Steven Alexzander Horsford (born April 29, 1973) is an American politician and businessman serving as the U.S. representative for Nevada's 4th congressional district since 2019, previously holding the position from 2013 to 2015.

A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the Nevada Senate, representing the 4th district, in Clark County, from 2005 to 2013.

[2] After that election, Horsford joined an international Las Vegas-based business and marketing consulting firm, R&R Partners,[3] for which he had worked before his political career.

[4] In January 2018, he announced that he would run for the open seat vacated by Democrat Ruben Kihuen in the midterm elections.

While attending Ed W. Clark High School in Las Vegas,[6] Horsford worked at Pizza Hut and at a veterinarian's office, where he cleaned kennels after hours.

[8] After his father's death, Horsford temporarily returned home from the University of Nevada, Reno, where he had been studying political science and communications.

[13][14] He became the fourth African American to serve as a state senator since the Nevada legislature first convened in 1864.

[21][22] In the summer of 2010, Horsford sent a fundraising letter from his PAC soliciting donations in exchange for private meals or receptions to meet with various Democratic legislative leaders and Senate committee chairs.

[23] In 2011, web poker company PokerStars treated Horsford to a trip to the Bahamas before the introduction of legislation that would benefit the online gaming industry.

[31] Horsford was narrowly defeated by Republican state Assemblyman Cresent Hardy, who in 2016 also lost reelection after a single term.

[32] Horsford announced in January 2018 that he would run to replace retiring incumbent Ruben Kihuen in Nevada's 4th congressional district.

[38] Horsford voted with President Joe Biden's stated position 100% of the time in the 117th Congress, according to a FiveThirtyEight analysis.

24: Disapproving the action of the District of Columbia Council in approving the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022, which condemns the District of Columbia's plan to allow noncitizens to vote in local elections.

[7] On December 18, 2019, Horsford voted for both articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, including abuse of power and obstruction of Congress.

[7] Horsford supports a gun control package that would include background checks, a ban on assault weapon and bump stocks, banning private sales and closing the gun show loophole, an increase in mental-health funding and programs to address bullying in schools.

"[47] Horsford has described the controversy about the relocation of the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem as "a distraction away from the important international issues we are right now faced with.

[4] Horsford married Sonya Douglass, a professor of educational leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University, in 2000.

[7] In May 2020, Horsford acknowledged an extramarital affair with Gabriela Linder, a former intern of Senator Harry Reid.

Linder, 15 years younger than Horsford, said the relationship lasted from 2009, when she was a 21-year-old college student and he was majority leader in the Nevada state senate, until April 2020.

Linder said that Horsford "offered her financial support, introduced her to political connections and filmed a segment for her young son's YouTube show using his congressional staff.