The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly,the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio;the other house of the bicameral legislature being the Ohio Senate.
John Shelton Wilder was an American politician who was the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Tennessee for 36 years from January 1971 to January 2007,possibly the longest time anyone has served as Lieutenant Governor or a similar position in the history of the United States. He was a Tennessee state senator from 1959 to 1961 and again from 1967 to 2009. Tennesseans do not elect their lieutenant governor;rather,the Speaker of the Senate,who is first in the line of succession to the governor,is granted the title by statute.
Robert Brian Gibbs is an American politician who served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 7th congressional district from 2011 to 2023. He is a member of the Republican Party. In April 2022,Gibbs announced he was not seeking reelection.
Michael J. Doherty is an American Republican Party politician who has served as the surrogate of Warren County,New Jersey since November 30,2022. He previously served in the New Jersey Senate representing the 23rd Legislative District. He was sworn into the State Senate on November 23,2009,having won the seat held by Marcia A. Karrow,who had earlier been selected by a party convention to succeed Leonard Lance after his election to the United States House of Representatives. Doherty served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 2002 to 2009.
Robert Edward Latta is an American politician who is the United States representative for Ohio's 5th congressional district,serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district includes many of Toledo's suburbs,as well as Findlay,Bowling Green,Napoleon,Sylvania,Defiance and Van Wert. It also includes a sliver of Toledo itself.
Marcia Louise Fudge is an American attorney and politician serving as the 18th United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development since 2021. A member of the Democratic Party,she served as the U.S. representative for Ohio's 11th congressional district from 2008 to 2021. The district includes most of the black-majority precincts between Cleveland and Akron.
John DiMaio is an American Republican Party politician,who was selected on February 21,2009 to fill the New Jersey General Assembly seat for the 23rd legislative district vacated by Marcia A. Karrow,after Karrow filled the vacancy for the New Jersey Senate in the same district. He has been co-chair of the Republican Conference,alongside Nancy Munoz,since January 14,2020. He was elected Minority Leader of the General Assembly after Jon Bramnick was elected to the State Senate.
Kim Lee Ward is an American politician who served as acting lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania and currently serves as President pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate. She represents the 39th Senatorial District which covers the central portions of Westmoreland County,Pennsylvania. Following the resignation of Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman,Ward became acting lieutenant governor of Pennsylvania on January 3,2023,and served until January 17,2023. She is the first female president pro tempore of the Pennsylvania Senate. She was succeeded by Austin Davis as Lieutenant Governor.
Michelle Louise Helene Fischbach is an American attorney and politician who is the U.S. representative from Minnesota's 7th congressional district. The district,which is very rural,is Minnesota's largest congressional district and includes most of the western area of the state. A Republican,Fischbach served as the 49th lieutenant governor of Minnesota under Governor Mark Dayton.
Erik C. Peterson is an American Republican Party politician who serves in the New Jersey General Assembly representing the 23rd Legislative District. Peterson,who previously served on the Hunterdon County Board of Chosen Freeholders,replaced Assemblyman Michael J. Doherty,who was elected to the New Jersey Senate. He was sworn in on December 7,2009,to fill Doherty's vacant Assembly seat.
David Daniels is a Republican politician who served as the Director of the Ohio Department of Agriculture from February 2012 until October 2018. From 2011 to 2012,he represented the 17th District as a member of the Ohio Senate. From 2003 to 2010,he served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives,representing the 86th District.
Dennis Stapleton is a former representative of the Ohio House of Representatives and former Delaware County Commissioner in Delaware County,Ohio. His district encompassed all of Adams,Fayette,Highland and Pike Counties. He served from 1996-2003 when he was succeeded by David T. Daniels.
Larry J. Obhof is an American attorney and politician,who served as a member of the Ohio Senate from 2011 to 2020. He also served as the President of the Senate from 2017 to 2020.
Sean O'Brien is a Judge of the Trumbull County Court of Common Pleas in Ohio. Judge O'Brien is a former Democratic member of the Ohio Senate who represented the 32nd district. The district includes all of Ashtabula and Trumbull counties,as well as a portion of Geauga County. O'Brien formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2011 to 2016.
Gary Scherer is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives for the 92nd district,which includes Fayette County,as well as portions of Pickaway and Ross counties. He was appointed in April 2012 to replace Bob Peterson,who was appointed to the Ohio Senate.
Laura Fine is a Democratic member of the Illinois Senate for the 9th district.
Niraj Jaimini Antani is an American politician who serves as a state senator representing the 6th district in the Ohio State Senate. He served three terms as Representative for the 42nd district of the Ohio House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party. His district,the 6th,is composed of northern,eastern,and southern Montgomery County.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Minnesota took place on November 6,2018,to elect a United States Senator from Minnesota. Incumbent Democratic–Farmer–Labor U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar was reelected in a landslide,defeating Republican state House of Representatives member Jim Newberger. This election was held alongside a special election for Minnesota's other Senate seat,which was held by Al Franken until he resigned in January 2018. U.S. House elections,a gubernatorial election,State House elections,and other elections were also held.
Joseph “Joe”Richard Wright was a member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1976 to 1992 representing the state’s 5th district. From 1981 to 1992 he was the Majority Floor Leader for the Democratic Party.
On May 16,2021,Representative Steve Stivers resigned from his seat in the United States House of Representatives to become president and CEO of the Ohio Chamber of Commerce. Following Stivers' official communication of his intent to resign,Ohio Governor Mike DeWine announced that the special election to fill the remainder of his term would be held on November 2,2021,with the primary election held on August 3,concurrent with the special election in Ohio's 11th congressional district. In the general election on November 2,Republican nominee Mike Carey defeated Democratic nominee Allison Russo by roughly 17 percentage points.
