Leslie Donovan | |
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Member of the Kansas Senate from the 27th district | |
In office January 8, 1997 –January 10, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Michael Terry Harris |
Succeeded by | Gene Suellentrop |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Wray,Colorado,U.S. | May 5,1936
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Mary |
Children | 3 |
Residence | Wichita,Kansas |
Profession | auto dealer |
Leslie D. "Les" Donovan,Sr. (May 5,1936) 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.
He is an auto dealer from Wichita.
Donovan served on these legislative committees: [2]
Legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Donovan includes: [3]
Some of the top contributors to Les Donovan's 2008 campaign,according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics: [6]
Financial,insurance and real estate companies were his largest donor group.
Donovan was unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary. He defeated Democratic nominee Diana Cubbage in the general election,by a margin of 20,773 to 10,922 —65.5 percent to 34.5 percent. In their primaries,Donovan had won 7,455 votes;Cubbage 1,044 votes.
Cubbage,a Wichita educator,had been unopposed in the 2012 Democratic Primary. [7] [8] She had been endorsed by the Kansas Education Association,the American Federation of Teachers-Kansas and the AFL-CIO. [9]
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