125th Ohio General Assembly
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The 125th Ohio General Assembly was the legislative body of the state of Ohio in 2003 and 2004. In this General Assembly, both the Ohio Senate
Ohio Senate
The Ohio State Senate is the upper house of the Ohio General Assembly, the legislative body for the U.S. state of Ohio. There are 33 State Senators. The state legislature meets in the state capital, Columbus. The President of the Senate presides over the body when in session, and is currently Tom...

 and the Ohio House of Representatives
Ohio House of Representatives
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....

 were controlled by the Republican Party
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Democratic Party. Founded by anti-slavery expansion activists in 1854, it is often called the GOP . The party's platform generally reflects American conservatism in the U.S...

. In the Senate, there were 22 Republicans and 11 Democrats
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...

. In the House, there were 63 Republicans and 36 Democrats. It is also the first General Assembly to use redistricted legislative districts after the 2000 Census.

Vacancies

  • March 4, 2003: Representative Jeffrey Manning
    Jeffrey Manning
    Jeffrey Manning was a county prosecutor and a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.He was appointed to be Lorain County, Ohio prosecutor to succeed Gregory White, who left to become United States Attorney for Northern Ohio. Manning died of complications of a heart condition in 2004...

     (R-57th) resigns to become Lorain County, Ohio
    Lorain County, Ohio
    Lorain County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, and is considered to be a part of what is locally referred to as Greater Cleveland. As of the 2010 census, its population was 301,356. an increase from 284,664 in 2000...

     Prosecutor.
  • August 31, 2003: Senator Leigh Herington
    Leigh Herington
    Leigh Herington is an Ohio Democratic politician and a former member of the Ohio Senate. Herington was a long-serving local attorney and Chairman of the Portage County Democratic Party when appointed to replace Senator Bob Nettle in 1995, who had resigned...

     (D-28th) resigns.
  • December 2, 2003: Representative Dean DePiero
    Dean DePiero
    Dean DePiero is the mayor of Parma, Ohio, and a former Cleveland-area member of the Ohio House of Representatives.-External links:*http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=58...

     (D-15th) resigns to become Mayor of Parma, Ohio
    Parma, Ohio
    Parma is a city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio, United States. It is the largest suburb of Cleveland and the seventh largest city in the state of Ohio...

    .
  • January 6, 2004: Senator James E. Carnes
    James E. Carnes
    James E. Carnes was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1995 to 2004, representing the 20th District, which encompasses much of Southeastern Ohio. He was succeeded by Joy Padgett, who was appointed to fill out the remainder of his term upon his resignation in 2004.-External links:*...

     (R-20th) resigns.
  • January 16, 2004: Representative Greg Jolivette
    Greg Jolivette
    Greg Jolivette is a politician in the U.S. state of Ohio: a current Butler County Commissioner, he has served in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the Cincinnati area....

     (R-54th) resigns to become a Commissioner in Butler County, Ohio
    Butler County, Ohio
    Butler County is a county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of 2010, the population was 368,130. Its county seat is Hamilton. It is named for General Richard Butler, who died in 1791 fighting Indians in northern Ohio. Butler's army marched out of Fort Hamilton, where the city of...

    .
  • March 5, 2004: Representative Bryan C. Williams
    Bryan C. Williams
    Bryan C. Williams was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from -2004. He resigned on March 5, 2004 to become the Summit County, Ohio Chair of the Board of Elections. He was succeeded by Marilyn Slaby, who went on to lose to another Brian Williams, who was a Democrat.-External links:*...

     (R-41) resigns to become Chair of Summit County, Ohio
    Summit County, Ohio
    Summit County is an urban county located in the state of Ohio, United States. As of the 2000 census, the population was 542,899. In the 2010 Census the population was 541,781. Its county seat is Akron...

     Board of Elections.

Appointments

  • January 6, 2003: Steve Stivers
    Steve Stivers
    Steve Stivers is the U.S. Representative for He is a member of the Republican Party. Stivers previously served in the Ohio Senate, representing the 16th district...

     appointed to Senate District 16 due to the resignation of Priscilla D. Mead.
  • January 6, 2003: Marc Dann
    Marc Dann
    Marc Dann Marc Dann Marc Dann (born March 12, 1962, in Evanston, Illinois, is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1984 from the University of Michigan and a law degree in 1987 from Case Western Reserve University, and practiced law in Youngstown,...

     appointed to Senate District 32 due to the resignation of Tim Ryan.
  • April 8, 2003: Earl Martin
    Earl Martin
    Earl Martin is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, succeeded by Matt Lundy. He is the son of Mayor Earl Martin of Rocky River, Ohio. Former Representative Martin operates Martin's Deli in Bay Village, Ohio and Avon, Ohio. His son serves in the United States Marines.- References :...

     appointed to House District 57 due to the resignation of Jeffrey Manning
    Jeffrey Manning
    Jeffrey Manning was a county prosecutor and a member of the Ohio House of Representatives.He was appointed to be Lorain County, Ohio prosecutor to succeed Gregory White, who left to become United States Attorney for Northern Ohio. Manning died of complications of a heart condition in 2004...

    .
  • September 3, 2003: Kimberly Zurz appointed to Senate District 28 due to the resignation of Leigh Herington
    Leigh Herington
    Leigh Herington is an Ohio Democratic politician and a former member of the Ohio Senate. Herington was a long-serving local attorney and Chairman of the Portage County Democratic Party when appointed to replace Senator Bob Nettle in 1995, who had resigned...

    .
  • December 2, 2003: Timothy J. DeGeeter
    Timothy J. DeGeeter
    Timothy J. DeGeeter is an Ohio lawyer and politician who serves as the State Representative for the 15th House District, which includes Brooklyn, Middleburg Heights, Parma and Linndale.-Career:...

     appointed to House District 15 due to the resignation of Dean DePiero
    Dean DePiero
    Dean DePiero is the mayor of Parma, Ohio, and a former Cleveland-area member of the Ohio House of Representatives.-External links:*http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=58...

    .
  • January 6, 2004: Joy Padgett
    Joy Padgett
    Joy Padgett is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 20th district until the end of 2008. In 2006, dogged by personal scandals, she ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and for Congress in...

     appointed to the 20th Senatorial District due to the resignation of James E. Carnes
    James E. Carnes
    James E. Carnes was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1995 to 2004, representing the 20th District, which encompasses much of Southeastern Ohio. He was succeeded by Joy Padgett, who was appointed to fill out the remainder of his term upon his resignation in 2004.-External links:*...

    .
  • January 21, 2004: Courtney Combs
    Courtney Combs
    Courtney Combs is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 54th District since 2004. He is the Chairman of the House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.-Career:...

     appointed to House District 54 due to the resignation of Greg Jolivette
    Greg Jolivette
    Greg Jolivette is a politician in the U.S. state of Ohio: a current Butler County Commissioner, he has served in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the Cincinnati area....

    .
  • March 5, 2004: Marilyn Slaby
    Marilyn Slaby
    Marilyn Slaby was a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Appointed in 2004, to complete the term started by Bryan C. Williams. She lost reelection in 2004 to Brian Williams.-External links:**...

     appointed to House District 41 due to the resignation of Bryan C. Williams
    Bryan C. Williams
    Bryan C. Williams was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from -2004. He resigned on March 5, 2004 to become the Summit County, Ohio Chair of the Board of Elections. He was succeeded by Marilyn Slaby, who went on to lose to another Brian Williams, who was a Democrat.-External links:*...

    .

Leadership changes

  • January 6, 2004: John Boccieri
    John Boccieri
    John Boccieri is a one-term U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was defeated by Republican Jim Renacci on November 2, 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.-Early life and career:Boccieri...

     resigns from Assistant Minority Whip; Lance Mason
    Lance Mason
    Lance T. Mason is a judge for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. He formerly was Democratic member of the Ohio Senate, and represented the 25th District from 2007 to 2008. Nina Turner currently represents his former district. Prior to that, he was a member of the Ohio House of...

     appointed.

Majority leadership

  • President of the Senate: Doug White
    Doug White
    Doug White of Manchester, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party who served as president of the Ohio Senate for two years, from 2003 to 2005....

  • President pro tempore of the Senate: Jeff Jacobson
    Jeff Jacobson (Ohio)
    Jeff Jacobson was a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 6th District starting 2001. Previously he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1992 until 2000....

  • Floor Leader: Randy Gardner
    Randy Gardner (Ohio politician)
    Randall L. Gardner is an American politician, currently a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 6th District since 2008. He formerly held the same seat from 1985 to 2000, and was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2001 to 2008...

  • Assistant Majority Floor Leader: Robert Spada
    Robert Spada
    Robert F. Spada is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 24th District of the U.S. state of Ohio from 1999 to 2008.- External links :* official Ohio Senate website* profile*Follow the Money - Robert F Spada...

  • Whip: Steve Austria
    Steve Austria
    Stephen Clement "Steve" Austria is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches from Springfield to the southern suburbs of Columbus....

  • Assistant Majority Whip: Jay Hottinger

Minority leadership

  • Leader: C.J. Prentiss
  • Assistant Leader: Mark Mallory
  • Whip: Teresa Fedor
    Teresa Fedor
    Teresa Fedor is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who has represented the 47th District since 2011. She represented the same district from 2001 to 2002, and was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2003 to 2010.-Life and career:...

  • Assistant Whip: Bob Hagan
    Bob Hagan
    Robert F. Hagan is an American politician affiliated with the Democratic party who has held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives for the Sixtieth District since 2007...


Members of the 125th Senate

District Senator Party First elected
1 Lynn Wachtmann
Lynn Wachtmann
Lynn Wachtmann is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who has represented the 75th District since 2007. Prior to his term in the House, Wachtmann was a two-term state Senator, representing the 1st District of the Ohio Senate from 1999 to 2006, and the 83rd District of the Ohio...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_01.html
Republican 1998
2 Randy Gardner
Randy Gardner (Ohio politician)
Randall L. Gardner is an American politician, currently a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 6th District since 2008. He formerly held the same seat from 1985 to 2000, and was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2001 to 2008...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_02.html
Republican 2000
3 David Goodman
David Goodman (politician)
David Goodman is a Republican politician who served in the Ohio General Assembly. He is the director of the Ohio Department of Commerce.-Life and career:...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_03.html
Republican 2001 (Appt.)
4 Scott Nein
Scott Nein
Scott R. Nein of Middletown, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party, who formerly served in the Ohio General Assembly. An insurance agent, Nein was encouraged by John Boehner to run for the Ohio House of Representatives to succeed him in 1990. He did so, and ended up winning the...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_04.html
Republican 1995 (Appt.)
5 Tom Roberts
Tom Roberts (Ohio politician)
Tom Roberts is an Ohio Democratic politician who formerly served as a member of the Ohio General Assembly. When Ed Orlett resigned from the Ohio House of Representatives in 1986, House Democrats appointed Roberts to serve the remainder of his term...

Democratic 2002 (Appt.)
6 Jeff Jacobson
Jeff Jacobson (Ohio)
Jeff Jacobson was a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 6th District starting 2001. Previously he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1992 until 2000....

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_06.html
Republican 2000
7 Robert Schuler
Bob Schuler
Robert Schuler was a Republican politician who formerly served in the Ohio General Assembly. Schuler first entered politics in the late 1970s as a member of the Deer Park City Council and also spent four years as a Sycamore Township trustee from 1988 to 1992. Initially running for the Ohio House...

Republican 2002
8 Lou Blessing
Lou Blessing
Louis W. Blessing Jr. of Cincinnati, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party. He is Speaker pro tempore of the Ohio House of Representatives.-Career:...

Republican 1996
9 Mark Mallory http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_09.html Democratic 1998
10 Steve Austria
Steve Austria
Stephen Clement "Steve" Austria is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches from Springfield to the southern suburbs of Columbus....

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_10.html
Republican 2000
11 Teresa Fedor
Teresa Fedor
Teresa Fedor is a Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who has represented the 47th District since 2011. She represented the same district from 2001 to 2002, and was a member of the Ohio Senate from 2003 to 2010.-Life and career:...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_11.html
Democratic 2002
12 Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan (Ohio politician)
James Daniel "Jim" Jordan is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_12.html
Republican 2000
13 Jeff Armbruster
Jeff Armbruster
Jeffry Armbruster is an Ohio politician. He served two terms as the mayor of North Ridgeville, Ohio and represented the 13th district in the Ohio Senate from 1999 to 2006. He is the safety service director of North Ridgeville.-References:...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_13.html
Republican 1998
14 Doug White
Doug White
Doug White of Manchester, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party who served as president of the Ohio Senate for two years, from 2003 to 2005....

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_14.html
Republican 1996 (Appt.)
15 Ray Miller
Ray Miller (Ohio legislator)
Ray Miller is a Democratic politician and a former member of the Ohio General Assembly.-Life and career:A graduate of the Ohio State University and a former staffer in the Carter Administration, Miller was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives in 1982, succeeding Leslie Brown. He won...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_15.html
Democratic 2002
16 Steve Stivers
Steve Stivers
Steve Stivers is the U.S. Representative for He is a member of the Republican Party. Stivers previously served in the Ohio Senate, representing the 16th district...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_16.html
Republican 2003 (Appt.)
17 John Carey http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_17.html Republican 2002
18 Robert A. Gardner
Robert A. Gardner (politician)
Robert Gardner is an Ohio politician and former Republican member of the Ohio Senate. He represented the 18th District, which encompasses all of Lake County as well as portions of Cuyahoga and Geauga, from 1997 to 2004. He was succeeded by Tim Grendell...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_18.html
Republican 1996
19 Bill Harris
Bill Harris (Ohio politician)
Bill Harris is a Republican politician, who served in the Ohio General Assembly, notably as President of the Ohio Senate from 2005 to 2010.-Life and career:...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_19.html
Republican 2000 (Appt.)
20 Joy Padgett
Joy Padgett
Joy Padgett is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 20th district until the end of 2008. In 2006, dogged by personal scandals, she ran unsuccessfully for Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and for Congress in...

Republican 2004 (Appt.)
21 C.J. Prentiss http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_21.html Democratic 1998
22 Ron Amstutz
Ron Amstutz
Ron Amstutz is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 3rd District since 2009. Prior to his current time in the House, he served in the Ohio Senate, representing the 22nd District from 2001 to 2008, and an early stint in the same House seat from 1981 to 2000...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_22.html
Republican 2000
23 Dan Brady
Dan Brady
Daniel R. Brady of Cleveland, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party. Brady holds a bachelor of arts degree in history and political science from Ohio University. An early staff member of Ohio Citizen Action, Brady was a member of the Cleveland city council from 1986 to 1996. Brady...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_23.html
Democratic 1998
24 Robert Spada
Robert Spada
Robert F. Spada is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 24th District of the U.S. state of Ohio from 1999 to 2008.- External links :* official Ohio Senate website* profile*Follow the Money - Robert F Spada...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_24.html
Republican 1999 (Appt.)
25 Eric Fingerhut
Eric Fingerhut
Eric David Fingerhut is an American politician of the Ohio Democratic party. Fingerhut was appointed the Chancellor of the Ohio Board of Regents on March 14, 2007 by Governor Ted Strickland. This position makes him a member of the Ohio Governor's Cabinet...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_25.html
Democratic 1998
26 Larry Mumper
Larry Mumper
Larry A. Mumper is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 26th District from 1997 to 2008.-External links:* profile*Follow the Money - Larry Mumper** campaign contributions...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_26.html
Republican 1997 (Appt.)
27 Kevin Coughlin
Kevin Coughlin
Kevin J. Coughlin is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate, who represented the 27th District from 2001 to 2010. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1997 until 2000...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_27.html
Republican 2001 (Appt.)
28 Kimberly Zurz http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_28.html Democratic 2003 (Appt.)
29 Kirk Schuring
Kirk Schuring
Kirk Schuring is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1993 to 2002, and of the Ohio Senate from 2003 to 2010. Schuring was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 16th congressional district in 2008...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_29.html
Republican 2002
30 Gregory L. DiDonato http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_30.html Democratic 1996
31 Jay Hottinger http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_31.html Republican 1998 (Appt.)
32 Marc Dann
Marc Dann
Marc Dann Marc Dann Marc Dann (born March 12, 1962, in Evanston, Illinois, is an American politician of the Democratic Party. He earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1984 from the University of Michigan and a law degree in 1987 from Case Western Reserve University, and practiced law in Youngstown,...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_32.html
Democratic 2003 (Appt.)
33 Bob Hagan
Bob Hagan
Robert F. Hagan is an American politician affiliated with the Democratic party who has held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives for the Sixtieth District since 2007...

 http://www.senate.state.oh.us/senators/bios/sd_33.html
Democratic 1997 (Appt.)

Majority leadership

  • Speaker of the House: Larry Householder
    Larry Householder
    Larry Householder of Glenford, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party who served as speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005....

  • President pro tempore of the Senate: Gary Cates
    Gary Cates
    Gary Cates is a Republican politician who served in the Ohio General Assembly. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2004, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 2005 to 2011.-Life and career:...

  • Floor Leader: Patricia Clancy
  • Assistant Majority Floor Leader: Steve Buehrer
    Steve Buehrer
    Stephen P. Buehrer is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate who represented the 1st District, and was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Congress in the special election for Ohio's 5th congressional district to replace the late Paul Gillmor...

  • Majority Whip: Jim Trakas
    Jim Trakas
    James Peter Trakas is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Ohio's 10th congressional district in 2008....

  • Assistant Majority Whip: Jon Peterson
    Jon Peterson
    Jon Peterson is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 2nd District from 2000 to 2008. Peterson has served as Delaware County Auditor, and currently serves as the Delaware County Treasurer.-External links:*...


Minority leadership

  • Leader: Chris Redfern
    Chris Redfern
    Chris Redfern is the current chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. He won election to the chairmanship of the Ohio Democratic Party in December, 2005 and reelection in 2008...

  • Assistant Leader: Joyce Beatty
    Joyce Beatty
    Joyce Beatty in Dayton, Ohio, is Senior Vice-President for Outreach and Engagement at Ohio State University. She is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 27th House District from 1999 to 2008. She served as Minority Leader.-Life and career:Beatty has...

  • Whip: Dale Miller
    Dale Miller
    Dale Miller is a former Democratic member of the Cuyahoga County Council, serving since January 1, 2011. He served in the Ohio Senate from 2006 to 2010, and in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1997 to 2006...

  • Assistant Whip: John Boccieri
    John Boccieri
    John Boccieri is a one-term U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was defeated by Republican Jim Renacci on November 2, 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.-Early life and career:Boccieri...

     (January 6, 2003-January 6, 2004), Lance Mason
    Lance Mason
    Lance T. Mason is a judge for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. He formerly was Democratic member of the Ohio Senate, and represented the 25th District from 2007 to 2008. Nina Turner currently represents his former district. Prior to that, he was a member of the Ohio House of...

     (January 6, 2004-)

Members of the 125th House of Representatives

District Representative Party First Elected
1 Chuck Blasdel
Chuck Blasdel
Chuck Blasdel is a former Speaker Pro-Tempore in the Ohio House of Representatives., and was the Representative of Ohio's 1st district from 2001 through 2006. He was the Republican nominee for U.S. Congress in Ohio's 6th congressional district....

Rep 2000
2 Jon Peterson
Jon Peterson
Jon Peterson is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 2nd District from 2000 to 2008. Peterson has served as Delaware County Auditor, and currently serves as the Delaware County Treasurer.-External links:*...

Rep 2000
3 Jim Carmichael
Jim Carmichael
James F. Carmichael, also known as Jim Carmichael, is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 3rd District from 2000–2008. He currently is a commissioner for Wayne County.-External links:*...

Rep 2000
4 John R. Willamowski
John R. Willamowski
John Willamowski is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives.-External links:*http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=4...

Rep 1997 (Appt.)
5 Tim Schaffer
Tim Schaffer
Tim Schaffer is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate who has represented the 31st District since 2007. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 until 2006. He serves as Chairman of the Senate Ways and Means and Economic Development Committee.-Career:Schaffer holds a B.A...

Rep 2000
6 Bob Latta
Bob Latta
Robert Edward 'Bob' Latta is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district, the second-largest in the state, includes most of Toledo's suburbs, including Fremont and Bowling Green....

Rep 2000
7 Ed Jerse
Ed Jerse
Edward S. Jerse of Euclid, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party who served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. In 2004, he ran for the Democratic nomination for U.S. representative for Ohio for the 14th congressional district , but lost to political novice Capri S...

Dem 1995 (Appt.)
8 Lance Mason
Lance Mason
Lance T. Mason is a judge for the Cuyahoga County Court of Common Pleas. He formerly was Democratic member of the Ohio Senate, and represented the 25th District from 2007 to 2008. Nina Turner currently represents his former district. Prior to that, he was a member of the Ohio House of...

Democratic 2002 (Appt.)
9 Claudette Woodard
Claudette Woodard
Claudette Woodard is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 9th District from 2001-2006.-External links:**...

Dem 2000
10 Shirley Smith
Shirley Smith (politician)
Shirley Smith is a Democratic member of the Ohio Senate, who has represented the 21st District since 2007. Smith also serves as assistant minority leader in the Senate...

Dem 1998
11 Annie L. Key
Annie L. Key
Annie Key is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 11th District from 2001−2006. A former telephone worker with Ohio Bell and later AT&T, Key initially ran for the Ohio House of Representatives in 2000 to succeed Troy Lee James, who had held the seat for...

Dem 2000
12 Michael DeBose
Michael DeBose
Michael DeBose is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives. He was first elected to that position on 13 February 2002....

Dem 2002 (Appt.)
13 Michael J. Skindell
Michael J. Skindell
Michael J. Skindell is an American politician and member of the Democratic party in Ohio. He is a practicing attorney in Cleveland, and represents the Twenty Third District of the Ohio Senate...

Dem 2002
14 Dale Miller
Dale Miller
Dale Miller is a former Democratic member of the Cuyahoga County Council, serving since January 1, 2011. He served in the Ohio Senate from 2006 to 2010, and in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1997 to 2006...

Dem 1996
15 Timothy J. DeGeeter
Timothy J. DeGeeter
Timothy J. DeGeeter is an Ohio lawyer and politician who serves as the State Representative for the 15th House District, which includes Brooklyn, Middleburg Heights, Parma and Linndale.-Career:...

Dem 2003 (Appt.)
16 Sally Conway Kilbane
Sally Conway Kilbane
Sally Conway Kilbane is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 16th District from 1999-2006.-External links:*...

Rep 1998
17 Jim Trakas
Jim Trakas
James Peter Trakas is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, and was the Republican nominee for the United States House of Representatives in Ohio's 10th congressional district in 2008....

Rep 1998
18 Tom Patton
Tom Patton
Tom Patton is a member and current majority leader of the Ohio Senate, representing the Twenty Fourth District since 2008. He formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008...

Rep 2002
19 Larry L. Flowers
Larry L. Flowers
Larry L. Flowers is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 19th District from 2001-2008. He currently is serving as the fire marshal for the state of Ohio.-External links:* official OH House website* profile...

Republican 2000
20 Jim McGregor
Jim McGregor
Jim McGregor is a Republican politician who was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 20th District from 2001 to 2008.-Life and career:...

Republican 2001 (Appt.)
21 Linda Reidelbach
Linda Reidelbach
Linda Reidelbach is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who served six years.-External links:*-References:*...

Rep 2000
22 Jim Hughes
Jim Hughes (Ohio Politician)
Jim Hughes is a member of the Ohio Senate who has represented the Sixteenth District since January 2009. He served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2000 to 2008...

Rep 2000
23 Larry Wolpert
Larry Wolpert
Larry Wolpert is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 23rd District from 2001 to 2008. He is the executive director on the Joint Committee on Agency Rule Review.-Life and career:...

Rep 2000
24 Geoffrey C. Smith
Geoffrey C. Smith
Geoff Smith is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the western part of Columbus from 1999-2006. Originally appointed, he went on to win re-election in 2000, 2002, and 2004 until he was defeated in the 2006 general election by Ted Celeste.-References:...

Republican 1998
25 Dan Stewart
Dan Stewart
Dan Stewart is a Democrat who served in the Ohio House of Representatives.-Life and career:Stewart was born and raised on Columbus's west side...

Democrat 2002
26 Larry Price
Larry Price (Ohio politician)
Larry Price is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the Columbus, Ohio area-References:...

Democratic 2002
27 Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty
Joyce Beatty in Dayton, Ohio, is Senior Vice-President for Outreach and Engagement at Ohio State University. She is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 27th House District from 1999 to 2008. She served as Minority Leader.-Life and career:Beatty has...

Democratic 1999 (Appt.)
28 Jim Raussen
Jim Raussen
Jim Raussen is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 29th District from 2003 to 2008.-External links:*...

Republican 2002
29 Patricia Clancy Republican 1996
30 Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz
Bill Seitz is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, who has represented the 8th District since his appointment in October 2007. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 until 2007.-Career:...

Rep 2000
31 Steve Driehaus
Steve Driehaus
Steven L. "Steve" Driehaus is the former U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He is a member of the Democratic Party...

Dem 2000
32 Catherine L. Barrett
Catherine L. Barrett
Catherine L. Barrett of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who served for eight years, the applicable term limit for that body...

Democratic 1998
33 Tyrone Yates
Tyrone Yates
Tyrone Keith Yates is a Hamilton County Municipal Court Judge. He was elected on November 8, 2011. He was unopposed to fill the unexpired term of Judge Nadine Lovelace Allen who was elected to the Hamilton County Court of Common Pleas. His new term runs until January 1, 2014. He was appointed...

Democratic 2002
34 Tom Brinkman Jr. Republican 2000
35 Michelle G. Schneider
Michelle G. Schneider
Michelle G. Schneider is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 35th District from 2001–2008, and at a time serving as Majority Whip...

Republican 2000
36 Arlene Setzer
Arlene Setzer
Arlene Setzer is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 36th District from 2001 to 2008.-Life and career:...

Rep 2000
37 Jon Husted
Jon Husted
Jon A. Husted is an American politician of the Republican Party who currently serves as Ohio Secretary of State. Previously, he was a member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 6th district . He also previously served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2009 and Speaker...

Rep 2000
38 John White
John White (Ohio politician)
John White is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 38th District from 2001 to 2008.-Life and career:White is a graduate of Wright State University in marketing, and has had a career as a human resources consultant...

Rep 2000
39 Dixie Allen
Dixie Allen
Dixie Allen is a politician from Dayton, Ohio, who served in the Ohio House of Representatives and on the Montgomery County Commission. After the resignation of Rep. Lloyd Lewis Jr. in 1998, Allen was chosen as a political newcomer to replace him. She went on to win a full term in 1998, and was...

Democratic 1998 (Appt.)
40 Fred Strahorn Dem 2000
41 Marilyn Slaby
Marilyn Slaby
Marilyn Slaby was a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives. Appointed in 2004, to complete the term started by Bryan C. Williams. She lost reelection in 2004 to Brian Williams.-External links:**...

Rep 2004 (Appt.)
42 John Widowfield
John Widowfield
John Widowfield is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 42nd District from 2003 to 2008. He resigned amid allegations that he had purchased Ohio State University football tickets with money from his campaign and then sold them for profit.-External...

Rep 2001 (Appt.)
43 Mary Taylor
Mary Taylor (Ohio politician)
Mary Taylor is the 65th and current Lieutenant Governor of Ohio.-Early life and business career:Taylor was born in 1961. She attended the Springfield Township school system. She attended the University of Akron, obtaining a Bachelor degree in Accounting and Master's degree in Taxation...

Republican 2002
44 Barbara Sykes
Barbara Sykes
Barbara Sykes is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 44th District from to 2006.-External links:** profile*Follow the Money - Vernon Sykes** campaign contributions...

Dem 2000
45 Robert J. Otterman
Robert J. Otterman
Robert J. Otterman is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 45th District from 2001–2008, when he was replaced by his son, John Otterman.-References:...

Democratic 2000
46 Lynn Olman
Lynn Olman
Lynn Olman is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the Toledo area.Public Service----Lynn served as a member and President of Maumee City Council for fifteen years...

Republican 1995 (Appt.)
47 Peter Ujvagi
Peter Ujvagi
Peter Sandor Ujvagi is a former Hungarian-born American Democratic state representative of Ohio state in the 47th District, who represents Toledo and Lucas County.-Life and career:...

Democratic 2002
48 Edna Brown
Edna Brown
Edna Brown of Toledo, Ohio, is a Democratic member of the Ohio Senate who has represented the 11th District since 2011. She served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2002-2010...

Dem 2001 (Appt.)
49 Jeanine Perry
Jeanine Perry
Jeanine Perry is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, succeeded by Matt Szollosi.-External links:*References=...

Democratic 1998
50 John Hagan
John Hagan (Ohio politician)
John Hagan is an Ohio Republican Party politician and a former member of the Ohio General Assembly. The owner of a heating and plumbing business and a former Malboro Township Trustee, Hagan ran against newly appointed Representative Mike Stevens in 2000, and won a seat in the Ohio House of...

Rep 2000
51 Scott Oelslager
Scott Oelslager
Scott Oelslager is a Republican politician from Ohio. He was first appointed to the Ohio Senate in 1985, and was re-elected in 1987 with 52% of the vote. He was re-elected for three further terms. In 2002 he was elected to the Ohio House of Representatives for the 51st district, and was re-elected...

Rep 2002
52 Mary Cirelli
Mary Cirelli
Mary Cirelli is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 52nd District from 2001-2004.-External links:*...

Dem >- 53 Shawn Webster
Shawn Webster
Shawn Webster is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 53rd District from 2001 to 2008.-Life and career:...

Rep 2000
54 Courtney Combs
Courtney Combs
Courtney Combs is a Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 54th District since 2004. He is the Chairman of the House Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee.-Career:...

Rep 2004 (Appt.)
55 Gary Cates
Gary Cates
Gary Cates is a Republican politician who served in the Ohio General Assembly. He was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 1995 to 2004, and a member of the Ohio Senate from 2005 to 2011.-Life and career:...

Rep 1995 (Appt.)
56 Joseph Koziura
Joseph Koziura
Joseph Koziura is a Democratic politician who served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 1985 to 1995 and again from 2001 until 2010.-Life and career:...

Dem 2001 (Appt.)
57 Earl Martin
Earl Martin
Earl Martin is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, succeeded by Matt Lundy. He is the son of Mayor Earl Martin of Rocky River, Ohio. Former Representative Martin operates Martin's Deli in Bay Village, Ohio and Avon, Ohio. His son serves in the United States Marines.- References :...

Republican 2003 (Appt.)
58 Kathleen Walcher
Kathleen Walcher
Kathleen Walcher is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving from 2003-2006.-External links:*http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=58*...

Rep 2002
59 Kenneth Carano
Kenneth Carano
Ken Carano is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 59th District from 2001-2007.Ken also served as Austintown Township Trustee and as the General Manager of Austintown Community Television-External links:*...

Dem 2000
60 Sylvester Patton
Sylvester Patton
Sylvester Patton is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, succeeded by Bob Hagan.-Marriage and children:Married to the former Juanell C. Spooney, they have two children; Rev. Sylvester Delaney Patton, III and Marcus Patton -External links:*...

Democratic 1997 (Appt.)
61 John Boccieri
John Boccieri
John Boccieri is a one-term U.S. Representative for , serving from 2009 until 2011. He was defeated by Republican Jim Renacci on November 2, 2010. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives.-Early life and career:Boccieri...

Democratic 2000
62 Jamie Callender
Jamie Callender
Jamie Callender is an Ohio Republican politician, attorney, and professor. He is an alumnus of University of Kentucky, Cleveland State University, and Cleveland-Marshall College of Law ....

Rep 1996
63 Ron Young
Ron Young (Ohio politician)
Ron Young has been a member of the Ohio House of Representatives since 2011. He served in the same seat from 1997 to 2004.-Career:Young served in the United States Army for three years, and attended Kent State University, where he received a bachelor’s degree in Psychology. He taught before...

Rep
64 Daniel Sferra
Daniel Sferra
Dan Sferra is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 64th District from 2001-2004.-External links:*http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=64...

Democratic 2000
65 Sandra Harwood
Sandra Harwood
Sandra Harwood is a Democratic politician who served in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 65th District from 2003 to 2010.-Life and career:...

Dem 2002
66 Jean Schmidt
Jean Schmidt
Jeannette Marie Hoffman Schmidt, is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2005. She is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches from eastern Cincinnati to Portsmouth....

Rep 2000
67 Tom Raga
Tom Raga
Thomas A. Raga is an American politician of the Republican Party who previously represented the Sixty-seventh District in the Ohio House of Representatives. In February 2006, he was named by J. Kenneth Blackwell as his running mate in the May 2, 2006, primary for Governor and Lieutenant Governor...

Rep 2000
68 Kathleen Chandler
Kathleen Chandler
Kathleen Chandler is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 68th District from 2003-2010.-External links:*...

Dem 2002
69 Chuck Calvert
Chuck Calvert
Chuck Calvert is a member of the Ohio Elections Commission, and a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving the 69th District from 1999-2006. With long serving Representative William G. Batchelder facing term limits, Calvert ran in 1998 to take his seat. He went on to win...

Rep 1998
70 Kevin DeWine
Kevin DeWine
Kevin DeWine is Chairman of the Ohio Republican Party, serving since January 2009. Previously, he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives....

Rep 2000
71 David R. Evans
David R. Evans (Ohio politician)
David R. Evans is a Republican politician who formerly served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives. When Representative Jay Hottinger resigned from the Ohio House in 1998 to take a seat in the Ohio Senate, Evans was appointed to serve out the remainder of his term...

Rep 1998 (Appt.)
72 Merle G. Kearns
Merle G. Kearns
Merle Kearns is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives representing the 72nd House district and serving as Majority Leader in the 126th General Assembly. Prior to her stint in the Ohio House, Kearns was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1991 to 2000, representing the 10th Senate...

Rep 2000
73 William J. Hartnett
William J. Hartnett
Bill Hartnett is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, serving from 1998 to 2006.-External links:*http://www.house.state.oh.us/index.php?option=com_displaymembers&task=detail&district=58...

Dem 1998 (Appt.)
74 Steve Buehrer
Steve Buehrer
Stephen P. Buehrer is a former Republican member of the Ohio Senate who represented the 1st District, and was an unsuccessful candidate for U.S. Congress in the special election for Ohio's 5th congressional district to replace the late Paul Gillmor...

Rep >- 75 Jim Hoops
Jim Hoops
Jim Hoops is a Republican politician who formerly served in the Ohio General Assembly. As Henry County Auditor, Hoops opted to succeed Lynn Wachtmann, who was running for the Ohio Senate, and won his seat in 1998. He went on to win reelection in 2000, 2002 and in 2004.By 2006, Hoops was term...

Rep 1998
76 Mike Gilb
Mike Gilb
Mike Gilb is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 76th District from 2001-2006.-External links:*...

Rep 2000
77 Keith Faber
Keith Faber
Keith Lloyd Faber is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate who has represented the 12th District since his appointment in January 2007. He also serves as President pro tempore, the second highest post in the Senate and as Chairman of the Committee on Government Oversight and Reform...

Rep 2000
78 Derrick Seaver
Derrick Seaver
Derrick Seaver is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 78th District from 2001-2006.-External links:*...

Rep 2000
79 Diana Fessler
Diana Fessler
Diana Fessler is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 79th District from 2001 to 2008.-External links:**...

Rep 2000
80 Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern
Chris Redfern is the current chairman of the Ohio Democratic Party. He won election to the chairmanship of the Ohio Democratic Party in December, 2005 and reelection in 2008...

Dem 1999 (Appt.)
81 Jeff Wagner
Jeff Wagner (Ohio politician)
Jeff Wagner is a Republican politician who served in the Ohio House of Representatives from 2003 to 2011. In 2011, he expressed interest in an Ohio Senate seat vacated by Karen Gillmor, but never pursued appointment.-References:...

Rep 2002
82 Steve Reinhard
Steve Reinhard
Steve Reinhard is Ohio's former 82nd District Representative. He represented the Bucyrus, Ohio and Crawford County, Ohio area.With Senator Karen Gillmor resigning from her seat, Reinhard has been named as a possible successor.-See also:...

Rep 2000
83 Tony Core
Tony Core
Anthony Core, commonly called Tony Core, is an American politician from Ohio and a former Republican member of the Ohio General Assembly. A graduate of The Ohio State University, he is a lawyer from rural Rushsylvania in Logan County....

Rep 1999 (Appt.)
84 Chris Widener
Chris Widener
Chris Widener is a member of the Ohio Senate. Widener represents the 10th Senate District, which includes Madison, Clark and Greene counties. Before the Senate, he served three terms in the Ohio House of Representatives...

Rep 2002
85 John M. Schlichter
John M. Schlichter
John M. Schlichter is an American politician of the Republican party who held a seat in the Ohio House of Representatives. He is from Washington Court House, Ohio....

Rep 2002
86 David T. Daniels
David T. Daniels
David Daniels is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the Seventeenth District since 2011. Formerly, he served in the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 86th District from 2003 to 2010. He is serving as Chairman of the Senate Energy and Public Utilities...

Rep 2002
87 Clyde Evans
Clyde Evans
Clyde Evans is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, who represented the 87th District from 2003 to 2010. Term limited in 2010, he ran for the Ohio Senate, but lost the primary election to David T. Daniels.-External links:...

Rep 2002
88 Tom Niehaus
Tom Niehaus
Tom Niehaus is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate, representing the 14th District since 2005. Previously he was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2000 until 2004. Niehaus succeeded Ohio Senate President Doug White, who was prevented by Ohio's term limits law from running for...

Rep 2000
89 Todd Book
Todd Book
Todd Book is a former Democratic member of the Ohio House of Representatives who was first elected in 2002. He served the 89th House District, which includes all of Scioto County, the western half of Lawrence County and the eastern half of Adams County in Southern Ohio.Book was born and raised in...

Dem 2002
90 Thom Collier
Thom Collier
Thom Collier is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 90th District from 2000 to 2008. He made an unsuccessful bid for the Republican nomination for the 19th Senate District in 2010.-External links:*...

Rep 2000 (Appt.)
91 Larry Householder
Larry Householder
Larry Householder of Glenford, Ohio, is an American politician of the Republican party who served as speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2001 to 2005....

Rep 1996
92 Jimmy Stewart
Jimmy Stewart (Ohio politician)
Jimmy Stewart is a Republican politician who served in the Ohio General Assembly. He served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2003 to 2008, and in the Ohio Senate from 2009 to 2011....

Rep 2002
93 Nancy P. Hollister Rep 1999 (Appt.)
94 Jim Aslanides
Jim Aslanides
Jim Aslanides is a former Republican member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 94th District from 1999 to 2008.-External links:*...

Rep 1999 (Appt.)
95 John Domenick
John Domenick
John Domenick is a Democratic politician who formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives. A weatherman with the local CBS station, WTRF for over twenty five years, Domenick opted to seek the Democratic nomination for state representative in 2002 against incumbent Eileen Krupinski. With...

Dem 2002
96 Charlie Wilson
Charlie Wilson (Ohio politician)
Charles A. "Charlie" Wilson is the former U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Democratic Party. He previously served in the Ohio State Senate and the Ohio House of Representatives...

Dem 1996
97 Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs
Bob Gibbs is the U.S. Representative for . He is a member of the Republican Party.-Early life and education:Gibbs was born on June 14, 1954 in Peru, Indiana. His family moved to Cleveland in the 1960s, and Gibbs graduated from Bay Village Senior High School...

Rep 2002
98 Tim Grendell
Tim Grendell
Timothy J. Grendell is a Republican member of the Ohio Senate who has represented the 18th district since 2005. He is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary-Criminal Justice Committee...

Rep 2000
99 George Distel
George Distel
George Distel is a former member of the Ohio House of Representatives, representing the 99th District from 1999-2008. He currently is the Administrator of the Ohio Turnpike Commission....

Dem 1999 (Appt.)


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See also

  • Ohio House of Representatives membership, 126th General Assembly
    Ohio House of Representatives membership, 126th General Assembly
    The 126th Ohio General Assembly comprised the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. The Ohio House of Representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly. Every two years, all of the house seats come up for election. The 126th General Assembly was in session in 2005 and 2006...

  • Ohio House of Representatives membership, 125th General Assembly
    Ohio House of Representatives membership, 125th General Assembly
    The 125th General Assembly comprised the state legislature of the U.S. state of Ohio. The house of representatives is the lower house of the Ohio General Assembly. Every two years, all of the house seats come up for election. The 125th General Assembly was in session in 2003 and 2004...

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