Russell Fry

Russell Fry lives in Murrells Inlet with his wife, Bronwen, their son and a chocolate Labrador named Jasper.¹ He is an Eagle Scout.¹ His party biography describes a childhood in a cinderblock home without heating or air conditioning as his parents worked and saved for their family.²

Fry earned his undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina and his law degree at Charleston School of Law, where he served as Student Bar Association president.¹ He practiced law along the Grand Strand for more than a decade before moving from the state legislature to Congress.¹

In the South Carolina House, he represented Horry County, served as chief majority whip and chaired the Opioid Abuse Prevention Study Committee.¹ He entered Congress in January 2023.³ He sponsored the Trafficking Survivors Relief Act, signed into law in January 2026.⁴ The law creates a federal process allowing trafficking survivors to seek relief from certain convictions and arrest records resulting from their exploitation.⁵

Fry advocates completing the border wall, reducing federal spending and regulation, and expanding domestic energy production.⁶ He also supports congressional term limits, a ban on members trading individual stocks, and education funding that follows students to their families' chosen schools.⁶ He faces Democrat John Vincent.⁷