial Funeral Home told ''NewsChannel 5'' that eight years earlier she had planned to meet Ogles's family to "help organize a unified effort to aid parents dealing with the financial and emotional trauma of burying children", but that they "never came back to us".<ref name=Phil/> The manager of the cemetery hosting Lincoln told ''NewsChannel 5'' that he had met Ogles and proposed that Ogles buy several plots of land at the cemetery, but the manager did not know what became of the money.<ref name=Phil/> At least one donor demanded their money back and received a refund.<ref name=Phil/>
In 2015, Ogles told ''[[The Tennessean]]'' that "burials are heavily regulated", and that the $23,575 he had raised on GoFundMe had not been spent.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilemon |first1=Tom |title=Trauma, cost of child burials behind new aid effort |url=https://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/2015/05/22/efforts-coalesce-aid-child-burials/27814059/ |access-date=March 28, 2023 |work=[[The Tennessean]] |date=May 26, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Otten |first1=Tori |title=GOP Rep. Andy Ogles Seems to Have Kept $25,000 From a GoFundMe for a Child Burial Garden |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/171183/andy-ogles-25000-gofundme-child-burial-garden |access-date=March 28, 2023 |magazine=[[The New Republic|New Republic]] |date=March 16, 2023}}</ref> In 2022, Ogles spoke publicly about difficulties he experienced in getting his family's health insurers to pay his wife's medical bills after Lincoln was stillborn, and blamed [[Obamacare]] for the problems.<ref name=Phil/>
In 2023, Ogles refused to respond to ''NewsChannel 5'' when its reporters questioned him on the topic, but he later released a statement to ''The Tennessee Star'' claiming that the funds raised were used to pay for burials of children of other families.<ref name="Graziosi">{{cite news |last1=Graziosi |first1=Graig |title=GOP congressman accused of lying on resume faces questions over $25k funds for child burial garden |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/andy-ogles-gofundme-child-burial-garden-b2302378.html |access-date=March 28, 2023 |work=[[The Independent]] |date=March 16, 2023}}</ref> The statement quoted Andy Miller as corroborating Ogles's claim; ''The Independent'' cited reporting that Miller is a known Republican Party donor in Tennessee, whose business in 2016 paid $7.8 million to settle allegations of fraud in a federal case.<ref name="Graziosi"/><ref>{{cite news |title=GOP donor Andy Miller settled federal fraud case for $7.8M |url=http://www.tnledger.com/editorial/article.aspx?id=91848 |access-date=March 28, 2023 |work=[[Tennessee Ledger]] |agency=[[Associated Press]]}}</ref> Ogles called ''NewsChannel 5''<nowiki/>'s research and reporting on the subject "disgusting" and "vile".<ref name="Graziosi"/>
==Electoral history==
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| title = [[United States House of Representatives Elections in Tennessee, 2022]]: District 5<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.elections.tn.gov/results.php?ByType=US%20House |title=Tennessee US House Election Results |website=Tennessee Secretary of State |access-date=November 13, 2022 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221110052708/https://www.elections.tn.gov/results.php?ByType=US%20House |archive-date=November 10, 2022}}</ref>
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 123,358
| percentage = 55.87
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Heidi Campbell (politician)|Heidi Campbell]]
| party = Democratic Party (United States)
| votes = 93,375
| percentage = 42.29
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Derrick Brantley
| party = Independent politician
| votes = 2,083
| percentage = 0.94
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Daniel Cooper
| party = Independent politician
| votes = 1,125
| percentage = 0.51
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Rich Shannon
| party = Independent politician
| votes = 846
| percentage = 0.38
}}
{{Election box total no change
| votes = 220,787
| percentage = 100
}}
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| title = Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District Republican Primary Results, 2022
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 21,298
| percentage = 36.9
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Beth Harwell]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 14,998
| percentage = 26.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Kurt Winstead
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 12,709
| percentage = 22.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Jeff Beierlien
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,086
| percentage = 7.1
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Natisha Brooks
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,740
| percentage = 3.0
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Geni Batchelor
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,016
| percentage = 1.8
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Timothy Bruce Lee
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 843
| percentage = 1.5
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Stewart T. Parks
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 585
| percentage = 1.0
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Tres Wittum
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 397
| percentage = 0.7
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 57,672
| percentage = 100.0
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{{Election box begin no change
| title = Maury County Mayoral election, 2018 <ref>{{Cite web|title=August 2, 2018 Maury County Election Results|url=https://www.maurycounty-tn.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/57|publisher=Maury County Government|access-date=August 26, 2022|date=August 2, 2018|archive-date=August 26, 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220826080242/https://www.maurycounty-tn.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/57|url-status=live}}</ref>
}}
{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 6,843
| percentage = 36.53
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Charlie Norman (incumbent)
| party = Independent (United States)
| votes = 5,387
| percentage = 28.75
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Sonny Shackelford
| party = Independent (United States)
| votes = 5,031
| percentage = 26.85
}}
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| party = Independent (United States)
| votes = 1,474
| percentage = 7.87
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|votes = 18,735
|percentage = 100.0
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| winner = Republican Party (United States)
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| title = Tennessee’s 23rd Senate District Republican Primary Results, 2006<ref name=06primary />
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Jack Johnson (American politician)|Jack Johnson]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,623
| percentage = 30.72
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Ray "Chip" T. Throckmorton, III
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,351
| percentage = 28.91
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Tom Neill
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 3,408
| percentage = 22.64
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Jeff Ford
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,662
| percentage = 11.04
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Bob Barnwell
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 698
| percentage = 4.64
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 309
| percentage = 2.05
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 15,051
| percentage = 100.0
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{{Election box winning candidate with party link no change
| candidate = [[Janice Bowling]]
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 20,709
| percentage = 37.10
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mike Greene
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 13,563
| percentage = 24.30
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Andy Ogles
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 8,201
| percentage = 14.69
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = John Bumpus
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 7,245
| percentage = 12.98
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Mike Coffield
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 4,991
| percentage = 8.94
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Harvey Howard
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 1,063
| percentage = 1.91
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{{Election box candidate with party link no change
| candidate = Write-ins
| party = Republican Party (United States)
| votes = 41
| percentage = 0.07
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{{Election box total no change
| votes = 55,813
| percentage = 100.0
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== See also ==
* [[Madison Cawthorn]], former North Carolina congressman found to have significantly misrepresented his personal history
* [[Dan Johnson (Kentucky politician)|Dan Johnson]], Kentucky state legislator who died by suicide in 2017 after fabrications about his past were revealed
* [[Anna Paulina Luna]], Florida congresswoman found to have significantly misrepresented her personal history and family background
* [[Douglas R. Stringfellow]], former Utah congressman found to have significantly misrepresented his personal & military history
==References==
{{Reflist}}
==External links==
* [http://ogles.house.gov/ Congressman Andy Ogles] official U.S. House website
* [https://andyogles.com/ Andy Ogles for Congress] campaign website
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* {{C-SPAN|74468}}
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