Chuck Weber is an American politician who served in 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 ...

as a

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from 2016 to 2018. Weber worked as a TV journalist before entering politics. He was appointed to the seat left vacant by the resignation of Steve Brunk, taking office on January 11, 2016. He won a full term in his own right in the 2016 elections, running unopposed in the

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and taking 61% of the vote against

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Patty Beamer in November. In 2018, Weber initially announced a run for re-election; however, he withdrew from the race and resigned his seat to become a lobbyist. As of 2023, Weber works as the director of the Kansas Catholic Conference, an organization that "serves as the official voice of the

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in Kansas on matters of public policy".

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Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives 21st-century American politicians Politicians from Wichita, Kansas Catholics from Kansas {{Kansas-politician-stub