Leslie Donovan | |
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Member of the
Kansas Senate from the 27th district | |
In office January 8, 1997 – January 10, 2017 | |
Preceded by | Michael Terry Harris |
Succeeded by | Gene Suellentrop |
Personal details | |
Born | [1] Wray, Colorado, U.S. | May 5, 1936
Political party | Republican |
Spouse | Mary |
Children | 3 |
Residence | Wichita, Kansas |
Profession | auto dealer |
Leslie D. "Les" Donovan, Sr. (May 5, 1936) was a Republican member of the Kansas Senate, representing the 27th district from 1997 to 2017. He was the Assistant Majority Leader in 2001 and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 2000. He was a Kansas Representative from 1992 to 1997.
He is an auto dealer from Wichita.
Donovan served on these legislative committees: [2]
Legislation sponsored or co-sponsored by Donovan includes: [3]
Some of the top contributors to Les Donovan's 2008 campaign, according to the National Institute on Money in State Politics: [7]
Financial, insurance and real estate companies were his largest donor group.
Donovan was unopposed in the 2012 Republican primary. He defeated Democratic nominee Diana Cubbage in the general election, by a margin of 20,773 to 10,922 — 65.5 percent to 34.5 percent. In their primaries, Donovan had won 7,455 votes; Cubbage 1,044 votes.
Cubbage, a Wichita educator, had been unopposed in the 2012 Democratic Primary. [8] [9] She had been endorsed by the Kansas Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers-Kansas and the AFL-CIO. [10]