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About Ray Vandeveer
- Ray Vandeveer (born July 8, 1953) is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota Senate representing District 52, which included portions of Anoka and Washington counties in the northeastern Twin Cities metropolitan area.
- A Republican, he was first elected to the Senate in 2006, and was reelected in 2010.Before being elected to the Senate, Vandeveer was a member of the Minnesota House of Representatives, representing District 52A and, before the 2002 redistricting, the old District 51B.
- He was first elected to the House in a January 1998 special election after Representative Doug Swenson was appointed a district judge by Governor Arne Carlson.
- He was reelected that November and again in 2000, 2002 and 2004.
- He chaired the House Taxes Subcommittee for the Property and Local Tax Division during the 2005-06 legislative session.Vandeveer was chair of the Senate Local Government and Elections Committee, and was also a member of the Senate Commerce and Consumer Protection and the Senate Energy, Utilities and Telecommunications committees.
- His special legislative concerns included taxes, education, transportation, and crime prevention.Vandeveer is a real estate appraiser by profession.
- He graduated from Columbia Heights High School in Columbia Heights, then went on to St.
- Cloud State University in St.
- Cloud, where he earned a B.S.
- in marketing in 1975.
- He is a former member of the Forest Lake Planning Commission and of the Mounds View Charter Commission.
- He is a member of the Greater Minneapolis Area Board of Realtors.
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