Meet Seth
Seth Moulton is a father, a husband, a Marine, and a Democrat with a mission to bring a new generation of leaders to Congress.
He was first challenged to serve our country by the pastor of his college church, Reverend Peter Gomes, who told him that it’s not enough salute the flag — everyone needs to find their own way to serve their country. Inspired by his call to action, Seth decided to enlist in the United States Marine Corps in 2001, days after graduating from college and months before the attacks on 9/11.
As the leader of an infantry platoon, he was among the first Americans to reach Baghdad in 2003. He served four tours in Iraq — a war he disagreed with and spoke out against, but one he was proud to serve in so no one else had to go in his place.
After returning home from Iraq, Seth used the G.I. Bill to earn joint graduate degrees in business and public administration before becoming the Managing Director of Texas Central working to build America’s first high-speed rail line.
It wasn't long before he was called to serve once again, this time in his home district in Massachusetts. Challenging an entrenched incumbent Congressman, Seth ran for Congress in 2014 and won on a platform of bringing a new generation of leadership to Washington. He was the only Democratic challenger to win in a primary that year.
Seth sits on three committees in Congress: The House Armed Services Committee, where he serves as Ranking Member on the Subcommittee on Strategic Forces; the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, where he is the Congressional leader on high-speed rail and next-generation infrastructure; and the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the U.S. and the Chinese Communist Party, which was created to shape a diplomatic, economic, and military relations in a way that preserves American leadership and avoids war.
Seth’s legislative accomplishments include securing a national 3-digit hotline for the national Suicide and Crisis Lifeline (988), delivering faster care for veterans, modernizing government travel, and making ALS disability insurance more comprehensive and accessible.
Seth’s American High-Speed Rail Act is the most ambitious and forward-thinking infrastructure package before Congress today, and he wrote the G.I. Bill Restoration Act to finally restore veterans benefits to the families of Black Americans who were denied them after serving our country since World War II.
Seth is the only Member of Congress to earn Democracy Awards from the Congressional Management Foundation in three separate years: one in 2018 for Transparency, another in 2020 for constituent service, and again in 2022 for innovation and modernization.
Back home in Massachusetts’ Sixth District, Seth works to support small businesses and veterans, advance civil rights, and develop the local economy. Through his work on the Armed Services Committee, he has helped bring more than $1 billion in federal funding to Lynn, and he forged an unprecedented partnership between fishermen and scientists to ensure the long-term sustainability of fish stocks and the local fishing economy.
He has also been a champion for investments in research and is a leading voice for infrastructure projects like the Rail Link, which will connect the Commonwealth and complete the Northeast Corridor by enabling all trains to flow through the city rather than terminating at North and South Stations.
Seth is the proud father of two girls, Emmy and Caroline, and husband to his wife, Liz. They live in Salem, Massachusetts.
