Duane Stark is an American politician. A member of the
Republican Party
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from
southern Oregon
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, he was elected to succeed his party's
2014 gubernatorial nominee,
Dennis Richardson, in the
Oregon House of Representatives
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from District 4. He took office in January 2015 as one of two new state representatives from
Grants Pass
Grants Pass is the county seat of Josephine County, Oregon, United States. The city is located on Interstate 5, northwest of Medford, along the Rogue River. The population was 39,189 at the 2020 census.
History
Early Hudson's Bay Company hunt ...
, together with
Carl Wilson
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.
Personal life
Stark lives in Grants Pass with his wife Dusti and their five children.
[ He holds degrees from the ]University of Oregon
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and Multnomah University
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. He is a pastor at River Valley Church in Grants Pass. He also has a background in nonprofit work.
References
External links
Campaign website
Legislative website
Living people
Republican Party members of the Oregon House of Representatives
Oregon clergy
Multnomah University alumni
University of Oregon alumni
Year of birth missing (living people)
People from Grants Pass, Oregon
21st-century American politicians
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