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Husband of Tulsi Gabbard

Tulsi Gabbard’s Husband: Who Abraham Williams Is

Abraham Williams is the American freelance cinematographer who married Tulsi Gabbard in 2015; the page distinguishes him from her former husband, Eduardo Tamayo.

The short answer

Abraham Williams is Tulsi Gabbard’s husband. The American freelance cinematographer married Gabbard in 2015 in a traditional Vedic Hindu wedding. Gabbard had previously been married to Eduardo Tamayo from 2002 to 2006, before their divorce.

Tulsi Gabbard’s public career

Tulsi Gabbard is an American politician and U.S. Army officer who became known through service as a member of the Hawaii House of Representatives and later as the United States representative for Hawaii’s 2nd congressional district. She served in the state house from 2002 to 2004 and in Congress from 2013 to 2021. From 2025 to 2026, she served as the eighth Director of National Intelligence.

Gabbard joined the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2003 and was deployed to Iraq from 2004 to 2005 with a medical unit. She received the Combat Medical Badge, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Achievement Medal. She completed the officer training programme at the Alabama Military Academy in 2007 and served in Kuwait in 2008 as an Army Military Police officer. She became a major in the Hawaii Army National Guard in 2015, while also serving in Congress.

Who Abraham Williams is

Abraham Williams is an American freelance cinematographer. He is Tulsi Gabbard’s husband, and their marriage is recorded from 2015 to the present. He is the person named in connection with Gabbard’s married life from that point, while Eduardo Tamayo belongs to the earlier part of her marriage history. Williams’s identity is therefore tied to both his profession and his marriage to Gabbard.

His professional description is stated in general terms: he is a freelance cinematographer. Gabbard’s public career is presented separately and consists of political and military roles. Williams does not appear within that career history as a political officeholder or army officer. The connection between them is through marriage, and their marriage is the one beginning in 2015.

How Gabbard and Williams married

In 2015, Gabbard and Williams married in a traditional Vedic Hindu wedding. People reported at the time that Williams was a freelance cinematographer and editor, a Hindu of European and Samoan ancestry, and the son of Gabbard’s Honolulu office manager. The marriage made him her husband, and their marriage is recorded as continuing to the present.

In 2024, while appearing on Meghan McCain’s podcast, Gabbard said that she and Williams had tried to start a family and had undergone several in-vitro fertilisation procedures without success. She presented this as their personal account of their efforts to have children. The statement added detail to their life together but did not expand Williams’s professional biography.

Gabbard’s wider family history

Eduardo Tamayo was Gabbard’s husband from 2002 to 2006, and that marriage ended in divorce. Mike Gabbard is her father, and Carol Porter Gabbard is her mother. Williams, by contrast, is the husband associated with her marriage from 2015 to the present. Her family history includes both an earlier husband and her parents.

The family history separates these relationships by name and period. Tamayo’s marriage came first and ended in 2006, while Williams’s marriage began in 2015 and continues to the present. Gabbard’s parents are Mike Gabbard and Carol Porter Gabbard, with Mike identified as her father and Carol as her mother. The two marriages and the parent relationship are distinct.

Williams’s work away from Gabbard

Williams’s occupation is freelance cinematography. He is American, and his name is linked to a specific craft rather than to a political office or military rank. His public family identity comes through his marriage to Tulsi Gabbard, which began in 2015 and continues to the present. That is the work for which he is identified.

His professional role is concise: he is a freelance cinematographer. Gabbard’s political, military and intelligence work forms a separate public career with its own positions and honours. Williams’s professional identity is linked to his own occupation, while his family identity is linked to Gabbard. Together, these details define his public connection with her.

What remains unpublished

His date of birth has not been published. No account of how he and Gabbard met has appeared in print. His childhood, education and early career history have not been documented publicly. Detailed information about his cinematography, including particular productions or a career chronology, has not been published in public profiles.

His family background is known through the description of him as a Hindu of European and Samoan ancestry and as the son of Gabbard’s Honolulu office manager. Beyond that description, his parents and siblings have not been publicly identified. No separate account of his professional life before his marriage has been published. Details of his work with particular productions or collaborators have also remained unpublished.

Questions people ask

Who is Tulsi Gabbard’s husband?

Abraham Williams is Tulsi Gabbard’s husband. He is an American freelance cinematographer, and People described him at the time of their wedding as a freelance cinematographer and editor. They married in 2015 in a traditional Vedic Hindu wedding, and the marriage is recorded as continuing to the present.

When did Tulsi Gabbard marry Abraham Williams?

Tulsi Gabbard and Abraham Williams married in 2015. People reported that their ceremony was a traditional Vedic Hindu wedding. Williams was described at the time as a freelance cinematographer and editor, and as the son of Gabbard’s Honolulu office manager. Their marriage is recorded from 2015 to the present.

Is Abraham Williams Tulsi Gabbard’s husband?

Yes. Abraham Williams is Tulsi Gabbard’s husband, and their marriage is recorded from 2015 to the present. He is an American freelance cinematographer. Gabbard had been married previously to Eduardo Tamayo, but Williams is the person associated with her later marriage beginning in 2015.

Who was Tulsi Gabbard married to before Abraham Williams?

Tulsi Gabbard was married to Eduardo Tamayo from 2002 to 2006. That marriage ended in divorce. She later married Abraham Williams in 2015, and their marriage is recorded as continuing to the present. Their marriages belong to distinct periods of her relationship history.

What does Abraham Williams do for a living?

Abraham Williams is an American freelance cinematographer. People also described him as an editor when they reported on Tulsi Gabbard’s wedding. His professional identity is separate from Gabbard’s public work in politics, the Army and national intelligence. Detailed information about particular productions or a career chronology has not been published.

How did Tulsi Gabbard and Abraham Williams meet?

No public account has established how Tulsi Gabbard and Abraham Williams met. Reporting on their wedding identified Williams as a freelance cinematographer and editor, a Hindu of European and Samoan ancestry, and the son of Gabbard’s Honolulu office manager. No further account of their first meeting has appeared publicly or in print.

Did Tulsi Gabbard and Abraham Williams have children?

In 2024, Gabbard said on Meghan McCain’s podcast that she and Williams had tried to start a family. She also said they had undergone several in-vitro fertilisation procedures without success. Her comments provided their public account of their efforts to have children during their marriage.

Who is in Tulsi Gabbard’s family?

Gabbard’s family history includes her father, Mike Gabbard, and her mother, Carol Porter Gabbard. She was married to Eduardo Tamayo from 2002 to 2006, before their divorce. Abraham Williams became her husband in 2015, and their marriage is recorded as continuing to the present.

Sources

  1. Wikipedia, Tulsi Gabbard — biography
  2. Honolulu Civil Beat, Tulsi Gabbard's Leftward Journey (January 17, 2012)
  3. People, Tulsi Gabbard's Wedding Details (April 4, 2015)
  4. People, Inside U.S. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard's 'Perfect' Hawaiian Hindu Wedding (April 10, 2015)
  5. O, The Oprah Magazine, Tulsi Gabbard's Husband Abraham Williams Proposed on a Surfboard (July 29, 2019)
  6. Tulsi Gabbard's Battle With Infertility {{!
  7. Wikidata, Abraham Williams (Q22810617) — structured record

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