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Understanding the Colorado House of Representatives

This quiz tests your knowledge about the Colorado House of Representatives and its role within the state legislature.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • Marsha Looper, a Republican state legislator elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006 by a 2-to-1 margin, is also a systems engineer, real estate broker, and rancher.
  • Kenneth Summers pastored four Assemblies of God churches before being elected to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006.
  • Sara Gagliardi has introduced legislation in the Colorado House of Representatives to allow residents of that state to opt out from receiving junk mail.
  • Terrance Carroll, the grandson of a sharecropper, is slated to become the first African American ever to serve as Speaker of the Colorado House of Representatives.
  • during his U.S. Air Force career, Colorado state representative Kent Lambert oversaw military support for the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster investigation at Air Force Space Command.
  • Jeanne Labuda, a Democratic member of the Colorado House of Representatives elected in 2006, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia.
  • Glenn Vaad was elected to seats on his local town board, school board, sanitation board, and county commission before winning election to the Colorado House of Representatives in 2006.
  • Colorado state representative Spencer Swalm spent time as a Christian missionary in Bolivia.
  • Colorado state representative Joe Rice (pictured) resigned from the Glendale city council in 2003 when called up to serve in the U.S. Army in Iraq, where he advised the Baghdad city council.
  • Colorado state representative Victor Mitchell secured state funding for Project Lifesaver programs that would provide tracking bracelets for the cognitvely impaired.
  • state representative Dianne Primavera, a breast and cervical cancer survivor, sponsored legislation for the Colorado Breast and Women's Reproductive Cancers Fund.
  • Republican Jerry Sonnenberg was the only member of the largest class of freshman legislators in the history of the Colorado House of Representatives to be elected to an open seat without opposition.
  • Colorado state representative Cherylin Peniston won two Fulbright Scholarships while a public school teacher.