Tom Sawyer is an American politician currently serving as the Minority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives. A Democrat,Sawyer has represented the 95th district,covering southwest Wichita,since 2013. Sawyer previously represented the same district from 1987 to 1999 and from 2003 to 2009,serving as both Majority Leader and Minority Leader during his first stint in the legislature.
Broderick Henderson is a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 35th district. He has served since 1995.
Melody McCray-Miller was a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 89th district. She served from 2005 through 2013.
Cindy Neighbor is a current Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,who represents the 18th district. She first served from 2003 to 2004 as a Republican,and then served as a Democrat from 2007 to 2011. Neighbor ran for re-election in 2010 and was defeated by Republican John Rubin. Neighbor ran again in 2016 and reclaimed her seat,from Erik Jenkins,the Republican who ran to replace the retiring Rubin.
Terrie Huntington is an American politician and member of the Republican Party who served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2003 to 2010 and as a member of the Kansas State Senate from 2010 to 2013.
Ron Worley is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 30th district. He served from 2007 through 2013,having been defeated in the 2012 Republican primary by Rep. Lance Kinzer of Olathe,after Kinzer and Worley were put in the same district after re-districting. Kinzer then subsequently retired in 2014,endorsing Randy Powell as his successor. Worley challenged Powell for his old seat in the primary,but was subsequently defeated.
Louis Ruiz is a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing several districts in Kansas City since 2005. He is a retired employee of Lucent Technologies.
Tom Burroughs is a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 33rd district,and formerly served as the House Minority Leader. A native of Kansas City,Kansas,he has served since 1997.
Ann Mah was a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 53rd district. She served between 2005 and 2013. She was elected to the Kansas State Board of Education in November,2016,representing District 4.
Sean Gatewood was a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 57th district in Kansas,from 2009 to 2013. He is a graduate of Fort Hays State University.
Jerry Henry is a former Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 48th and 63rd district. He served from 1993 to 2003,2003 to 2017,when he was succeeded by Republican John Eplee.
Deena Horst is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 69th district. She served from 1995 until 2010,when she was defeated in a primary by Tom Arpke,who would win the seat in the general election.
Vincent Wetta was a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 80th district,from 2007 to 2013.
Jo Ann Pottorff is a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 83rd district. She served from 1985 to 2013. Prior to her election she served as President of the Kansas Association of School Boards,as well as the Wichita School Board.
Nile J. Dillmore was a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing the 92nd district. Born in Neodesha,Kansas,Dillmore served from 2001 until his resignation on September 5,2013,the day after his 66th birthday. His reason for leaving,he said,was that he "...wanted to look around for some other things to do."
Dale Swenson is a Democratic former member of the Kansas House of Representatives from the 97th district in Wichita,Kansas,Kansas. From 1995 to 2008,he served as a Republican lawmaker;in 2009,he began a single two-year term as a Democrat. He was unseated on November 2,2010,by the Democrat-turned-Republican Leslie Osterman,a retired health systems analyst from Wichita.
Mario Goico is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives who represented Wichita,Kansas.
Leslie D. "Les" Donovan,Sr. was a Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 27th district from 1997 to 2017. He was the Assistant Majority Leader in 2001 and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 2000. He was a Kansas Representative from 1992 to 1997.
Ponka-We Victors is a community support worker from Wichita,Kansas,who has been a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing District 103,since 2011. She is one of three Native Americans in the Kansas legislature.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas were held on November 6,2018,to elect the four U.S. representatives from the state of Kansas,one from each of the state's four congressional districts. The state congressional delegation changed from a 4–0 Republican majority to a 3–1 Republican majority,the first time the Democrats held a house seat in the state since 2010.
