Chris King is a Democratic politician, who represented Pennsylvania's 142nd Representative District in the

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from 2007 to 2008. King grew up in Middletown Township, Bucks County. King is a graduate of

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and

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. In

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, King entered the race for state representative only three months before the general election, as a late replacement for the Democratic candidate who withdrew. Against incumbent Matt Wright, King took 41% of the vote in the loss. In

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, King made a second run at the state house. In the

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, he defeated Democrat Larry Lefkowitz with more than two-thirds of the total vote. This time, with many incumbents hobbled by the fallout of the 2005 legislative pay raise, King defeated Wright, taking 52.5% of the vote. In

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, he was defeated for re-election by

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Frank Farry.

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