Jeffrey McClain
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Jeff McClain is a Republican
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...

 member of 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....

 who has represented the 82nd District since 2009.

Ohio House of Representatives

When Representative 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:...

 was unable to run for another term due to term limits, McClain, along with Lois Fisher, sought the Republican nomination. McClain won the primary election with 60.72% of the votes. He won the general election with 53.63% of the vote. On January 5, 2009, he was sworn into his first term.

McClain was elected to a second term in 2010 unopposed. He is a member of the Finance and Appropriations Committee, the Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security Committee and the Ways and Means Committee. He is also a member of the Joint Council on Developmental Disabilities, and the Ohio Commission on Fatherhood.

With Senator Karen Gillmor
Karen Gillmor
Karen Gillmor is a Republican politician who served in the Ohio Senate, and who now serves on the Ohio Industrial Commission. She is the widow of former U.S. Congressman Paul Gillmor.-Life and career:...

 resigning from her seat, McClain had been named as a possible successor. However, the appointment went to David Burke.

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