Jeff Colyer
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| 49th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas | |
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Assumed office January 10, 2011 |
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| Governor | Sam Brownback |
| Preceded by | Troy Findley |
| Member of the Kansas Senate from the 37th district |
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In office January 12, 2009 – January 10, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Dennis M. Wilson |
| Succeeded by | Raymond Merrick |
| Member of the Kansas House of Representatives from the 48th district |
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In office January 8, 2007 – January 12, 2009 |
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| Preceded by | Eric Carter |
| Succeeded by | Marvin Kleeb |
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Jeffrey William Colyer June 3, 1960 Hays, Kansas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Ruth Gutierrez |
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Georgetown University (BS) Clare Hall, Cambridge (MA) University of Kansas, Kansas City (MD) |
Jeffrey William "Jeff" Colyer (born June 3, 1960) is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he previously served as a member of the Kansas Senate (2009–2011) and of the Kansas House of Representatives (2007–2009). Dr. Colyer specializes in plastic surgery. Governor Sam Brownback is being considered by Donald Trump to be U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. for Food and Agriculture. His departure would elevate Colyer to become Governor.
A fifth-generation Kansan, Jeff Colyer was raised in Hays, where his father worked as a dentist. He graduated from Thomas More Prep High School before enrolling at Georgetown University, where he earned undergraduate degrees in economics and pre-med in 1981. After receiving a Master's degree in International Relations from Clare Hall, Cambridge in 1982, he obtained his Doctor of Medicine degree from the University of Kansas in 1986.
Colyer had residency training in general surgery at the Washington Hospital Center (1986–1988, 1989–1991); in plastic surgery at the University of Missouri–Kansas City (1991–1993); and in craniofacial/pediatric plastic surgery at the International Craniofacial Institute in Dallas, Texas (1993–1994). In 1988, during his residency at the Washington Hospital Center, he was named a White House Fellow and served in the Executive Office of the President and Agency for International Development under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. He is one of only three Kansans to be named a White House Fellow since the program was started by President Lyndon Johnson; another was Sam Brownback, under whom Colyer currently serves as lieutenant governor.
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