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Allen C. Schmidt is an American former politician who served in the
Kansas State Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members o ...
as a
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in 2011 and 2012. Schmidt grew up on a dairy farm near
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, and is a fifth-generation farmer. He attended the
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and received a master's in school psychology from Fort Hays State University before joining the U.S. Army and receiving a second master's from the U.S. Army War College. He spent 32 years in the Army Service Medical Corps, retiring as a colonel. In February 2011, Schmidt was appointed to the Kansas Senate to fill out the remaining term of Janis Lee, who had resigned upon being appointed to the Kansas Court of Tax Appeals. He chose not to stand for re-election in his own right, and in the 2012 elections the seat was taken by Republican Leslie Donovan. After leaving the Senate, Schmidt opened a
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on his family's farm in 2017. He was appointed to the
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in 2019, and his term there ended on June 30, 2022.


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Year of birth unknown Living people Kansas Board of Regents Democratic Party Kansas state senators Farmers from Kansas American viticulturists University of Kansas alumni Fort Hays State University alumni United States Army War College alumni United States Army colonels 21st-century American legislators Year of birth missing (living people) {{Kansas-politician-stub