1. Timothy Patrick Sheehy is an American politician, businessman, aerial firefighter, and former Navy SEAL serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Montana.
16 Facts About Tim Sheehy
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Tim Sheehy ran in the 2024 United States Senate election in Montana as a Republican.
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Tim Sheehy left active duty in 2014 and was discharged from the Navy Individual Ready Reserve in 2019.
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Tim Sheehy wrote in his memoir and in a resume submitted to the Montana State Legislature that he had been medically discharged due to wounds received in Afghanistan.
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In 2015, Tim Sheehy was awarded a Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.
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In 2023, Tim Sheehy published a memoir, Mudslingers: A True Story of Aerial Firefighting.
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In 2024, Tim Sheehy resigned as Bridger's CEO to focus on his Senate campaign.
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Tim Sheehy was facing a dire financial situation: it had lost $77.4 million in 2023 and $20.1 million in the first four months of 2024.
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In 2020, Tim Sheehy co-founded the Little Belt Cattle Company with Greg Putnam, another former Navy SEAL, who runs the day-to-day operations of the nearly 20,000-acre working cattle ranch, which borders over 500,000 acres of national forest.
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Tim Sheehy manages its own supply chain of sustainably raised Montana beef.
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In June 2023, Tim Sheehy announced he would run as a Republican against three-term Democratic incumbent Jon Tester in the 2024 United States Senate election in Montana.
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Tim Sheehy was among the wealthiest candidates running for Senate.
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Tim Sheehy said that young women had been "indoctrinated" on the issue of abortion.
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Tim Sheehy has said "public lands belong in public hands" to protect rights to hunt, fish, and recreate, and that more local collaboration and input is needed since "Montanans know best how to manage our lands, not the Washington bureaucrats".
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Tim Sheehy was on the board of the Bozeman-based Property and Environment Research Center, a nonprofit free market environmentalism think tank.
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Tim Sheehy was involved in a 2019 plane crash in which he was a student pilot and there was a flight instructor.