George Whitesides
American businessman and politician (born 1974)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, CA-27 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, CA-27 · General · Democratic · result not on file · source
Background
George Thomas Whitesides is an American politician and businessman who has served as the U.S. representative for California's 27th congressional district since 2025. He was previously chief of staff at NASA and CEO of Virgin Galactic.
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He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Campaign finance
$3,963,530total raised (2026 cycle)
$1,735,347total spent (2026 cycle)
$2,554,917cash on hand (2026 cycle)
As of 2026-06-30 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_T._Whitesides
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4CA27111/
- photo_headshot — https://github.com/unitedstates/images
- photo_action — https://whitesides.house.gov
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