1. An obstetrician, Marshall was first elected to Congress in 2016, defeating incumbent Tim Huelskamp in the Republican primary for.
40 Facts About Roger Marshall
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Roger Marshall attended Butler Community College before attending Kansas State University, where he received a bachelor's degree in biochemistry and was a member of Beta Theta Pi.
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Roger Marshall received his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Kansas.
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Roger Marshall completed a residency in obstetrics and gynecology at Bayfront Medical Center in St Petersburg, Florida.
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Roger Marshall has served as chairman of the board of Great Bend Regional Hospital and vice president of the Farmers Bank and Trust, and has been a district governor of Rotary International.
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Roger Marshall served seven years in the United States Army Reserve, reaching the rank of captain.
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Roger Marshall ran against incumbent Tim Huelskamp in the Republican Party primary election for Kansas's 1st congressional district in the United States House of Representatives.
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Roger Marshall had the support of many of Kansas's agricultural groups, who were angry that Huelskamp lost his seat on the House Agriculture Committee, the first time in a century that no Kansan was on that panel.
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Roger Marshall ultimately pleaded no contest to a reckless driving misdemeanor and settled the neighbor's civil suit.
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Roger Marshall was endorsed by the United States Chamber of Commerce, the Kansas Livestock Association, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and the Kansas Farm Bureau, an affiliate of the American Farm Bureau Federation.
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Roger Marshall represented a district that had long been nicknamed "the Big First" because it covered all or part of 63 counties in central and western Kansas, more than half the state's land mass.
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Roger Marshall was one of a group of Republicans that followed Gaetz to the hearing room.
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In September 2019, Roger Marshall announced he would give up his House seat to run for the Senate seat being vacated by four-term incumbent Pat Roberts.
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Senate Republican leaders, fearing that Kobach's nomination would endanger their majority in the Senate, urged Trump to endorse Roger Marshall; Trump did not.
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The National Republican Senatorial Committee launched a major voter contact effort on Roger Marshall's behalf making 2.3 million unique voter contacts via text and robocalls in the week before the election.
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Roger Marshall lost by a majority in Wyandotte County, which contains Kansas City, and by pluralities in most counties in eastern Kansas.
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Roger Marshall succeeded Roberts, who represented the 1st from 1981 to 1997; Kansas's senior senator, Jerry Moran, represented the district from 1997 to 2011.
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In October 2021, Business Insider reported that Roger Marshall had violated the Stop Trading on Congressional Knowledge Act of 2012, a federal transparency and conflict-of-interest law, by disclosing up to 17 months late stock purchases made by one of his dependent children.
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In 2022, shortly after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v Wade in the Dobbs case, Marshall endorsed exceptions to abortion bans that would permit abortion to preserve the mother's life.
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In December 2020, Marshall was one of 126 House Republicans to sign an amicus brief in support of Texas v Pennsylvania, a lawsuit filed at the United States Supreme Court contesting the results of the 2020 presidential election, in which Joe Biden defeated Trump.
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Roger Marshall disputed the results of the 2020 presidential election, claiming that in "several states" "governors, secretaries of states and activist courts" usurped legislatures to create voting rules.
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Roger Marshall was participating in the certification of the Electoral College count when Trump supporters stormed the United States Capitol.
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Roger Marshall supported the objections to Arizona's and Pennsylvania's electoral votes.
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The McPherson Sentinel editorial board wrote that Roger Marshall "should be ashamed" of his decision to support false claims of voter fraud and trying to overturn the election.
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On May 28,2021, Roger Marshall voted against creating an independent commission to investigate the 2021 United States Capitol attack.
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Roger Marshall has an "F" rating from the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws for his voting history regarding cannabis-related causes.
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Roger Marshall has appeared at indoor campaign events without a face mask before maskless crowds who did not observe social distancing.
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Roger Marshall said he himself used the drug to proactively guard against the virus.
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Roger Marshall supported Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the Paris climate accord.
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Roger Marshall was one of six Republican senators to vote against expanding the COVID-19 Hate Crimes Act, which would allow the US Justice Department to review hate crimes related to COVID-19 and establish an online database.
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Roger Marshall supports repealing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
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Roger Marshall voted for the American Health Care Act of 2017, which would have repealed and replaced the ACA.
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Roger Marshall, who represents a rural state, supports farm subsidies, such as federal crop insurance.
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In December 2017, Roger Marshall voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.
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Roger Marshall was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023.
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Roger Marshall attempted to persuade the Senate to provide aid to Israel alone, strongly opposing aid to Ukraine.
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Roger Marshall again opposed aid to Ukraine in early 2025.
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Roger Marshall supported Trump's Executive Order 13769, which barred citizens of seven Muslim-majority nations from entering the United States.
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On January 31,2018, Roger Marshall was a passenger on a chartered Amtrak train involved in the 2018 Crozet, Virginia, train crash.
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Roger Marshall administered first aid and CPR to the injured.