Denver Riggleman

On September 26, 2019, Campbell County's Board of Supervisor Bob Good—who also works as an athletics official at Liberty University—announced his intention to challenge Riggleman for his House seat in the 2020 Republican primary. In his announcement, Good accused Riggleman of “betraying” the trust of conservative voters in the 5th district along with casting votes that were not in the best interest of his constituency's entire populace. Riggleman has already secured key endorsements on the right, including from Liberty University President Jerry Falwell, Jr.

In the 2018 elections, Riggleman was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives election for Virginia's 5th congressional district . Riggleman defeated Cynthia Dunbar, who had lost the Republican nomination in the 6th district just weeks before, in the final round of voting to get the Republican nomination. The Republican incumbent, Tom Garrett, did not run for re-election.

In the November 2018 general election, Riggleman defeated Democratic nominee Leslie Cockburn, receiving 53% of the vote to Cockburn's 47%.

Riggleman suspended his campaign on March 16, 2017.

In December 2016, Riggleman filed papers to seek the Republican nomination for governor of Virginia in the 2017 gubernatorial election.

In 2014, he and his wife opened Silverback Distillery, a craft distillery in Afton, Virginia, outside Charlottesville. The Shenandoah Valley facility encompasses 50 acres. Riggleman has pushed for deregulation of distilleries in the state and changes to the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority; together with other distillers, the Rigglemans established a "loosely formed distillers guild" and hired a lobbyist to press for changes. Riggleman has "criticized the state's alcohol and tax laws as unfairly harsh toward spirits producers and spoke[n] of a new 'whiskey rebellion.'"

He founded NSA contractor Analytics Warehouse, LLC, in 2007, and was its CEO until 2015.

During the campaign, Cockburn accused Riggleman of being a "devotee of Bigfoot erotica", based on an image he shared from his Instagram to promote a book titled The Mating Habits of Bigfoot and Why Women Want Him. In an interview with CRTV Riggleman stated that the image was an obvious joke, but that he had an interest in Bigfoot, and co-authored the actual self-published book Bigfoot Exterminators, Inc.: The Partially Cautionary, Mostly True Tale of Monster Hunt 2006, with ESPN writer Don Barone. In a phone interview with The Washington Post, he clarified that it was an "anthropological book sort of based on parody and satire" and said "I thought it was funny. There is no way that anybody's dumb enough to think this is real."

Riggleman is married to Christine Blair Riggleman (m. 1989), and they reside in Nellysford. The Rigglemans have three daughters together: Lillian, Abigail, and Lauren. In July 2019, Riggleman was the officiant at a same-sex marriage for two of his friends and campaign volunteers.

Riggleman was born and raised in Manassas, Virginia. He graduated from Stonewall Jackson High School in 1988. Riggleman earned an Associate of Arts (AA) from Rowan College at Burlington County, formerly Burlington County College, in 1996. He garnered an Associate of Applied Science (AAS) in Avionics Systems from the Community College of the Air Force at Air University in 1996. In 1998, he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia. Riggleman received a Graduate Certificate (GradCert) in Project Management from Villanova University in 2007.

Denver Lee Riggleman III (born March 17, 1970) is an American businessman and politician from the Commonwealth of Virginia, currently serving in the United States House of Representatives for Virginia's 5th congressional district. A former Air Force officer and National Security Agency contractor, Riggleman opened a craft distillery in Virginia in 2014. As a Republican, he ran for his party's nomination in the 2017 gubernatorial election, but withdrew from the race. Riggleman was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 2018.