James Brian Durkin is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Illinois House of Representatives from 1995 to 2003 and again from 2006 to 2023. He served as the Minority Leader of the Illinois House of Representatives from 2013 to 2023.
Roland Wallace Burris is an American retired Democratic politician and attorney who served as Attorney General of Illinois from 1991 to 1995. In January 2009,he was appointed a United States Senator,succeeding Barack Obama,who resigned to become president of the United States. Burris held this position until November 2010,retiring from front-line politics shortly after.
Patrick Grassley is an American politician. A member of the Republican Party,he is the grandson of Iowa United States Senator Chuck Grassley. He has served as the Iowa State Representative for its 57th District since 2023,having previously served the state's 17th (2007–2013) and 50th (2013–2023) districts in the Iowa House of Representatives. He was elected Speaker of the state's House in 2020.
In December 2008,then-Democratic Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich and his Chief of Staff John Harris were charged with corruption by federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald. As a result,Blagojevich was impeached by the Illinois General Assembly and removed from office by the Illinois Senate in January 2009. The federal investigation continued after his removal from office,and he was indicted on corruption charges in April of that year. The jury found Blagojevich guilty in August 2010 of one charge of making false statements with a mistrial being declared on the other 23 counts due to a hung jury after 14 days of jury deliberation. On June 27,2011,after a retrial,Blagojevich was found guilty of 17 charges,not guilty on one charge and the jury deadlocked after 10 days of deliberation on the two remaining charges. On December 7,2011,Blagojevich was sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Raúl Rafael Labrador is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 33rd attorney general of Idaho since 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he was the U.S. representative for Idaho's 1st congressional district from 2011 to 2019 and chaired the Idaho Republican Party from 2019 to 2020. Prior to this,Labrador represented the 14B district in the Idaho House of Representatives from 2006 to 2010.
Ronald Gene Estes is an American politician who has been the U.S. representative for Kansas's 4th congressional district since April 2017. A member of the Republican Party,he served as Kansas State Treasurer from 2011 to 2017.
Garrett Love is an American Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 38th district from 2011 until 2017. He has been given ratings of 67%,75% and 83% from the American Conservative Union.
The 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 6,2018,to elect the next governor of Kansas. Incumbent Republican governor Sam Brownback was term-limited and could not seek a third consecutive term.
The 2020 United States House of Representatives elections were held on November 3,2020,to elect representatives from all 435 congressional districts across each of the 50 U.S. states to the 117th United States Congress,as well as six non-voting delegates from the District of Columbia and the inhabited U.S. territories. Special House elections were also held on various dates throughout 2020.
Anthony J. Powell was a Judge of the Kansas Court of Appeals,and he now serves as the Kansas Solicitor General.
Cheryl Helmer is an American politician and educator who formerly served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives as the representative from the 79th District. A former school counselor in Wichita,Kansas,she defeated Democratic Rep. Ed Trimmer in the 2018 election. She was defeated by Webster Roth in the 2022 Republican primary. She is a resident of Mulvane,Kansas.
Jamila E. Taylor is an American attorney,activist,and politician who is a representative for District 30 in the Washington House of Representatives. Elected in 2020,she assumed office on January 11,2021.
Colin Nash is an American attorney and politician serving as a member of Boise City Council. He is a former member of the Idaho House of Representatives from District 16,seat B representing Boise and Garden City. Nash was appointed to the Boise City Council in 2023 and elected to the Idaho House in 2020.
Benjamin W. Robbins is an American politician from the state of Alabama. He currently serves as a Republican member of the Alabama House of Representatives,representing District 33,including parts of Coosa,Talladega,and Clay County.
Leah Howell is an American politician who is currently serving as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives for the 82nd district. A Republican from Sedgwick County,Kansas,Howell was elected by Republican precinct committee members to serve as a temporary replacement for Blake Carpenter in the 81st district,who took a leave of absence during the 2022 legislative session due to military obligations related to his role as an officer in the Kansas Air National Guard.
Jesse C. "J.C." Moore is an American politician who served one term in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican from the 93rd district during 2019 and 2020.
Randy Powell is an American politician who served as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2015 to 2018. He represented the 30th District and lived in Olathe,Kansas.
Patricia Kilpatrick is an American politician who served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican from the 29th district from 2005 to 2006. Kilpatrick won the 2004 Republican primary election by a six-point margin,and then had a more comfortable victory in the general election,winning with 66% of the vote. In 2006,she declined to run for re-election and was succeeded by fellow Republican Sheryl Spalding.
Joseph Brian Scapa is an American politician who served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican from 2011 to 2016. He was originally elected in the 87th district in 2010,facing no opposition in the primary and winning a relatively easy general election victory 65% to 35% over Democrat Om Chauhan.
Reid Petty is an American politician who served in the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican for one term in 2013 and 2014. Petty challenged incumbent Republican Carl Holmes in the 2012 primary election;Petty won by only 9 votes,taking 904 ballots (50.2%) to Holmes' 895 (49.7%). The general election was not contested,and Petty took office in January 2013. He served for only one term,declining to run for re-election in 2014,and was succeeded by fellow Republican Shannon Francis.
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