Current Position: US Representative of OH 9th District since 1983
Affiliation: Democrat
Other Positions: Ranking Member, Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development – House Appropriations
District: northwestern part of the state, bordering Michigan, Indiana, and Ontario, Canada (via Lake Erie), and includes all of Defiance, Williams, Fulton, Lucas, Ottawa, Sandusky, and Erie counties, and a portion of northern Wood County.
Upcoming Election: Kaptur kept her seat in the 2024 election cycle.
Kaptur is the longest-serving woman in congressional history.
She did doctoral studies in urban planning development finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1981. Kaptur served on the Toledo-Lucas County Plan Commissions from 1969 to 1975. She was director of planning for the National Center for Urban Ethnic Affairs (1975–1977), founded by Geno Baroni. She later served as a domestic policy advisor during President Jimmy Carter’s administration.
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