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Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)
Senate · Republican (most recent term) · AL · in Congress 1997–2017 · Bioguide ID S001141
Party history: R 1997–2017. Source: term data in unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0); party shown is as recorded per term there.
Estimated net worth (from public disclosures)
| Estimate | Report year | Low | Mid | High |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| (a) Estimated net worth at the earliest available report (2013); the member entered office earlier, in 1997 | 2013 | $2,595,057 | $6,722,528 | $10,849,998 |
| (b) Latest net worth estimate | 2015 | $2,877,074 | $7,241,036 | $11,604,997 |
| (c) Estimated gain / loss, nominal dollars, 2013 → 2015 (2 years spanned) | 2013–2015 | −$7,972,924 | +$518,508 | +$9,009,940 |
Gain Low = latest Low − earliest High; Gain High = latest High − earliest Low (widest possible spread); Mid = latest Mid − earliest Mid.
Reliability flags (net worth): short span (2 yr). Not in the recommended dollar-gain ranking (shown only in the full list).
Net worth by report year (mid; Low–High)
| Report year | Assets (mid) | Liabilities (mid) | Net worth mid | Low … High | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | $7,472,528 | $750,001 | $6,722,528 | $2,595,057 … $10,849,998 | computed |
| 2014 | $7,513,035 | $550,001 | $6,963,034 | $2,811,070 … $11,114,998 | computed |
| 2015 | $7,966,037 | $725,002 | $7,241,036 | $2,877,074 … $11,604,997 | computed |
- What this is: Net worth = Schedule A assets (each value range at its midpoint; low–high range shown) minus Schedule D liabilities (midpoints / ranges). Low = assets at range floors minus liabilities at range ceilings; Mid = midpoints; High = assets at ceilings minus liabilities at floors. Low and High are outer bounds of the reported ranges, not likely outcomes.
- What it excludes / understates: exact values (only ranges are reported); a personal residence is not reported as an asset (although a mortgage on it may be listed as a liability, which then lowers the estimate); retirement and federal accounts (e.g. Thrift Savings Plan, defined-benefit pensions) are only partly or not reported; assets of excepted/blind trusts, cash held below reporting thresholds, vehicles, household goods and most spouse/dependent items exempt from reporting are not included; liabilities on a personal residence, revolving credit under thresholds and loans to family may be omitted by filers.
- Open-ended top ranges (e.g. “Over $50,000,000”) are counted at their lower bound and flagged, so such values are understated.
- The change is a change in estimated net worth in nominal dollars (no inflation adjustment). It includes salary, gifts, inheritances, business income and re-valuation as well as investment results, and it is subject to range-bracket noise; it is not an investment return and implies nothing about conduct.
Read this first. Members report asset values only as ranges (e.g. “$15,001 – $50,000”), never exact dollars. Every figure below is an estimate computed from range midpoints, not a measured return. Figures cannot be interpreted as investment performance, and they do not show wrongdoing or skill. Methodology and limitations are at the end and in the project README. Sources: public financial disclosure reports filed with the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives and/or the Secretary of the Senate (Senate eFD), linked below.
Limited data – not ranked. Only 2 comparable year-pair(s) could be computed (minimum 3 to rank). 3 annual filing(s) were usable (text-readable, validated OCR, or validated X-mark decoding) and 0 scanned/image-only filing(s) could not be used (older layouts failing validation, small amendments not integrated). See the method-per-year section below.
Estimated year-over-year change
Bars: midpoint estimate; whisker: same-position floor/ceiling band. Axis clipped to −100%…+150%. Years with insufficient traceable holdings are omitted.
| Year (t−1 → t) | Opening value (mid) | Closing value (mid) | Income (mid) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) | Est. gain | Same-position band | Strict envelope | Traced coverage | Status / flags |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013→2014 | $6,853,022 | $6,687,522 | $83,560 | $0 | $0 | -1.2% | -2.4% … -0.8% | -106% … +103% | 92% | counted |
| 2014→2015 | $7,188,030 | $7,538,530 | $21,510 | $75,000 | $0 | +4.1% | +3.6% … +5.8% | -103% … +111% | 96% | counted |
Filings used
Each annual-report year uses one filing (most recently filed version among originals/amendments whose Schedule A row count is ≥ 40% of the largest). Electronic (text) PDFs are parsed. Scanned/image-only filings are OCR-read and used only if they pass the explicit validation gates described in the project README (value/income coverage, two-engine agreement, exact bracket snapping, page completeness, year-to-year position continuity); such years are labelled OCR-derived below. Scanned filings that fail validation are listed as “insufficient data – scanned”.
| Report year | Doc ID | Type | Filed | Schedule A rows | Rows with unparsed value | Source (official filing) / SHA-256 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | f55922f5-214c-44e1-a9ee-0caa2f8e4b30 | Senate annual | 05/15/2014 | 57 | 0 | Senate eFD report9c2d3f096c6370ae208af0eaeb8abe6d3f7fe633d6c1169a8a27dcdb647dc98e |
| 2014 | 5d6ad9d4-36e5-49ff-a891-6580e606d6ba | Senate annual | 05/15/2015 | 70 | 0 | Senate eFD report23d93f22d0d63af0f159eeeabd051dc102b922bceb8e743f14bf7cdbca061caf |
| 2015 | 851a4323-df0e-433b-986b-591ed2311f0a | Senate amendment | 01/27/2017 | 74 | 0 | Senate eFD report2f7fc2690e487522a4f24520187ff49d2737f2ee8b791724e42dd7a826e3dbe6 |
Largest movers 2013→2014
| Position (as written in filing) | Owner | Kind | Opening range(s) | Closing range(s) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate Description: Choctaw #7 - 80.0 acres (Choctaw County, Alabama) | — | held | $250,001 - $500,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VMMXX - Vanguard Money Market Reserves (NASDAQ) | SP | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $15,001 - $50,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VMMXX - Vanguard Money Market Reserves (NASDAQ) | — | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $15,001 - $50,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank NA (Fairhope, AL) Type: Money Market Account | SP | held | $1,001 - $15,000; $15,001 - $50,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VPCCX - Vanguard PRIMECAP Core Inv (NASDAQ) | JT | held | $50,001 - $100,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VTSAX - Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Idx Adm (NASDAQ) | SP | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $50,001 - $100,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VMVAX - Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Admiral (NASDAQ) | SP | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $50,001 - $100,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank NA (Fairhope, AL) Type: Money Market Account | — | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
Largest movers 2014→2015
| Position (as written in filing) | Owner | Kind | Opening range(s) | Closing range(s) | Buys (mid) | Sales (mid) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Real Estate Description: Choctaw #7 - 80.0 acres (Choctaw County, Alabama) | — | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $250,001 - $500,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank NA (Fairhope, AL) Type: Money Market Account | — | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $15,001 - $50,000 | $0 | $0 |
| Morgan Stanley Bank NA (Fairhope, AL) Type: Money Market Account | SP | held | $100,001 - $250,000 | $15,001 - $50,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VMMXX - Vanguard Money Market Reserves (NASDAQ) | — | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VFSUX - Vanguard Short-Term Investment-Grade Adm (NASDAQ) | — | held | $50,001 - $100,000 | $100,001 - $250,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VWILX - Vanguard International Growth Adm | — | new | — | $100,001 - $250,000 | $75,000 | $0 |
| VMVAX - Vanguard Mid-Cap Value Index Admiral (NASDAQ) | — | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $50,001 - $100,000 | $0 | $0 |
| VMMXX - Vanguard Money Market Reserves (NASDAQ) | JT | held | $15,001 - $50,000 | $1,001 - $15,000 | $0 | $0 |
Method (summary)
- Schedule A asset rows are read from each annual report; the dollar range for each row is converted to its midpoint. Open-ended top ranges (“Over $50,000,000”) are excluded from the traced set and counted as a coverage loss.
- Positions are matched year to year by owner code (self/SP/DC/JT) + normalised asset name. A position that appears only in year t is included only if Schedule B shows a purchase of it in year t (opening value 0); a position that disappears is included only if Schedule B shows a sale (closing value 0). Otherwise it is excluded as unexplained.
- Estimated gain = (closing − opening + reported income − purchases + sale proceeds) ÷ opening, all at midpoints, for the traced positions. “Capital gains” income is not added again (it is already in value change and sale proceeds).
- A year counts only if traced opening value ≥ $50,000 and traced coverage ≥ 60% of the opening midpoint. A member is ranked only with ≥ 3 such years (exactly 2 = “limited data”, shown but unranked). Average = geometric mean of (1+yearly estimate).
Limitations
- Ranges are wide (up to a factor of 5 or more, and up to $50M+ open-ended); a holding can move between ranges without any real change in value, and stay in a range while moving materially. Yearly estimates are therefore noisy; the “strict envelope” shows the mathematical worst/best case and is typically wider than ±100%.
- Purchases and sales are only disclosed as ranges and only for transactions over $1,000; partial sales, dividend reinvestment, spousal/dependent accounts and retirement-plan funds are reported inconsistently. Excepted/blind trusts, personal residences and certain pensions are not reported at all.
- Filers sometimes change how they list assets (e.g. listing a brokerage account vs. its individual holdings), which can make positions untraceable across years; these are excluded rather than guessed.
- Asset values in an annual report are as of Dec 31 of the reporting year; the report year t−1→t covers that calendar year. Late or amended filings are used when filed; extensions can delay them.
- The text of these reports is machine-parsed from PDFs; parse errors are possible. Every number links back to the cited filing. This is not investment advice.
- Use of these filings is restricted by 5 U.S.C. § 105(c) (no unlawful, commercial or credit-rating purpose, and none for solicitation of money).
Generated 2026-10-01 by an automated pipeline. Data: Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives (disclosures-clerk.house.gov); member roster: unitedstates/congress-legislators (CC0).