Chris Deluzio

Deluzio ran for the United States House of Representatives in Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district to succeed Conor Lamb in the 2022 elections. He won the general election with 53.4% of the vote, defeating Republican Jeremy Shaffer.

He is a strong supporter of labor unions, and during his 2022 campaign for Congress, Austin Ahlman described him in The American Prospect as having an 'ardent belief' in 'the power of labor politics'.

Deluzio was a Bernie Sanders delegate to the 2020 Democratic National Convention. He has spoken in favour of Medicare for All.

Deluzio is from Thornburg, Pennsylvania, the son of Vincent and Rita Deluzio. His father owns a healthcare management consulting firm. In 2015, he married Alexandra Zoë Bunnell, whom he met while attending law school at Georgetown.

Deluzio was born in Pittsburgh and raised in Thornburg, Pennsylvania. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy in 2006. He later graduated magna cum laude and received his juris doctor degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2013.

After graduating from the Naval Academy, Deluzio served a deployment to Iraq and as a naval officer from 2006 to 2012. He later worked as a litigation associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in New York City before being named a legal and policy scholar of the University of Pittsburgh Institute for Cyber Law, Policy, and Security.

Christopher Raphael Deluzio (born July 13, 1984) is an American attorney, politician and former U.S. Navy officer who is currently the U.S. representative for Pennsylvania's 17th congressional district. He is a member of the Democratic Party.