# Ray Janssen

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{{Short description|American politician (born 1937)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name              = Ray Janssen
| state_legislature = Nebraska
| district          = 15th
| term_start        = 1993
| term_end          = January 2009
| predecessor       = Lowell Johnson
| successor1        = [Charlie Janssen](/source/Charlie_Janssen)
| birth_date        = {{birth date and age|1937|7|5}}
| birth_place       = [Hooper](/source/Hooper%2C_Nebraska), [Nebraska](/source/Nebraska), [U.S.](/source/United_States)
| death_date        =
| death_place       = 
| relations         = [Charlie Janssen](/source/Charlie_Janssen) (nephew)
| party             = [Democratic](/source/Democratic_Party_(United_States))
| education         = 
| occupation        = Grocer
| spouse            = Nancy Janssen
| children          = 3 
}}

'''Ray Janssen''' (born July 5, 1937 in [Hooper, Nebraska](/source/Hooper%2C_Nebraska)) served as a [Nebraska](/source/Nebraska) state senator from [Nickerson, Nebraska](/source/Nickerson%2C_Nebraska) in the [Nebraska Legislature](/source/Nebraska_Legislature) from 1993 to 2009 and as a grocer.<ref name=bio>{{cite web | title=Nebraska Unicameral Legislature | work=Sen. Ray Janssen | url=http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/senators/district15.htm | accessdate=March 15, 2006 | url-status=dead | archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060219195111/http://www.unicam.state.ne.us/senators/district15.htm | archivedate=February 19, 2006 }}</ref> __NOTOC__

Janssen graduated from Hooper Public School. He was also in the [U.S. Army](/source/U.S._Army). He was formerly the president of both Nickerson and Logan View [school board](/source/school_board)s and is currently a member of the Nickerson [volunteer fire department](/source/volunteer_fire_department), [Lions Club](/source/Lions_Club), and Hooper Commercial Club.<ref name=bio />

==State legislature==
Janssen was elected in 1992 to represent the 15th Nebraska legislative district. He was reelected in 1996, 2000, and 2004. He sat on the Revenue, Urban Affairs, and Building Maintenance committees and chaired the Revenue committee.<ref name=bio /> In 2009, he was succeeded in the Legislature by his nephew, [Charlie Janssen](/source/Charlie_Janssen), who was elected to the 15th district seat in 2008.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10479615 |title=Omaha.com Elections Section |access-date=February 28, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210155737/http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835 |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

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Category:1937 births
Category:Living people
Category:Democratic Party Nebraska state senators
Category:People from Hooper, Nebraska
Category:21st-century members of the Nebraska Legislature

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