Donald L. Dahl (March 19, 1945 – April 18, 2014) was an American politician. Born in

Hillsboro, Kansas Hillsboro is a city in Marion County, Kansas, United States. Hillsboro was named after John Gillespie Hill, who homesteaded in the area in 1871.Hillsboro Kansas, The City on the Prairie; Wiebe, Raymond F; 1985. As of the 2020 census, the pop ...

, Dahl served in the

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and then received his bachelor's degree from Tabor College. He 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 1997 to 2008 and was speaker pro tem. In December 2013, Dahl was appointed to the

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. He died while piloting an

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near Hillsboro, Kansas.Former Kansas House member Dahl dies in ultralight plane crash
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