1. Barbara Goolsbee Bollier was born on January 13,1958 and is an American physician and politician.
13 Facts About Barbara Bollier
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Barbara Bollier was the Democratic nominee in the 2020 United States Senate election in Kansas, losing in the general election to Republican congressman Roger Marshall.
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Barbara Bollier grew up in Fairway, Kansas, and Mission Hills, Kansas.
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Barbara Bollier then began to volunteer with the Center for Practical Bioethics and became active with the Shawnee Mission Education Foundation Board.
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From 2010 to 2012 Barbara Bollier represented the 25th district as a Republican in the Kansas House of Representatives.
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Barbara Bollier represented the 21st House district from 2013 to 2017.
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Barbara Bollier did not have a Republican primary challenger in 2010 or 2012.
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In May 2016, Barbara Bollier ran for the Kansas Senate 7th district, after state Senator Kay Wolf announced that she was retiring.
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Barbara Bollier won the seat by defeating Democrat Megan England, with 22,439 votes to 18,884 votes.
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Barbara Bollier was one of three Kansas legislators to switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party in December 2018; the other two were state Representative Stephanie Clayton and state Senator Dinah Sykes.
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On October 16,2019, Barbara Bollier announced that she would run in the 2020 election for the United States Senate seat being vacated by the retiring Pat Roberts.
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Barbara Bollier's departure left Bollier as the party's clear frontrunner in the primary.
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Barbara Bollier was endorsed by Nancy Kassebaum, a Republican former US senator.