Joseph "Joe" Roy Schomacker (born March 25, 1986) is an American politician and member of the

Minnesota House of Representatives The Minnesota House of Representatives is the lower house of the Legislature of the U.S. state of Minnesota. There are 134 members, twice as many as the Minnesota Senate. Floor sessions are held in the north wing of the State Capitol in Saint Pa ...

. A member of the

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, he represents District 22A, which includes all or portions of Cottonwood,

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, Pipestone, and

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counties in the southwestern part of the state. He is also an independent public relations consultant.

Education

Schomacker graduated from

Luverne Senior High School Luverne Senior High School is a high school located in Luverne, Minnesota Luverne () is a city in Rock County, Minnesota, United States, along the Rock River. The population was 4,946 at the 2020 census. It is one of four towns profiled in th ...

in Luverne, then went on to

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, earning his

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in public administration, speech communication and political science in 2008. He served as the university's student body president from 2007-2008. In 2010, he earned his M.P.S. online from

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, based in

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Minnesota House of Representatives

Schomacker was first elected to the Minnesota House in 2010, fending off a challenge by former Rep.

Ted Winter Theodore J. "Ted" Winter (born November 26, 1949) is a Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives from southwestern Minnesota. First elected in 1986 in the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Democr ...

, winning the seat being vacated by

Doug Magnus Douglas Rudy Magnus (born November 1950) is an American, Minnesota politician and a former member of the Minnesota Senate, who represented District 22, which includes all of Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone and Rock counties in ...

, who opted to run for the open Minnesota Senate seat being vacated by retiring Senator

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. He was re-elected in 2012 and 2014.

References

External links

Rep. Schomacker Web Page

Project Votesmart - Rep. Joe Schomacker Profile

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