Carl Holmes (October 19, 1940) is an American politician, and a
Republican former 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 ...
, who represented the 125th district from 1985 to 2013.
Prior to his election to the House, Holmes served as mayor of the city of Plains from 1982 to 1989. Since 1962 he has worked as a land manager of Holmes Farms.
Holmes received his BBA from
Colorado State University
Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...
.
Holmes was defeated in the August 7, 2012, Republican Primary by
Reid Petty, losing by only 9 votes, 904–895. Petty is a member of the school board in Liberal and is the Seward County Republican Chairman.
Committee membership
*Energy and Utilities (Chair)
*Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget
*Joint Committee on Administrative Rules and Regulations (Chair)
*Joint Committee on Energy and Environmental Policy (Vice-Chair)
Major donors
The top 5 donors to Holmes's 2008 campaign:
Follow the Money - 2008 Campaign Contributions
Retrieved July 1, 2009.
*1. Pioneer Communications - $1,000
*2. Westar Energy - $1,000
*3. Kansas Contractors Assoc - $1,000
*4. AT&T - $1,000
*5. Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation - $750
References
External links
Kansas Legislature - Carl HolmesProject Vote Smart profileKansas Votes profile
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*Campaign contributions
1996199820002002200420062008Interview of Carl Holmes
September 3, 2020, Kansas Oral History Project
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Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Living people
1940 births
Colorado State University alumni
20th-century American politicians
21st-century American politicians
People from Liberal, Kansas