Freda Warfield is an American politician who served as a member of the

Kansas House of Representatives The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for craftin ...

, as the representative of the 58th district in

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, from 2019 to 2021. She was selected by Democratic Party precinct committee members on December 27, 2018, to succeed Democratic Rep. Vic Miller, who had been picked by precinct committee members to succeed Democratic Sen.

Laura Kelly Laura Jeanne Kelly (born January 24, 1950)"Laura Kelly,"
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, who was resigning from the

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after her election as

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. Warfield's election was to fill the two-year term Miller had won in the 2018 election. Warfield defeated former Rep. Ben Scott by a vote of 20–4 to succeed Miller in the House of Representatives. Warfield is a retired employee of the Kansas Department of Revenue. She did not seek reelection in 2020. 2019–2020 Kansas House of Representatives Committee assignments *Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget *Veterans and Military *Taxation

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Living people Democratic Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives 21st-century American women politicians Women state legislators in Kansas People from Topeka, Kansas Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature {{Kansas-politician-stub