Arthur Louis Schmidt (May 1, 1927 - Sep 2, 2018) was an American politician in the state of

Kentucky Kentucky (, ), officially the Commonwealth of Kentucky, is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern region of the United States. It borders Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio to the north, West Virginia to the ...

. He served in the

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and in the

Kentucky House of Representatives The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form a ...

. He was a member of the Republican party. First elected to the house in 1963, he was defeated for reelection in 1965 by Democrat Henry "Bud" Overman. Schmidt ran against Overman again in 1967, defeating him. Schmidt was elected to the senate in 1983 after incumbent

Jim Bunning James Paul David Bunning (October 23, 1931 – May 26, 2017) was an American professional baseball pitcher and politician from Kentucky who served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representati ...

retired to run for governor. He did not seek reelection in 1992. He died on Sep 2, 2018 at the age of 91.

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