17 Facts About Tim Huelskamp

Timothy Alan Huelskamp is an American politician who was the US representative for from 2011 to 2017.

Tim Huelskamp was succeeded by Roger Marshall, who defeated him in the 2016 Republican primary.

Tim Huelskamp was born on November 11,1968, and raised on the Tim Huelskamp family farm in Fowler, south of Dodge City.

Tim Huelskamp attended elementary and high school in Fowler, where he was a Farm Bureau Youth Leader, a member of St Anthony's Parish, and active in both 4-H and Future Farmers of America.

In 1996, Tim Huelskamp challenged Republican incumbent state senator Marian Reynolds in the primary and won by a landslide margin, taking 62 percent of the vote to Reynolds's 38 percent.

Tim Huelskamp previously served on the state's Ways and Means Committee but was removed due to clashes with colleagues and with the Committee's leadership.

Tim Huelskamp finished first in the six-candidate primary field with 34.8 percent of the vote, all but assuring that he would be the district's next representative.

Tim Huelskamp was endorsed by the Club for Growth, Mike Huckabee, Conservative Leadership PAC, Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee, Ron Paul and Ken Blackwell.

Tim Huelskamp instantly became a statewide political figure due to the vast size of the 1st.

Unlike the previous election, Tim Huelskamp was challenged by a Republican, Alan LaPolice, in the primary.

Tim Huelskamp failed to receive the endorsement of the Farm Bureau and the Kansas Livestock Association.

Tim Huelskamp thus became only the second person to represent the "Big First" since it assumed its current configuration in 1963 to not go on to represent Kansas in the United States Senate.

Tim Huelskamp accused Geithner and the entire Obama administration of failing to correct the US's debt crisis, which he believed would lead the country down the same path.

Tim Huelskamp then went on The Steve Deace Show, a conservative radio program, to denounce the Supreme Court Justices.

On January 3,2013, Tim Huelskamp appeared to be counting votes as part of an effort to unseat House Speaker John Boehner when the 113th Congress convened.

From June 2017 to June 2019, Tim Huelskamp served as the president of the Heartland Institute, an Illinois-based conservative think tank.

Tim Huelskamp's PAC was responsible for sending misleading texts the day before the 2022 Kansas Primary, indicating that a Yes vote protected abortion choice, although the reverse was true.