He graduated from Poca High School in 2014 and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in history from the University of Charleston in 2017.
[7] Higginbotham was also the only Republican in the House to vote against a bill that forces transgender students to play on sports teams according to the sex they are assigned at birth, as opposed to their gender identity.
[8] Later that year, Higginbotham attended the Spirit of Lincoln Gala honoring former First Lady Melania Trump, hosted by the Log Cabin Republicans.
[11][12] In September 2021, Higginbotham announced he will run for the West Virginia Senate in the 2022 elections for a seat in the Kanawha Valley.
[15] In 2014, at the age of 18, Higginbotham released Ecclesiastes, a fictionalized version of the Bible book of the same name, on eLectio Publishing.