Robert Schuler (June 15, 1943 – June 19, 2009) was a

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politician who formerly served in the

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. Schuler first entered politics in the late 1970s as a member of the Deer Park City Council and also spent four years as a Sycamore Township trustee from 1988 to 1992. Initially running for the

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in 1992, he went on to win reelection in 1994, 1996, and 1998. With

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in effect, Schuler was ineligible to run for a fifth term in 2000, and was succeeded by

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. Although term-limited from the House, Schuler soon returned to the legislature as a member of the

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. With

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term-limited in 2002, Schuler sought his seat. He went on to win, and was reelected in 2006. In his memoir ''

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'',

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recalls that he worked for Schuler while he was in college. Suffering from

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while in the Senate, Schuler died in June 2009, with a year and a half left in his term.

Shannon Jones Shannon Jones is an American politician from the state of Ohio. A Republican, she was a member of the Ohio House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009 and a member of the Ohio Senate (representing the 7th District) from 2009 to 2016. She is cur ...

was appointed by senate Republicans to fill out the remainder of his term.S. R. No. 93-Senator Niehaus: Relative to the appointment of Shannon Jones to fill the vacancy in the membership of the Senate for the 7th Senatorial District
Ohio Senate Journal'' (August 11, 2019).

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