David K. Deets is an American politician and doctor who served as a
Republican member of the
Illinois House of Representatives
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from March 1992 to January 1993.
Illinois House of Representatives
In March 1992, he was appointed to succeed the late
Myron Olson in the Illinois House of Representatives. He was on the board of directors for a medical arts clinic at the time of his appointment and the only practicing physician in the General Assembly. He ran for election in the 73rd district, a staunchly Republican district which included all or parts of
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Whiteside. He lost by 378 votes to Democratic attorney and former Whiteside County Board member
Pennie Von Bergen Wessels.
Post-legislative career
In 2016, he was a member of the Lee County Tuberculosis Sanatorium Board.
References
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Living people
Republican Party members of the Illinois House of Representatives
People from Dixon, Illinois
Physicians from Illinois
Year of birth missing (living people)
20th-century members of the Illinois General Assembly