Tom Takubo is a
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member of the
West Virginia Senate
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,
representing the
17th district since January 14, 2015. Takubo also serves as Majority Leader of the West Virginia Senate, succeeding
Ryan Ferns
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who was defeated in the
2018 West Virginia Senate election
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Takubo's mother is from
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and his biological father was from Japan. Takubo's parents divorced when he was a child, and his mother remarried.
He attended
Marshall University
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and received his D.O. from the
West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
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. He is a business owner and serves on the medical faculty for
West Virginia University
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. Takubo has three children. He lives in the Southridge area of
South Charleston.
Election results
2018: Takubo ran for re-election in 2018 and was unopposed in the May Republican primary. Takubo faced Terrell Ellis, a longtime
Kanawha County
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community and economic developer, in the
November general election.
Despite being outspent in the race,
Takubo beat Ellis by a slim 52.5%-47.5% margin to win a second term.
2014: After 16 years in the Senate, Democratic Senator and small business owner
Brooks McCabe
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retired, leaving an open seat in District 17. Takubo, a doctor and small business owner, ran for the seat and faced Lance Wheeler in the Republican primary. Takubo beat Wheeler by a 68%-32% margin to advance to the November general election, where he faced Democratic nominee Delegate and Assistant Majority Whip
Doug Skaff
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and Mountain Party nominee
Jesse Johnson. Takubo beat Skaff and Johnson as part of a Republican wave election that saw Republicans take both chambers of the West Virginia Legislature for the first time in eight decades.
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1971 births
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Living people
Marshall University alumni
People from South Charleston, West Virginia
Physicians from West Virginia
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West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine alumni
Republican Party West Virginia state senators
American politicians of Japanese descent
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