Steven Ernst Stivers (/ˈstaɪvərz/ STY-vərz; born March 24, 1965) is an American businessman and politician who was the U.S. representative for Ohio's 15th congressional district from 2011 until 2021.

[3] Stivers attended the Ohio State University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and international relations in 1989 and an MBA in 1996.

[6] Stivers has served in the Ohio Army National Guard since 1985 and holds the rank of Major General in the Logistics branch.

[9] In November 2007, Stivers announced he would run for election to Congress in Ohio's 15th District, a seat held by retiring Republican member Deborah Pryce.

He won the Republican nomination and ran against Democratic Franklin County Commissioner Mary Jo Kilroy, who had nearly unseated Pryce in 2006, Libertarian Mark Noble and Independent Don Elijah Eckhart.

During his first term, he represented a fairly compact district covering all of Union and Madison counties, as well as most of downtown and western Columbus.

[21] Stivers voted in favor of legislation to dismantle financial regulations enacted by the Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act.

[21] He voted to repeal a rule that would have barred some financial services companies from including mandatory arbitration clauses in contracts.

[21] Stivers voted against a measure to block President Trump from withdrawing the United States from the Paris Agreement on climate change.

[21] Stivers opposed President Donald Trump's issuance of Executive Order 13769, which imposed a temporary ban on entry to the U.S. to citizens of seven Muslim-majority countries, in 2017.

[21] Stivers voted to rescind a Federal Communications Commission regulation that barred Internet service providers from sharing data on the Web activities of their customers.

[21] Strivers voted against a measure that would have curtailed the power of officials to "search and read private messages collected incidentally" under Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act authorities.

[24] Stivers beat Representative Roger Williams to be elected to chair the National Republican Congressional Committee in November 2016.

[25] In June 2018, Stivers did not denounce the use of hacked materials in election campaigns, saying that as chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee he wouldn't "run down one of my candidates for using something that's in the public domain.

"[27] In the aftermath of the 2018 election, in which Republicans lost their House majority, Stivers announced that he would not run for re-election as NRCC chair.

[31] In July 2018, Stivers and the NRCC withdrew support from New Jersey candidate Seth Grossman following reports he shared a post from a white supremacist.