Chuck Schmidt is an American politician who served in the

Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita. Kansas is a landlocke ...

as a Democrat from the 88th district during 2021 and 2022. In 2021,

Elizabeth Bishop Elizabeth Bishop (February 8, 1911 – October 6, 1979) was an American poet and short-story writer. She was Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1949 to 1950, the Pulitzer Prize winner for Poetry in 1956, the National Book Awar ...

resigned her seat, and Schmidt was appointed to replace her. He ran in his own right in the 2022 election, facing no opposition in the

primary election Primary elections, or direct primary are a voting process by which voters can indicate their preference for their party's candidate, or a candidate in general, in an upcoming general election, local election, or by-election. Depending on the ...

, but lost the general election by a 51% to 49% margin to

Republican Republican can refer to: Political ideology * An advocate of a republic, a type of government that is not a monarchy or dictatorship, and is usually associated with the rule of law. ** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or again ...

Sandy Pickert.

References

Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Democratic Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives 21st-century American legislators Politicians from Wichita, Kansas {{Kansas-politician-stub