Mike Amyx is the incumbent member of the Kansas House of Representatives for the 45th district, [1] [2] which covers Northwestern Douglas County,including western Lawrence. He has served since 2019. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He had previously been the mayor of Lawrence for six terms,1985–86,1987–88,2006–07,2010–11,2014–15,and 2015–17. He served a four-year term as a Douglas County Commissioner. [3]
2019-2020 Kansas House committee assignments [4] [5]
Douglas County is a county located in the U.S. state of Kansas. Its county seat and most populous city is Lawrence. As of the 2020 census,the county population was 118,785,making it the fifth-most populous county in Kansas. The county was named after Stephen Douglas,a U.S. Senator from Illinois and advocate for the popular sovereignty choice in the Kansas slavery debate.
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