Patricia Secrest is a former American Republican politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives. Born in

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, she attended

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and

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. In 2004, she ran to become lieutenant governor of Missouri, but she was defeated in the Republican primary by

Peter Kinder Peter Dickson Kinder (born May 12, 1954) is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2017. He was appointed as a co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority in August 2017, serving in ...

. Secrest grew up in southwest Missouri and previously worked as a public school teacher and small business owner.

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