Keith Ripp (born November 13, 1961) is a

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politician. Ripp was born in

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and was raised in Lodi. He graduated from Lodi High School in 1980, and took farming courses from the

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. Ripp continues to run the family farm in northern

Dane County, Wisconsin Dane County is a county in the U.S. state of Wisconsin. As of the 2020 census, the population was 561,504, making it the second-most populous county in Wisconsin. The county seat is Madison, which is also the state capital. Dane County is the ...

. He is a former president of the Wisconsin Soybean Marketing Board and the Wisconsin Corn Growers Association. Ripp served as a supervisor for the Town of Dane from 2006 to 2009. He was elected to the

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in 2008. Ripp resigned from the Assembly on December 29, 2017, to become the assistant deputy secretary of the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection.

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Living people University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Agricultural and Life Sciences alumni 1961 births Politicians from Madison, Wisconsin 21st-century American politicians People from Lodi, Wisconsin People from Dane County, Wisconsin Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly {{Wisconsin-WIAssembly-Republican-1960s-stub