Stan Blake (born November 8, 1954) is an American
railroad conductor and politician, and a former
Wyoming
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state legislator. A member of the
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, Blake represented the
39th district in the
Wyoming House of Representatives
The Wyoming House of Representatives is the lower house of the Wyoming State Legislature. There are 60 Representatives in the House, representing an equal number of single-member constituent districts across the state, each with a population ...
from 2007 to 2021. In 2020, he was defeated by fellow Union Pacific employee and Green River resident
Marshall Burt
Marshall A. Burt (born May 6, 1976) is an American politician who served in the Wyoming House of Representatives. A member of the Libertarian Party, Burt represented the 39th district from 2021 to 2023.
Burt is the first Libertarian candidate ...
, a
Libertarian
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.
Blake is employed by the
Union Pacific
The Union Pacific Railroad , legally Union Pacific Railroad Company and often called simply Union Pacific, is a freight-hauling railroad that operates 8,300 locomotives over routes in 23 U.S. states west of Chicago and New Orleans. Union Pac ...
Railroad and lives in
Green River, Wyoming
Green River is a city in and the county seat of Sweetwater County, Wyoming, United States, in the southwestern part of the state. The population was 12,515 at the 2010 census.
History
The townsite of Green River, Dakota Territory was platte ...
, with his wife, Terri June Blake.
References
External links
Wyoming State Legislature - Representative Stan Blake''official WY House website''
Project Vote Smart - Representative Stan Blake (WY)profile
*''Follow the Money'' - Stan Blake
2006campaign contributions
Democratic Party members of the Wyoming House of Representatives
1954 births
Living people
21st-century American politicians
Conductor (rail)
People from Green River, Wyoming
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