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Patricia Barbieri-Lightner (born December 15, 1957) 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 the 29th district from 1999 to 2004. She was originally elected in the November 1998 elections, taking office in January 1999, and was re-elected twice. In 2004, she declined to run for re-election to the House, and instead ran for a seat in the
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; she lost the Republican
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to
Kris Kobach Kris William Kobach ( ; born March 26, 1966) is an American lawyer and politician who is the Attorney General of Kansas. He previously served as the 31st Secretary of State of Kansas. A former Chairman of the Kansas Republican Party, Kobach came ...
with 12% of the vote to Kobach's 44%, after raising comparatively little money for the race.


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Living people 1957 births Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives Women state legislators in Kansas 20th-century American women politicians 20th-century American politicians 21st-century American women politicians 21st-century American politicians Politicians from Overland Park, Kansas {{Kansas-politician-stub