24 Facts About Ron Estes

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Ronald Gene Estes is an American politician, engineer, and farmer who has been the US representative for since April 2017.

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Ron Estes began his career as a consultant and executive in various manufacturing and service industries.

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Ron Estes was elected treasurer of Sedgwick County in 2004 and reelected in 2008.

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Ron Estes was elected Kansas State Treasurer in 2010 and reelected in 2014.

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Ron Estes was born in Topeka, Kansas, and is a fifth-generation Kansan.

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Ron Estes earned a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering and a Master of Business Administration from Tennessee Technological University, where he was selected for membership in Omicron Delta Kappa - The National Leadership Honor Society.

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Ron Estes was elected treasurer of Sedgwick County, Kansas, home to Wichita, in 2004, and reelected in 2008.

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Ron Estes ran for Kansas State Treasurer in 2010 against incumbent Democrat Dennis McKinney.

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Ron Estes was the first statewide elected official from Wichita in two decades.

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Ron Estes made it a priority to tell Kansans about unclaimed money, such as funds from forgotten bank accounts.

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In 2016, Ron Estes said his office had returned $100 million in unclaimed property since 2010.

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Ron Estes served in the Electoral College and cast his electoral vote for Donald Trump.

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Ron Estes won with 66 of 126 votes in a special nominating convention held at Friends University.

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Ron Estes was endorsed by many Republicans, including President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence, Senator Ted Cruz, House Speaker Paul Ryan, and Governor Sam Brownback.

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Ron Estes was endorsed by the editorial board of The Wichita Eagle.

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The National Republican Congressional Committee contributed $92,000, in part for "inflammatory and false" advertisements supporting Ron Estes, which characterized Thompson as an advocate of taxpayer-funded, late-term abortions, and as an advocate for gender-selection abortion.

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In December 2017, Ron Estes voted for the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017.

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Ron Estes says the tax-filing process had been simplified, even though the process remains the same.

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In July 2017, Ron Estes received national attention for interrupting Representative Kathleen Rice mid-sentence while she asked a question at a Homeland Security subcommittee hearing.

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Ron Estes explained that he was simply trying to follow committee rules after Rice's time was up.

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Ron Estes calls himself "proudly pro-life" and supports defunding Planned Parenthood.

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In December 2020, Estes was one of 126 Republican members of the House of Representatives 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 incumbent Donald Trump.

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Ron Estes's family operates a farm in Osage County, Kansas.

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Susan Ron Estes is a member of the Kansas House of Representatives.