The person behind the name
Chuck Gray's public career runs from three terms in the Wyoming House, where he carried the state's voter ID law, to the Secretary of State's office, which he has used to press for proof of citizenship and residency at registration, to end ballot drop boxes, and to take on the governor from inside the state's five-member boards.
The official biography states neither a birth year nor a birthplace. By his own account at a July 2022 candidate forum in Casper, reported by WyoFile, he spent childhood summers in Wyoming with his father and became a permanent resident of the state in 2012; his campaign lists a Casper post-office box as its address. He represented House District 57, in Natrona County, from 2017, after the 2016 election, until he took statewide office in January 2023. [1][43][3][53]
Education and professional preparation
His official biography reports a Bachelor of Science in economics from the Wharton School, awarded in 2012; WyoFile reported in 2022 that his legislative biography listed both a bachelor of science and a bachelor of arts from the University of Pennsylvania. On the financial-disclosure forms required of Wyoming legislators he listed a single employer, Mount Rushmore Broadcasting, a Delaware-registered company with radio stations in Casper of which his father, Jan Charles Gray, is president according to state records — first as a program director and later as operations manager; WyoFile reported that his 2022 campaign site said he began there in 2013 as a radio executive and host of a conservative radio show and worked there until 2019. WyoFile also reported that the company had been administratively dissolved by the state in 2003 for failing to file annual reports and pay fees, and that Gray declined to answer its questions about his duties. Degree years beyond the graduation year, and any other employment, were not part of this review. [1][43]
From the Legislature to the Secretary of State's office
He won the House District 57 Republican primary on August 16, 2016 with 738 votes to Ray Pacheco's 520, and the general election that November with 2,261 votes to 1,252 for Democrat Audrey Cotherman. The official biography records three terms and service on the Minerals, Business and Economic Development; Agriculture, State and Public Lands; Revenue; Judiciary; and Management Audit committees. In 2021 he challenged Representative Liz Cheney for the U.S. House and suspended that campaign on September 14, 2021, after President Trump endorsed Harriet Hageman. The next year he ran for Secretary of State with Trump's endorsement and won the August 16, 2022 Republican primary with 75,972 votes, 48.3 percent of the votes recorded in the race, over Senator Tara Nethercott's 63,069; no Democrat ran, and in November he was the only name on the ballot, receiving 147,402 votes. [8][9][1][47][43][44][6][7]
On December 29, 2025, after Hageman announced for the Senate earlier that month, he became the first candidate to enter the race for Wyoming's lone House seat. In the August 18, 2026 Republican primary he received 31,224 votes, 24.9 percent of the 125,371 votes recorded for the nine listed candidates, a withdrawn candidate and write-ins, ahead of Steve Friess with 25,059 and Kevin Christensen with 21,633. He faces Democrat Lisa Kinney, a former state senator who lives in Laramie and won her primary with 9,344 votes, in the November 3, 2026 general election. [41][5][38][49][51][10]
A note on campaign finance. Cowboy State Daily reported that his father funded nearly all of his brief House run in the 2022 cycle and gave $500,000, 95 percent of the funds, to the 2022 Secretary of State campaign; WyoFile's reading of the August 2022 state filing likewise found that most of the almost $528,000 raised came from direct donations from his father. In 2026 a super PAC funded solely by his father spent on the House race, and a 2022 complaint to the Federal Election Commission about a loan Gray made to his own congressional campaign was closed in 2023 after the Commission found, 6–0, no reason to believe any violation had occurred. The details are in the fuller record below. [48][43][39][46]
Life & public service
From a Casper radio company to the Legislature, the Secretary of State's office and a congressional nomination, the documented milestones show how the record was built.
The ultrasound-information law
His first-session bill, HB 182, requiring physicians to give specified information before non-emergency abortions, passed the House 41–17 and the Senate 20–10 and was signed on March 9, 2017. [12]
A coal-litigation bill, vetoed
HB 251, his bill authorizing the Legislature to sue over denied coal-export-terminal permits with a $250,000 appropriation, passed 49–10 and 22–7; Governor Mark Gordon's veto message is dated March 15, 2019 and the Legislature recorded the veto on March 18. [13][57][40]
Proof of citizenship and residency
HB 156, the first item of his election-integrity agenda, became law without the governor's signature on March 21; the office announced on July 7 that he had signed an agreement with the Department of Homeland Security for the SAVE database; a federal challenge to the law was dismissed for lack of standing on July 22. [21][14][22][23][24]
A bid for Congress
Announced for the U.S. House on December 29, 2025, the first candidate in the race to succeed Hageman. [41]
Accomplishments, in the record
Legislative records, court opinions, official canvasses and the office's own releases establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another official's initiative and with the office's own accounts labeled as such.
The ultrasound-information law
In his first session Gray was lead sponsor of HB 182, an act requiring physicians to provide patients with specified information before certain non-emergency abortion procedures. It passed the House 41–17 on February 3, 2017, the Senate 20–10 on February 27, and the House again on concurrence 47–12; the governor signed it as Chapter 187 on March 9, 2017, effective July 1. The official biography calls it the first pro-life bill passed in thirty years, a characterization this review did not test. [12][1]
Wyoming's voter identification law
HB 75, with Gray as lead sponsor and fifty-six cosponsors across both chambers, requires acceptable identification before voting in person and provides for provisional ballots. It passed the House 51–9 on March 3, 2021 and the Senate 28–2 on April 1; the House concurred 51–8, and Governor Gordon signed it on April 6, 2021 as Chapter 114, effective July 1, 2021. At the committee hearing Gray told members, “The overall rule is increased confidence will lead to increased participation,” while Secretary of State Ed Buchanan and county clerks testified that voter fraud was not a problem in Wyoming; Buchanan supported the bill as a proactive measure. [11][45]
WyoFile reported in June 2022 that the law faced a lawsuit claiming it violated the Wyoming Constitution; the office's May 16, 2023 release reports that District Judge Dawnessa Snyder dismissed a lawsuit challenging the statute. The order was not retrieved for this review. [44][54]
A coal-export lawsuit the governor vetoed
HB 251, Gray's bill, would have authorized the Legislature or its Management Council to sue over the denial of permits for coal-export terminals, with a $250,000 appropriation to retain private counsel. It passed the House 49–10 on February 6, 2019 and the Senate 22–7 on February 25, and the House concurred 50–8. Governor Gordon vetoed it in a message dated March 15, 2019, recorded by the Legislature on March 18, writing that the state was already leading a coalition of states in the Lighthouse Resources litigation over the Millennium Bulk Terminal and had filed an amicus brief on March 11, that he shared the Legislature's zeal but, “Even so, I can see no compelling reason for potentially confusing the courts, complicating matters at hand, disrupting the coalition of states friendly to our perspective, or introducing reasons to delay an expeditious hearing of the case currently before the court.” Gray told the Casper Star-Tribune, as WyoFile later recounted: “The veto is detrimental to efforts to protect the coal industry from a radical Leftist political ideology that seeks to put it out of business by any means necessary.” The bill's passage through both chambers is documented; what became of the export-terminal litigation afterward was not part of this review. [13][57][40]
Proof of citizenship and residency at registration
Gray first tried to add proof of residency to voter registration by rule. His office formally adopted the amendments to Chapter 2 of its election procedures on February 29, 2024 and sent them to the governor; the Legislative Service Office's review of February 28 found that there did not appear to be a provision in the Election Code authorizing the Secretary of State to require proof of residency when registering, the Management Council voted 7–2 to recommend rescission or amendment, and Governor Gordon vetoed the rules on April 12, 2024, writing that unless and until the Legislature granted more explicit authority the rules were a breach of the separation of powers with the legislative branch. Gray answered that the rules should have been signed and that a non-citizen's registration in Campbell County had been cancelled the year before. [56][16][17]
The Legislature then acted. HB 156, sponsored by Representative John Bear, requires documentary proof of United States citizenship and of Wyoming residency to register and a bona fide residence of at least thirty days before an election; it passed the House 51–8 on January 20, 2025 and the Senate 26–4 on February 28 and became law without the governor's signature on March 21, 2025, as Chapter 172, effective July 1. Gray's office called it the first priority of the election-integrity agenda he announced in December 2024 and said, “HB 156 makes Wyoming the first state in the nation to apply proof of citizenship for registering to vote for all elections.” The sponsorship was Bear's; the first-in-the-nation claim is the office's and this review did not measure it. On July 7, 2025 the office announced that Gray had signed a memorandum of agreement with the Department of Homeland Security for access to the SAVE database for voter-list maintenance. [14][21][22]
The Equality State Policy Center sued Gray and every county clerk in federal court in May 2025. Judge Scott Skavdahl dismissed the case on July 22, 2025 because the organization, which is not a voter and cannot register, had not shown standing; the order said the court “has not considered nor makes any comment on the merits of Plaintiff's claims,” and the dismissal was without prejudice. The Republican National Committee joined the case in support of Gray in June and the Justice Department filed a statement of interest in July. Gray's office described the ruling as a decisive victory: “We have successfully defended proof of citizenship for registering to vote and fought and defeated this lawsuit.” [24][23]
Ending unattended ballot drop boxes
On June 5, 2024 Gray wrote to the state's twenty-three county clerks rescinding the 2020 directives of his predecessor, Ed Buchanan, that had allowed ballot drop boxes during the pandemic emergency, and stated: “I do not believe drop boxes represent a safe, secure, or statutory basis for absentee voting.” By October 29, 2024 the office reported that Park and Sheridan counties had discontinued them. HB 131, a statutory ban sponsored by Representative Knapp, passed the House 51–10 on January 30, 2025 and was recommended 3–2 by the Senate Corporations Committee, but the Senate did not take it up in Committee of the Whole on February 28, 2025 and it died there; it was not among the eight acts the office listed as taking effect on July 1, 2025 — proof of citizenship and residency, a ban on foreign funding of ballot measures, voter-list maintenance, a ban on private election funding, a ban on ranked-choice voting, and three Senate acts. A drop-box and ballot-harvesting ban was among the five priorities he announced for the 2026 session, with pen-and-paper ballots as the default, a narrower voter ID list, hand-tabulation verification and a constitutional amendment on dual citizenship. [15][33][34][55][35][36]
Amicus briefs to keep Trump on the ballot
On November 29, 2023 Gray led an amicus brief in the Colorado Supreme Court, joined by the secretaries of state of Missouri and Ohio, arguing that the district court erred in labeling Donald Trump an insurrectionist rather than dismissing the case. On January 18, 2024, through America First Legal acting pro bono, he filed his own brief in the U.S. Supreme Court asking that Colorado's decision be reversed, saying, “I have been repeatedly attacked by the radical left-wing media for my efforts to ensure that Trump will be on the ballot.” The filings are documented in the office's releases; the campaign's statement that he was the only Secretary of State to file such a brief at the Supreme Court is a campaign superlative this review did not measure. [19][18][3]
ESG rules, wind leases and a public feud
The Secretary of State sits with the governor, auditor, treasurer and superintendent on the State Loan and Investment Board, the Board of Land Commissioners and the State Building Commission. In 2023 Gray proposed securities rules requiring investment advisers, broker-dealers and agents to disclose environmental, social and governance strategies and obtain client consent; on February 27, 2024 Governor Gordon line-item vetoed the consent requirement and narrowed the definition, leaving a written-disclosure rule for some ESG-related investments. Gray said he was disappointed in and disagreed with the decision. In January 2025 he and Senator Cynthia Lummis filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to keep enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act blocked. [1][40][20][37]
On the land board he was the only member to vote against the Pronghorn H2 wind lease in Converse County in April 2025; after District Judge F. Scott Peasley reversed the board's approval on December 5, 2025, the board on February 5, 2026 adopted his motion to begin cancelling the lease and voted 3–2, on State Auditor Kristi Racines' motion, to begin cancelling the Sidewinder project in Niobrara County. “I continue to oppose these woke wind leases because they're wrong for Wyoming and are inconsistent with the fiduciary duty of the Board,” he said. WyoFile reported in June 2025 that the disputes between the two officials — the 2019 veto, the two 2024 rule rejections, the wind votes and exchanges on social media — had played out at board meetings in a way former office holders and longtime observers called unusual; both men's statements are in the fuller record. [30][40]
Suits against the office, dismissed
In February 2025 Timothy Newcomb, a registered Democratic voter who had earlier sued to keep Trump off Wyoming's ballot, asked a district court to declare Gray ineligible under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment. The Albany County district court dismissed the complaint; on February 13, 2026 the Wyoming Supreme Court affirmed in Newcomb v. Gray, 2026 WY 20: “Concluding Mr. Newcomb failed to state a claim on which relief can be granted, we affirm.” Gray called the suit an attempt by the left to remove him for supporting Trump. Separately, the office reports that District Judge Nathaniel Hibben granted it summary judgment on November 7, 2025 upholding the state's ban on crossover voting — enacted by House Bill 103 in 2023, which the office had called its first priority for that session — and its sore-loser law, and that District Judge Daniel Forgey dismissed a challenge to the closed primary system on July 22, 2026; those orders were not retrieved for this review. [25][26][27][31][53][32]
The Weston County clerk
On March 10, 2025 Gray released the results of his office's investigation of Weston County Clerk Becky Hadlock's conduct in the 2024 election, recommended to Governor Gordon that she be removed, and referred the matter to the Attorney General and the county attorney, citing a false post-election audit report filed with his office; “Our referral of this matter and recommendation to the Governor are not made lightly,” he said. The clerk resigned in April 2026, and Gray said he was relieved, citing months of investigation, multiple referrals and her failure to comply with a legislative subpoena. The clerk's own response and the governor's handling of the requests were not part of this review. [28][29]
Family & community
Neither the official biography nor the campaign biography describes a marriage or children, and none is asserted here. Reporting describes him as a Casper resident and the campaign's mailing address is a Casper post-office box; his statement at a July 2022 forum in Casper, as WyoFile reported it, placed his childhood summers in Wyoming with his father, Jan Charles Gray, whose company employed him after college, whose donations supplied most of the funds reported by his 2022 campaign, and who alone funded a super PAC supporting his 2026 bid. [1][3][38][42][43][39]
His campaign biography says he is guided by his Christian faith; the official biography does not address religion. Wyoming Public Media describes him as a founding member of the Wyoming Freedom Caucus. The sources reviewed here document his public roles and the awards his biographies cite — CPAC awards for his legislative voting record, Wyoming Right to Life's Platinum Award and the Club for Growth's Defender of Economic Freedom Award — but not charitable or community board service, and none is asserted. The awards were not verified with the issuing organizations. [3][1][24][50]
Mission & priorities
“Chuck Gray is a proven America First conservative with a consistent record of defending Wyoming values and standing with President Donald Trump and the MAGA movement.” {3}
The following summarizes the agenda on Gray's campaign website. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [4][3]
01Energy: coal, oil and gas
“Wyoming's energy sector is the backbone of our economy. Chuck led the legal fight against Washington state when they blocked access to markets for coal, saving Wyoming energy jobs.” The planks are to protect energy jobs, to “Stop woke wind projects and the federal boondoggle subsidies that support them” and to stop the ESG agenda. The record behind the coal claim is HB 251 of 2019, which passed both chambers and was vetoed; the record behind the wind plank is his lone dissent on the Pronghorn H2 lease and the cancellation motions of February 2026. [3][13][30]
02Affordability and lower taxes
“Wyoming families deserve relief from the inflation caused by Joe Biden's disastrous four years in the Presidency.” The campaign promises lower taxes for working families and reduced government spending. No specific federal tax or spending measure is named on the site; as a legislator he voted against the 2022 bill that raised the five statewide officials' salaries, including the office he went on to win. [3][42]
03Election integrity
“Every legal vote must count.” The campaign cites the 2021 voter ID law he sponsored, HB 75, and says that as Secretary of State Wyoming became the first state to require proof of citizenship to register, that he led efforts to ban ranked-choice voting and foreign funding of elections, and that he wants transparent election processes. The voter ID law is his; the 2025 registration law was Representative Bear's bill on his agenda, and the ban on ranked-choice voting and the ban on foreign funding of ballot measures took effect on July 1, 2025 with it. [3][11][14][35]
04The border
“A nation without borders is not a nation.” The campaign would secure the border, enforce existing immigration law and end what it calls Biden-era open-border policies, supporting President Trump's approach. The related state record is the citizenship proof required at registration since July 2025 and the office's agreement to use the federal SAVE database. [3][21][22]
05Second Amendment and life
The campaign's constitutional-rights plank is to “Defend the Second Amendment — shall not be infringed,” to support pro-life policies and to stop taxpayer-funded abortion. The legislative record is HB 182 of 2017, the ultrasound-information act he carried into law, and the Wyoming Right to Life award his biographies cite. [3][12][1]
06Standing with President Trump
The site's opening line is “Standing with President Trump to protect our Wyoming Way of Life.” The record includes the 2023 and 2024 amicus briefs to keep Trump on the ballot and the 2025 SAVE agreement with his administration; Trump, who endorsed Gray for Secretary of State in 2022, did not endorse him, Friess or Rasner in the 2026 House primary, WyoFile reported. [3][19][18][22][43][38]
How to assess a proposal. A campaign plan states an intention. Enactment, implementation costs, replacement revenue, and measured results are separate questions. These priorities should be read alongside the legislative and voting history above.
The fuller record
A useful profile includes policy tradeoffs, the limits of a claim, and responses to material criticism. The matters below are drawn from Federal Election Commission records, court opinions, the office's own releases and reporting by established outlets, with Gray's response where it is on record.
The 2022 texts about Tara Nethercott
Days before the August 16, 2022 primary, text messages carrying a paid-for line from the Committee to Elect Chuck Gray told voters that Nethercott was being sued for lying and slander, was under investigation for campaign-finance violations and had voted herself a raise. WyoFile checked each claim and found none accurate: Nethercott said no suit had been filed and the district court showed none, the Secretary of State's office said she was not under investigation and that it had received no complaints about primary campaign-finance reports, and the 2022 salary bill raised the pay of the five statewide offices — none of which she held — with Gray voting no. Gray declined to discuss the texts' accuracy and in a statement accused Nethercott of distributing a “false, defamatory mailer.” [42]
The FEC complaint over a $300,000 loan
On August 2, 2022 former Secretary of State Max Maxfield, who had endorsed Nethercott, complained to the Federal Election Commission that a candidate reporting income of around $10,000 a year had loaned his congressional campaign almost $300,000; Gray said at a Casper debate that the money was an inheritance from his grandfather. In Matter Under Review 8047 the Commission voted 6–0 to find no reason to believe that Gray, his committee or his father had made or accepted contributions in the name of another or excessive contributions, approved the factual and legal analysis recommended in the General Counsel's report of February 21, 2023, and closed the file. [43][42][46]
Family money in his campaigns
Federal filings through June 30, 2026, as reported by WyoFile, show a $1.15 million loan from Gray accounting for 83 percent of the $1.38 million his committee had raised, with $852,000 spent and $526,000 on hand, and a super PAC formed in April and funded solely by his father with $657,000 that had spent $519,000 on his candidacy. The Federal Election Commission's summary for the committee, covering December 29, 2025 to July 29, 2026, records total receipts of $1,621,197.00, of which $1,377,000.00 were loans made by the candidate (84.9 percent, computed from the summary) and $240,791.00 individual contributions, with $1,381,050.61 spent, $240,146.39 on hand and $1,377,000.00 owed by the committee. For the 2022 Secretary of State race, WyoFile reported that most of the almost $528,000 raised by the August filing came from direct donations from his father, and Cowboy State Daily put the father's contribution at $500,000, 95 percent of the funds. At a July 2026 forum Gray said that, like President Trump, he was investing his own and his family's money to take on the insiders and the media. When opponent Reid Rasner posted that Gray's father supported him, Gray called it unhinged nonsense and said that “If Reid keeps acting like a child, Reid's mom, who has been funding his campaign, should cut off his allowance and take away his phone.” [39][52][43][48][38]
The 2020 claims and the “2000 Mules” screenings
Running for Secretary of State in 2022, Gray sponsored free screenings of “2000 Mules,” a film alleging ballot-harvesting fraud in five swing states that makes no claim about Wyoming, and, asked whether the 2020 election was secure in Wyoming, answered that there were tremendous problems; the outgoing Secretary, Ed Buchanan, had defended the state's elections. Roll Call, citing the Casper Star-Tribune, reported that as a legislator he had accused Joe Biden and “the radical Left” of “trying to steal our elections.” In vetoing the residency rules in 2024, Governor Gordon noted that fraudulent registrations are not a significant problem in Wyoming, and WyoFile cited three instances in twenty-three years in the Heritage Foundation's database; Gray pointed to a non-citizen who voted in Campbell County in 2020. [44][49][17][16]
Two campaign claims, and what the record shows
The campaign says that when activist groups and attorney Marc Elias sued, Gray successfully defended Wyoming's laws in court; the federal case was dismissed for the plaintiff's lack of standing, without prejudice, and the court said it made no comment on the merits. The campaign also says he led the effort to pass legislation forcing the Attorney General to defend Wyoming's coal-export rights; the 2019 bill he sponsored authorized the Legislature, not the Attorney General, to sue, and it was vetoed. Both claims rest on real actions; the outcomes are narrower than the wording. [3][24][13][40]
The feud with Governor Gordon
Asked by WyoFile in 2025 whether their disputes hampered the people's business, Gordon wrote that “The Secretary seems overly eager to manufacture issues to garner attention from the media or get views on Facebook; it reveals his inexperience as a statesman,” and Gray wrote that the governor advances liberal policies and that “I'm not afraid to stand up to Gordon's false statements and expose them as being false talking points and excuses of the Left.” The documented disagreements are the 2019 veto, the two 2024 rule rejections, the wind-lease votes and the location of a June 2025 land-board meeting. Readers can weigh the exchanges; the votes and vetoes are the record. [40][13][16][20]
Questions & answers
Who is Chuck Gray?
Chuck Gray's public career runs from three terms in the Wyoming House, where he carried the state's voter ID law, to the Secretary of State's office, which he has used to press for proof of citizenship and residency at registration, to end ballot drop boxes, and to take on the governor from inside the state's five-member boards. The official biography states neither a birth year nor a birthplace. By his own account at a July 2022 candidate forum in Casper, reported by WyoFile, he spent childhood summers in Wyoming with his father and became a permanent resident of the state in 2012; his campaign lists a Casper post-office box as its address. He represented House District 57, in Natrona County, from 2017, after the 2016 election, until he took statewide office in January 2023. [1][43][3][53]
What office is Chuck Gray running for in 2026?
Who is Chuck Gray running against?
On December 29, 2025, after Hageman announced for the Senate earlier that month, he became the first candidate to enter the race for Wyoming's lone House seat. In the August 18, 2026 Republican primary he received 31,224 votes, 24.9 percent of the 125,371 votes recorded for the nine listed candidates, a withdrawn candidate and write-ins, ahead of Steve Friess with 25,059 and Kevin Christensen with 21,633. He faces Democrat Lisa Kinney, a former state senator who lives in Laramie and won her primary with 9,344 votes, in the November 3, 2026 general election. [41][5][38][49][51][10]
What are Chuck Gray's stated priorities?
The following summarizes the agenda on Gray's campaign website. These are proposed priorities, not completed accomplishments. [4][3] The campaign lists: Energy: coal, oil and gas; Affordability and lower taxes; Election integrity; The border; Second Amendment and life; Standing with President Trump.
What does the public record show?
Legislative records, court opinions, official canvasses and the office's own releases establish the following work. Outcomes are described at the level those records support, with shared credit where the measure was another official's initiative and with the office's own accounts labeled as such. In his first session Gray was lead sponsor of HB 182, an act requiring physicians to provide patients with specified information before certain non-emergency abortion procedures. It passed the House 41–17 on February 3, 2017, the Senate 20–10 on February 27, and the House again on concurrence 47–12; the governor signed it as Chapter 187 on March 9, 2017, effective July 1. The official biography calls it the first pro-life bill passed in thirty years, a characterization this review did not test. [12][1]
How was this profile researched?
Reviewed September 17, 2026, with an independent fact-check of every claim against the cited documents the same day. This is a documented overview of publicly available biography, major actions and stated priorities, not an exhaustive account of six legislative sessions or of the office's rulemaking and litigation. Numerical claims retain their original meaning and attribution; percentages computed by this profile from official totals are labeled as computed; the office's own accounts of court rulings are labeled as such where the orders themselves were not retrieved. Federal campaign-finance figures come from the Federal Election Commission's candidate summary through July 29, 2026 and from WyoFile's reporting of the June 30 filings; Ballotpedia and OpenSecrets could not be retrieved by the tools used for this review. The campaign site's page text was read from the script file the site loads, because its page addresses serve an empty shell. Birth date, bar or licence records, personal financial disclosures beyond the employer they name, and the awards cited by the biographies were not verified against the issuing organizations. The source list provides direct links so readers can check the underlying material. Filings and campaign pages may change after this review.
Sources & methodology
Government records anchor the profile: the Wyoming Legislature's bill records, the Secretary of State's official election summaries and releases, a Wyoming Supreme Court opinion and the Federal Election Commission's file; official and campaign biographies establish attributed background; reporting by established Wyoming outlets supplies responses and scrutiny; campaign materials are used for the candidate's own priorities and claims.
- 01Meet the Secretary — Chuck Gray (official biography)Wyoming Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
Official biography: elected the 24th Secretary of State in 2022; duties and board seats; three House terms from District 57 in Natrona County; lead sponsor of the ultrasound bill and the 2021 voter ID law; committees; CPAC and Wyoming Right to Life awards; Wharton B.S. in economics, 2012.Government record - 02Wyoming Secretary of State (office home page)Wyoming Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
The office's site: the official portrait, links to its social-media accounts and a footer asserting copyright without stating a licence for images.Government record - 03Chuck Gray for Congress — About, Issues, News and Contact pages (site text, read from the application bundle the site loads)Citizens for Chuck Gray (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign site is a single-page application whose page addresses (chuckforwyoming.com/about, /issues, /news, /contact) serve an empty shell; the text of every page is delivered by this script file, which is the document the quotations in this profile were checked against. The bundle's file name may change when the site is rebuilt; the same text is what a visitor reads on those pages. Self-descriptions and proposals, not record.Campaign or advocacy material - 04Chuck Gray for Congress (home page)Citizens for Chuck Gray (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The campaign website; its page shell names the social-media accounts linked in this profile.Campaign or advocacy material - 05Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming Primary Election, August 18, 2026Wyoming Secretary of State · August 2026
U.S. Representative, Republican: Gray 31,224; Friess 25,059; Christensen 21,633; Balow 12,591; Rasner 10,808; Giralt 10,131; Biteman 6,257; Goodenough 3,343; Dodson 1,777; Chapman (withdrawn) 2,162; write-ins 386. Democratic: Kinney 9,344; Del Real 2,660; write-ins 206. Percentages in this profile were computed from these totals with write-ins and the withdrawn candidate included.Government record - 06Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming Primary Election, August 16, 2022Wyoming Secretary of State · August 2022
Secretary of State, Republican: Gray 75,972; Nethercott 63,069; Armstrong 14,304; Dockstader (withdrawn) 3,698; write-ins 410. Democratic: write-ins only.Government record - 07Statewide Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming General Election, November 8, 2022Wyoming Secretary of State · November 2022
Secretary of State: Gray (R) 147,402; write-ins 13,573; no other candidate on the ballot.Government record - 08Statewide House Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming Primary Election, August 16, 2016Wyoming Secretary of State · August 2016
House District 57, Republican: Gray 738; Pacheco 520; write-ins 3. Democratic: Cotherman 227; Ifland (withdrawn) 62.Government record - 09Statewide House Candidates Official Summary — Wyoming General Election, November 8, 2016Wyoming Secretary of State · November 2016
House District 57: Gray (R) 2,261; Cotherman (D) 1,252; write-ins 20.Government record - 10Election Results (index of official results, 1996–2026)Wyoming Secretary of State · Accessed September 17, 2026
The office's results index; its structured data records the 2026 primary election on August 18, 2026 and the general election on November 3, 2026.Government record - 11HB0075 (2021) — Voter identification: bill record, sponsors, votes and actionsWyoming Legislature (Legislative Service Office) · 2021; accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Representative Gray with 41 House and 15 Senate cosponsors; House 51–9 (March 3, 2021), Senate 28–2 (April 1), concurrence 51–8; signed April 6, 2021 as Chapter 114, effective July 1, 2021. Read through the Legislature's bill-information service, which the linked page displays.Government record - 12HB0182 (2017) — Abortion–ultrasound information: bill record, sponsors, votes and actionsWyoming Legislature (Legislative Service Office) · 2017; accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Representative Gray; House 41–17 (February 3, 2017), Senate 20–10 (February 27), concurrence 47–12; signed March 9, 2017 as Chapter 187, effective July 1, 2017. Read through the Legislature's bill-information service.Government record - 13HB0251 (2019) — Coal export terminal litigation: bill record, sponsors, votes and actionsWyoming Legislature (Legislative Service Office) · 2019; accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Representative Gray; $250,000 appropriation; House 49–10 (February 6, 2019), Senate 22–7 (February 25), concurrence 50–8; Governor vetoed House Enrolled Act 117 on March 18, 2019. Read through the Legislature's bill-information service.Government record - 14HB0156 (2025) — Proof of voter residency–registration qualifications: bill record, sponsors, votes and actionsWyoming Legislature (Legislative Service Office) · 2025; accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Representative Bear; House 51–8 (January 20, 2025), Senate 26–4 (February 28), concurrence 54–3; became law without signature March 21, 2025 as Chapter 172, effective July 1, 2025. Read through the Legislature's bill-information service.Government record - 15Secretary of State Explicitly Rescinds Predecessor's Directives, Urges Clerks not to use Drop Boxes in 2024 ElectionWyoming Secretary of State · June 5, 2024
The letter to the 23 county clerks, the rescission of the 2020 directives and Gray's statement on drop boxes.Government record - 16Secretary Gray Expresses Disagreement with Governor's Veto of Rules to Require Proof of Wyoming Residency to VoteWyoming Secretary of State · April 12, 2024
The office's account of the veto of its Chapter 2 amendments and Gray's response, including the Campbell County registration.Government record - 17Gov. Gordon rejects Secretary of State Gray's voter residency rulesWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · April 12, 2024
Gordon's letter on separation of powers, the Legislative Service Office review of February 28, the Management Council's 7–2 vote, the fraud figures cited, and Gray's statements.Independent reporting - 18Secretary Gray Submits Amicus Curiae Brief before United States Supreme Court to Reverse Colorado Decision Barring Donald Trump from the BallotWyoming Secretary of State · January 19, 2024
The January 18, 2024 brief filed through America First Legal, pro bono, and Gray's statement.Government record - 19Secretary Gray Leads Amicus Curiae before Colorado Supreme Court to Protect the Right of Voters to Decide who Represents ThemWyoming Secretary of State · November 29, 2023
The brief joined by the Missouri and Ohio secretaries of state and its argument.Government record - 20Secretary Gray Expresses Disappointment in Governor's Line-Item Veto of Rules to Protect Investors from ESG InvestmentsWyoming Secretary of State · February 27, 2024
The line-item veto of the securities-rule amendments, what survived, and Gray's response.Government record - 21Secretary Gray Celebrates Passage of First Priority of Election Integrity Reform Agenda with Bill Requiring Proof of U.S. Citizenship, Residency to Vote Becoming LawWyoming Secretary of State · March 21, 2025
HB 156 becoming law without signature, the vote counts as the office reported them, the credit to Representative Bear and the first-in-the-nation claim.Government record - 22Secretary Gray Signs Agreement with Trump Administration to Enhance Voter List MaintenanceWyoming Secretary of State · July 7, 2025
The memorandum of agreement with the Department of Homeland Security for the SAVE program.Government record - 23Federal Judge Dismisses Lawsuit, Hands Decisive Victory to Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray on Election IntegrityWyoming Secretary of State · July 22, 2025
The office's account of the dismissal and Gray's statements, including the thanks to the Justice Department, the RNC and outside counsel.Government record - 24Judge tosses federal lawsuit against Wyoming's new voter residency requirementWyoming Public Media (Chris Clements) · July 22, 2025
Judge Skavdahl's standing ruling, his statement that the court made no comment on the merits, the dismissal without prejudice, the RNC and Justice Department filings and the plaintiff's response.Independent reporting - 25Secretary Gray Issues Statement on Lawsuit Seeking to Remove him from Office under Fourteenth AmendmentWyoming Secretary of State · May 15, 2025
The office's statement on Newcomb v. Gray and its plan to move to dismiss.Government record - 26Timothy K. Newcomb v. Chuck Gray, Wyoming Secretary of State, 2026 WY 20 (S-25-0227)Wyoming Supreme Court (via CourtListener) · February 13, 2026
The opinion affirming the Albany County district court's dismissal for failure to state a claim under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment; the facts of the complaint.Government record - 27Secretary Gray Applauds Wyoming Supreme Court's Decision Affirming Dismissal of Lawsuit to Remove Secretary Gray from OfficeWyoming Secretary of State · February 13, 2026
Gray's response to the affirmance.Government record - 28Secretary Gray Releases Results of Investigation Regarding Conduct of Weston County ClerkWyoming Secretary of State · March 10, 2025
The recommendation to the governor that the clerk be removed, the referrals to the Attorney General and county attorney, and the false post-election audit report cited.Government record - 29Secretary Gray Statement on Resignation of Weston County ClerkWyoming Secretary of State · April 21, 2026
The clerk's resignation and Gray's statement on the investigation, referrals and legislative subpoena.Government record - 30Secretary Gray Makes Successful Motion to Cancel Wind Lease ProjectWyoming Secretary of State · February 5, 2026
The Board of Land Commissioners' actions on the Pronghorn H2 and Sidewinder leases, his April 2025 lone dissent, Judge Peasley's December 5, 2025 decision and Gray's statement.Government record - 31Wyoming District Court Upholds Election Integrity Laws Banning Crossover Voting, Wyoming's “Sore Loser” LawWyoming Secretary of State · November 7, 2025
The office's account of Judge Hibben's summary judgment.Government record - 32Secretary Gray Applauds Wyoming District Court's Dismissal of Challenge to Wyoming's Primary SystemWyoming Secretary of State · July 23, 2026
The office's account of Judge Forgey's dismissal of the Skovgard suit.Government record - 33Secretary Gray Thanks Counties for Ending Ballot Drop Boxes in 2024 Election CycleWyoming Secretary of State · October 29, 2024
Park and Sheridan counties' discontinuation of drop boxes and Gray's stated intent to seek a statutory ban.Government record - 34Secretary Gray Applauds House Passage of Bill to Ban Ballot Drop BoxesWyoming Secretary of State · January 30, 2025
HB 131 passing the House 51–10.Government record - 35Secretary Gray Welcomes Addition of Election Integrity Measures to Wyoming Election CodeWyoming Secretary of State · July 1, 2025
The eight enrolled acts the office listed as taking effect July 1, 2025; a drop-box ban is not among them.Government record - 36Secretary Gray Announces Top Five Election Integrity Priorities Ahead of 2026 Legislative SessionWyoming Secretary of State · January 22, 2026
The five 2026 priorities: pen-and-paper ballots, a drop-box and ballot-harvesting ban, a narrower voter ID list, hand-tabulation verification and a constitutional amendment on dual citizenship.Government record - 37Secretary Gray, Senator Lummis Submit Amicus Curiae Brief before United States Supreme Court in Opposition to the CTAWyoming Secretary of State · January 13, 2025 (the release dateline misprints the year)
The January 10 brief with Senator Lummis asking the Supreme Court to keep enforcement of the Corporate Transparency Act blocked.Government record - 38Gray edges out Friess and Christensen in tight, crowded race for US HouseWyoFile (Mike Koshmrl) · August 18, 2026
Primary-night reporting: the field, Gray's statement, his forum remarks on investing personal and family money, the father-funded PAC, that Trump endorsed no one, and Lisa Kinney as the Democratic nominee.Independent reporting - 39GOP candidates in Wyoming's US House race self-fund campaigns to the tune of nearly $6 millionWyoFile (Mike Koshmrl) · July 2026
FEC filings through June 30, 2026: Gray's $1.15 million loan, $1.38 million raised, $852,000 spent, $526,000 on hand; the Protecting Wyoming Values PAC funded solely by Jan Gray.Independent reporting - 40Gordon, Gray feud escalates as Wyoming's top officials grapple with mining, wind projectsWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · June 2025
The 2019 veto letter and Gray's reaction, the two 2024 rule rejections, the wind-lease votes, the June 5 land-board exchange and both officials' written statements.Independent reporting - 41Chuck Gray announces bid for U.S. HouseWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · December 29, 2025
The announcement, his background as WyoFile summarized it, and that he was the first candidate in the race.Independent reporting - 42‘Blatantly untrue’ texts target Nethercott ahead of primaryWyoFile (Mike Koshmrl) · August 15, 2022
The three claims in the texts paid for by the Committee to Elect Chuck Gray, WyoFile's checks of each, the 2022 salary bill and Gray's no vote, and Gray's statement.Independent reporting - 43Secretary of State hopefuls vary on compliance with desired officeWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · August 11, 2022
Gray's disclosure forms and Mount Rushmore Broadcasting, his forum statements on residency and childhood summers, the Maxfield complaint and the inheritance explanation, and Trump's endorsement.Independent reporting - 44Election integrity front and center in secretary of state raceWyoFile (Maggie Mullen) · June 2022
The 2022 field, Gray's positions on drop boxes and hand-count audits, the “2000 Mules” screenings and his answer on the 2020 election.Independent reporting - 45Voter ID bill advances in LegislatureWyoFile (Dustin Bleizeffer) · February 25, 2021
The committee hearing on HB 75: Gray's statement, the Secretary of State's and clerks' testimony on fraud, and the objections raised.Independent reporting - 46MUR 8047 — Gray, Charles; Citizens for Chuck Gray; Gray, Jan Charles (complainant Max Maxfield)Federal Election Commission · Closed 2023; accessed September 17, 2026
The disposition: a 6–0 vote finding no reason to believe any violation, approval of the General Counsel's analysis of February 21, 2023 and closure of the file; the document list.Government record - 47U.S. House Candidate Chuck Gray Suspends Congressional CampaignCowboy State Daily (Jimmy Orr) · September 14, 2021
The suspension after Trump's endorsement of Hageman and Gray's statement.Independent reporting - 48Gray Calls Rasner ‘A Child’ For Bringing His Dad Into Fiery GOP Primary RaceCowboy State Daily (Clair McFarland) · July 14, 2026
The exchange with Reid Rasner, Gray's statement and the paper's figures on his father's support in 2022 and 2026.Independent reporting - 49Wyoming Republican Chuck Gray poised to succeed Hageman in HouseRoll Call (Daniela Altimari and Andrew Menezes) · August 19, 2026
National reporting on the result, the field and the general-election opponent.Independent reporting - 50What to make of the Wyoming GOP's first primary endorsementsWyoming Public Media (Nicky Ouellet) · July 30, 2026
The state party's first primary endorsements under its April bylaws, the state-law restriction on party spending, Christensen's criticism and the father-funded PAC's texts advertising the endorsement.Independent reporting - 51Lisa Kinney — Running For You! (campaign website)Lisa Kinney for Congress (campaign) · Accessed September 17, 2026
The Democratic nominee's site and listed priorities.Campaign or advocacy material - 52GRAY, CHUCK — Candidate overview, H6WY00217 (financial summary, coverage December 29, 2025 to July 29, 2026)Federal Election Commission · Accessed September 17, 2026
Principal campaign committee Citizens for Chuck Gray (C00932244); total receipts $1,621,197.00; individual contributions $240,791.00; loans made by the candidate $1,377,000.00; disbursements $1,381,050.61; ending cash on hand $240,146.39; debts owed by the committee $1,377,000.00; open-seat candidacy, Republican.Government record - 53Marking his first 100 Days in Office, Secretary Gray Reflects on Accomplishments Thus FarWyoming Secretary of State · April 25, 2023
Dates the administration's work from January 3, 2023, refers to his oath of office, and records the 2023 crossover-voting ban (House Bill 103) as the office's first priority that session.Government record - 54Secretary Gray Celebrates and Applauds Dismissal of Lawsuit Challenging Voter IDWyoming Secretary of State · May 16, 2023
The office's account of District Judge Dawnessa Snyder's dismissal of a lawsuit challenging the voter ID statute; the order itself was not retrieved.Government record - 55HB0131 (2025) — Ballot drop boxes–prohibition: bill record, sponsor, votes and actionsWyoming Legislature (Legislative Service Office) · 2025; accessed September 17, 2026
Sponsor Representative Knapp; House 51–10 (January 30, 2025); Senate Corporations Committee recommended amend and do pass 3–2 (February 19); placed on General File; not considered in Committee of the Whole on February 28, 2025; no further action. Read through the Legislature's bill-information service.Government record - 56Secretary of State Adopts Proposed Rules Requiring Proof of Wyoming Residency to Register to VoteWyoming Secretary of State · February 29, 2024
The formal adoption of the Chapter 2 amendments and their transmittal to the governor for review.Government record - 57Veto of HB0251/HEA No. 0117, Coal export terminal litigation — letter from Governor Mark Gordon to Secretary of State Edward BuchananWyoming Legislature (Governor's veto message) · March 15, 2019
The governor's four-page veto message, a scanned document read by optical character recognition for this review: the state's existing coalition and March 11, 2019 amicus brief in the Lighthouse Resources case and the reasons for the veto.Government record
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Voting in Wyoming: official dates, deadlines and rules
The general election is Tuesday, November 3, 2026. The dates and rules below were read from the Wyoming Secretary of State; the authority's own page, linked beside each one, is the final word.
Dates and deadlines
- Voter registration deadline (by mail or at the county clerk's office)October 19, 2026 — voter registration closes for the general election. After that date a voter may still register in person while casting an absentee ballot, October 20 – November 2, 2026, or register at the polling place on Election Day, November 3, 2026. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Registering at the polls on Election Day (and while voting absentee in person)Yes. On Election Day, November 3, 2026, voters may register and vote at their polling places. After registration closes, voters may still register in person and cast an absentee ballot from October 20 to November 2, 2026. Registering requires acceptable identification, proof of U.S. citizenship and proof of Wyoming residence. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Absentee ballots sent to voters who requested oneOctober 6, 2026 (28 days before the election) — absentee ballots for the general election are sent to voters who requested one; requests received after that date are sent as soon as possible. Ballots for military and overseas (UOCAVA) voters go out earlier: the Election Calendar lists September 18, 2026, and the absentee voting page describes that lead time as 45 days before the election. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Election_Calendar.pdf
- Absentee voting begins (by mail and in person)October 6, 2026 — absentee voting for the general election begins, 28 days before the election, by mail and in person. Wyoming's official pages describe voting before Election Day as absentee voting; a voter obtains the absentee ballot from the county clerk's office. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Election_Calendar.pdf
- Absentee voting ends (last day to vote absentee in person)November 2, 2026 — last day of the absentee voting period for the general election. Absentee ballots are not issued on Election Day. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Last day to request an absentee ballotNovember 2, 2026 — the Secretary of State prints no separate cut-off date: its key election dates sheet says “Absentee ballots may be requested at any time in 2026 prior to the day of an election”, which makes the day before Election Day the last day to ask. A ballot requested that late must still reach the county clerk's office by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, and the office's absentee voting page notes that mail delivery within the county may take up to seven (7) days, and longer if the mailing address is outside the county. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Key_Election_Dates.pdf
- Deadline to return an absentee ballot (received by the county clerk)November 3, 2026, 7:00 p.m. — all absentee ballots must be received in the county clerk's office no later than 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, whether mailed or delivered in person. A ballot that arrives after the deadline is not counted. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/State/AbsenteeVoting.aspx
- Poll hoursPolls are open from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. on Election Day, November 3, 2026, or until the last person in line at 7 p.m. has voted. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/Docs/2026/2026_Election_Calendar.pdf
Rules to know
- What to bringWyoming voters are required to show an acceptable form of identification when voting in person. The Secretary of State lists: WY driver's license or ID card; tribal ID card; valid U.S. passport; U.S. military card; driver's license or ID card from another state; University of Wyoming student ID; Wyoming community college student ID; Wyoming public school student ID; valid Medicare insurance card; valid Medicaid insurance card; valid Wyoming concealed firearm permit. The office notes that Medicare and Medicaid cards will no longer be accepted after December 31, 2029. Voters who mail in their absentee ballot are not required to provide any additional form of identification. A voter who arrives without ID may leave to get it and return, or vote a provisional ballot; that ballot counts only if the voter brings acceptable identification to the county clerk's office by the end of the next business day. A free Wyoming identification card is available from local Driver Services offices. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/VoterID
- Registering to vote, including on Election DayThe Secretary of State lists three ways to register, all through the county clerk: in person, by mail, or at the polls on Election Day; no online registration option appears on its pages. A mailed application must be notarized (military and overseas citizens are exempt). Every applicant must provide acceptable identification, proof of U.S. citizenship and proof of Wyoming residence, and must have been a bona fide Wyoming resident for not less than 30 days before the election. A valid Wyoming driver's license or ID card satisfies the citizenship requirement if it carries no indication that the holder is not a U.S. citizen. The FAQ gives the registration deadline as “14 days before an election”, and the office's 2026 key dates print October 19, 2026 as the day registration closes for the general election; a voter may still register and vote at the same time during the absentee voting period or on Election Day. The 2026 Voter's Guide says a voter who did not vote in the 2024 General Election should verify the registration with the county clerk, and a voter who moved within the county or changed names since the 2024 election must notify the county clerk. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/faqs.aspx?root=ELEC
- Voting absentee by mailAny registered Wyoming voter may request an absentee ballot, and the Secretary of State's FAQ says no reason is needed. Requests go to the county clerk — by phone, by mail, by email with the subject line “Absentee Ballot Request”, or in person — only within the calendar year of the election and not on Election Day. The request gives the voter's full name, date of birth, Wyoming residence address, mailing address, the election(s) requested and a statement of eligibility. Ballots are mailed beginning 28 days before the election (45 days for military and overseas voters); later requests are sent as soon as possible. Return the completed ballot in the provided, signed envelope by mail or in person to the county clerk's office, where it must be received no later than 7:00 p.m. on Election Day. Once the clerk's office has received a ballot, it is considered voted and cannot be changed. Read from: sos.wyo.gov/Elections/State/AbsenteeVoting.aspx
- Voting in person before Election DayWyoming's official pages describe voting before Election Day as absentee voting. The Secretary of State's voter site refers to a “Mail-in and in-person absentee voting period” of 28 days before the general election, which the office's key dates list as October 6 through November 2, 2026. A voter may request an absentee ballot in person at the county clerk's office and may obtain it on any day of that period, but not on Election Day; identification is required when voting in person. From October 20 to November 2, 2026, a person who is not yet registered may register in person and cast an absentee ballot. The Secretary of State's pages do not list locations, days or hours for in-person absentee voting; they direct voters to their county clerk and publish a contact list for all 23 county clerks. Read from: letsvotewyo.org
- Track your absentee ballotThe Secretary of State's Wyoming Voter Information Tool — where a voter enters a residential address to find out where to vote, view statewide ballot information and contact the county clerk — links to “Track my Absentee or Affidavit ballot”. That page, titled “Voter Registration Check” and headed “ARE YOU REGISTERED TO VOTE?”, asks for the voter's county, last name, first name, date of birth and either the last four digits of the Social Security number or the driver's license number, which must match the voter's registration, and shows the status of the absentee or affidavit ballot. The absentee voting page also says voters may contact their county clerk about the status of a ballot. Read from: myelectionday.sos.wyo.gov/WYVOTES/Pages/VoterRegistrationCheck.aspx
Read from: 2026 Key Election Dates · 2025-2026 Election Calendar · Welcome to the Election Center · 2026 Election · Voting · Registering to Vote in Wyoming — Rules and dates as of Sep 17, 2026
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