{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Phil Lovas | image = Phil Lovas by Gage Skidmore.jpg | state_house = Arizona | district = 22nd<ref name="AL">{{cite web |url= http://www.azleg.gov/MembersPage.asp?Member_ID=58&Legislature=51 |title= Phil Lovas |publisher= Arizona State Legislature |location= Phoenix, Arizona |accessdate= December 23, 2013}}</ref> | term_start = January 14, 2013 | term_end = April 17, 2017 | predecessor = | successor = Ben Toma | alongside = | state_house3 = Arizona | district3 = 4th | term_start3 = February 21, 2012 | term_end3 = January 14, 2013 | predecessor3 = Judy Burges | successor3 = | alongside3 = Jack Harper | birth_date = | birth_place = Ohio | death_date = | death_place = | party = Republican | spouse = | children = | alma_mater = | profession = | website = {{URL|lovasforarizona.com}} }}

'''Phil Lovas''' (born c. 1968 in Ohio)<ref name="PVS">{{cite web |url= http://votesmart.org/candidate/biography/136108 |title= Phil Lovas' Biography |publisher= Project Vote Smart |accessdate= December 23, 2013}}</ref> is an American politician and formerly a Republican member of the Arizona House of Representatives representing District 22. Lovas served consecutively in the District 4 seat from his appointment by the Maricopa County Board of Supervisors February 21, 2012 until January 14, 2013, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Judy Burges to take the Arizona Senate District 4 seat.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://kjzz.org/content/1013/lovas-appointed-fill-house-vacancy |title= Lovas appointed to fill House vacancy |author= Macias, Al |date= February 21, 2012 |publisher= KJZZ |accessdate= December 23, 2013}}</ref>

Lovas served as the Arizona State Chairman of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's campaign.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.12news.com/news/politics/trump-picks-arizona-state-treasurer-for-top-job/282593209 |title=Trump picks Arizona state treasurer for top job |publisher=12 News |accessdate=September 16, 2016 |date=July 27, 2016 |author=Resnik, Brahm |archive-date=November 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161107084356/http://www.12news.com/news/politics/trump-picks-arizona-state-treasurer-for-top-job/282593209 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

In April 2017, Lovas became the Regional Advocate for the Small Business Administration's Office of Advocacy.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://yourwestvalley.com/news/government/phil-lovas-resigns-house-district-22-representative/|title = Daily Independent homepage &#124; Your Valley}}</ref> He also unsuccessfully ran in the special election to replace U.S. Representative Trent Franks.<ref>{{cite tweet|number=940986130060791808|user=PhilLovas|title=Today, I’m announcing my candidacy for the 8th CD seat. I’m running to improve the lives of West Valley citizens. I…<!-- full text of tweet that Twitter returned to the bot (excluding links) added by TweetCiteBot. This may be better truncated or may need expanding (TW limits responses to 140 characters) or case changes. --> |date=13 December 2017}}</ref>

==Education== Lovas earned his bachelor's degree in journalism and his master's degree in political science.

==Elections== * 2014 Lovas and Livingston were unopposed in the Republican primary and won reelection against Democrats Larry Woods and Bonnie Boyce-Wilson, Independent Fred Botha and Americans Elect candidate Suzie Easter with Lovas winning 42,409 votes.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://apps.azsos.gov/election/2014/General/Canvass2014GE.pdf|title= State of Arizona Official Canvass 2014 General Election November 4, 2014 |publisher= Secretary of State of Arizona |location= Phoenix, Arizona |page= 9 |accessdate= March 18, 2016}}</ref> * 2012 With redistricting, the legislative District 4 mostly became District 22, and with incumbent Republican Representative (and Former State Senator) Jack W Harper deciding to not run for re-election to the Legislature, Lovas ran in the three-way race against David Livingston and Jeanette Dubreil on August 28, 2012, Republican Primary, placing first with 16,727 votes,<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.azsos.gov/election/2012/Primary/Canvass.pdf |title= State of Arizona Official Canvass 2012 Primary Election August 28, 2012 |publisher= Secretary of State of Arizona |location= Phoenix, Arizona |page= 11 |accessdate= December 23, 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131112230133/http://www.azsos.gov/election/2012/Primary/Canvass.pdf |archivedate= November 12, 2013 }}</ref> and won the second seat in the November 6, 2012 General election with 58,700 votes above independent write-in candidate Pat White.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.azsos.gov/election/2012/General/Canvass2012GE.pdf |title= State of Arizona Official Canvass 2012 General Election November 6, 2012 |publisher= Secretary of State of Arizona |location= Phoenix, Arizona |page= 12 |accessdate= December 23, 2013 |url-status= dead |archiveurl= https://web.archive.org/web/20131112235642/http://www.azsos.gov/election/2012/General/Canvass2012GE.pdf |archivedate= November 12, 2013 }}</ref>

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==External links== * [http://www.azleg.gov/MembersPage.asp?Member_ID=58&Legislature=51 Official page] at the Arizona State Legislature * [http://lovasforarizona.com/ Campaign site] * {{CongLinks | congbio= | votesmart=136108 | fec= | congress= }}<!-- Links formerly displayed via the CongLinks template: * [http://ballotpedia.org/Phil_Lovas Biography] at Ballotpedia * [http://www.followthemoney.org/database/uniquecandidate.phtml?uc=1413887 Financial information (state office)] at the National Institute for Money in State Politics * -->

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