13 Facts About Josh Svaty

Joshua Svaty is an American politician, farmer, and businessman from Kansas.

Josh Svaty announced his bid for the 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election as a Democrat on May 16,2017.

In 2002, at the age of 22, Svaty was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and served until he was appointed secretary of the Kansas Department of Agriculture by Governor Mark Parkinson on July 14,2009.

Josh Svaty received his undergraduate degree from Sterling College, a small liberal arts college in Sterling, Kansas.

Josh Svaty later attended Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, partly during his term in the Kansas House of Representatives.

Since announcing he was running for Governor of Kansas in May 2017, Josh Svaty visited all 105 Kansas counties as part of his campaign trail, traveling over 16,701 miles and counting.

In May 2018, Josh Svaty announced his running mate for lieutenant governor to be Katrina Lewison, a Manhattan-Ogden USD 383 Board of Education member and former Blackhawk helicopter pilot.

Josh Svaty was first elected to the Kansas House of Representatives at the age of 22.

Josh Svaty started his term on January 8,2003 as a representative of the 108th district, which consisted of Ellsworth County, rural Saline County, parts of south Salina, and Solomon in Dickinson County.

Josh Svaty was re-elected to his House seat three times.

Josh Svaty served as senior advisor to the regional administrator for the Environmental Protection Agency's Region 7 for more than two years, following his time as the Secretary of Agriculture.

Josh Svaty served as the vice president of The Land Institute, a science-based research organization based in Saline County that is working on developing perennial grain crops, before he returned to farming in Ellsworth County.

Josh Svaty left The Land Institute in 2015 to focus fully on Free State Farms.