Jerry W. Krupinski
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Jerry Krupinski is a Democratic
Ohio Democratic Party
The Ohio Democratic Party is the Ohio affiliate to the United States Democratic Party. Former Ohio House Minority Leader Chris Redfern is the Ohio Democratic Party chairman. Redfern was elected to office in December 2005...

 politician who formerly served in 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....

. A native of Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville, Ohio
Steubenville is a city located along the Ohio River in Jefferson County, Ohio on the Ohio-West Virginia border in the United States. It is the political county seat of Jefferson County. It is also a principal city of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area...

, Krupinski initially was elected to the Ohio House following the retirement of longtime Representative Arthur Bowers
Arthur Bowers
Arthur Bowers is a Democratic politician who formerly served in the Ohio House of Representatives. A Steubenville, Ohio native, Bowers initially won election to a seat in the Ohio House in 1962, when apportionment was still chosen at-large...

 in 1986.

By 1990, he was serving as the chairman of the House Public Utilities Committee, a capacity he would serve in until Democrats lost the majority in 1994.

With term limits enacted in 1992, Krupinski was unable to run for another term in 2000. However, his wife, Eileen Krupinski, entered the race to succeed him, and ultimately won. In all Krupinski served fourteen years, or seven full terms, as a state representative.

In 2004, Krupinski was mentioned as a potential successor to term limited Senator Greg DiDonato
Greg DiDonato
Gregory L. DiDonato of Dennison, Ohio, is an American politician of the Democratic party. While still in high school, DiDonato was elected to the village council of Dennison, Ohio. At age 21, he was elected mayor of the Village of Dennison. He was re-elected mayor in 1987. While in college, he...

, He entered a primary race for the seat, but ultimately lost to 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...

, who would go on to win the general election. He also ran against 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...

 for his former Ohio House seat in 2008, however lost that primary also.

He has since remained retired in the Steubenville area.
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