Ray Janssen (born July 5, 1937 in

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) served as a

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state senator from Nickerson, Nebraska in the

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from 1993 to 2009 and as a grocer. __NOTOC__ Janssen graduated from Hooper Public School. He was also in the

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. He was formerly the president of both Nickerson and Logan View

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s and is currently a member of the Nickerson

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, and Hooper Commercial Club.

State legislature

Janssen was elected in 1992 to represent the 15th Nebraska legislative district. He was reelected in 1996, 2000, and 2004. He sat on the Revenue, Urban Affairs, and Building Maintenance committees and chaired the Revenue committee. In 2009, he was succeeded in the Legislature by his nephew,

Charlie Janssen Charlie Janssen (born January 15, 1971) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Republican Party, Jansen served in the Nebraska Legislature from 2009 to 2014; in 2014, he was elected Nebraska Auditor of Pub ...

, who was elected to the 15th district seat in 2008.

References

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