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Mark Obenshain (born June 11, 1962) is a Republican member of the Virginia Senate from Harrisonburg. Events 1184 BC - Trojan War: Troy is sacked and burned according to the calculations of Eratosthenes. Year 1962 ( MCMLXII) was a Common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The Republican Party of Virginia (RPV is based in Richmond in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Senate of Virginia is the Upper house of the Virginia General Assembly. Obenshain has accumulated a conservative voting record since his election to the Shenandoah Valley's 26th state senate district in 2003. Conservatism is a term used to describe political philosophies that favour Tradition, where tradition refers to various religious cultural or nationally defined The Shenandoah Valley region of western Virginia and West Virginia is bounded by the Blue Ridge Mountains to the east and the Appalachian Obenshain's 2003 victory was a lopsided 68-32% win over former Harrisonburg mayor Rodney Eagle for an open seat.

In the Senate, Obenshain is a member of the Agriculture, Conservation, and Natural Resources, Courts of Justice, Local Government, and the Privileges and Elections Committee. For fundraising and organizational purposes he is a member of the conservative Republican Senate Victory PAC.

In 2007, Obenshain easily won reelection over Democrat Maxine Hope Roles by a 70-29 percent margin.

In private life, Obenshain is married to Suzanne Speas Obenshain and a partner at the Lenhart-Obenshain law firm. Obenshain is a member of First Presbyterian Church and a former director of the Harrisonburg Rotary Club. Presbyterianism is a family of Christian denominations within the Reformed branch of Protestant Western Christianity Prior to joining the Senate, Obenshain was also a member of James Madison University's Board of Visitors and the Governor's Advisory Commission on Welfare Reform.

The Virginia Tech undergrad, and Washington & Lee law school grad is the son of former Virginia Republican Committee Chairman Richard D. Obenshain and the brother of the immediate past Chairman, Kate Obenshain Griffin. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, better known as Virginia Tech, is a public land grant polytechnic University in Washington and Lee University is a private liberal arts college in Lexington Virginia, USA Richard Dudley (Dick Obenshain (1936 – August 2 1978) was an Attorney in southwest Virginia and rising conservative political leader Kate Obenshain Griffin served as chairwoman of the Republican Party of Virginia from 2004 to 2006 and is the first woman to serve as Chair


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