Steven C. Mentzer (born October 24, 1956) is a Republican member of the

Pennsylvania House of Representatives The Pennsylvania House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Pennsylvania General Assembly, the legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. There are 203 members, elected for two-year terms from single member districts. It ...

. He has represented the 97th District since 2013. Mentzer graduated from Manheim Township High School. He attended but did not graduate from

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. Mentzer spent several decades working in finance, holding an accounting position at

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and later serving as a financial advisor at

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. A long time volunteer to humanitarian organizations, in 2007, Mentzer founded a Central American Relief Efforts, a small nonprofit organization. Mentzer began his political career in 2009 when he won, unopposed, the race for Manheim Township Treasurer. During his term as treasurer he ran for the state house position in 2012 after incumbent John C. Bear dropped out after winning the Republican primary, and won unopposed in the general election. He has successfully run for re-election in the subsequent four general elections. Mentzer is currently a member of the Aging & Older Adult Services, Insurance, Professional Licensure, and Tourism & Recreational Development committees.

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Living people Republican Party members of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1956 births 21st-century members of the Pennsylvania General Assembly {{Pennsylvania-PARepresentative-stub