Tory Marie Blew
{{Short description|American politician (born 1993)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}
{{Infobox officeholder
|name =
|image = Tory Marie Arnberger-Blew by Gage Skidmore.jpg
|caption =
|state_senate = Kansas
|district = 33rd
|term_start = January 13, 2025
|term_end =
|predecessor = Alicia Straub
|successor =
|state_house1 = Kansas
|district1 = 112th
|term_start1 = January 9, 2017
|term_end1 = January 13, 2025
|predecessor1 = John Edmonds
|successor1 = Sherri Brantley
|birth_name = Tory Marie Arnberger
|birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|5|3}}
|birth_place = Great Bend, Kansas, U.S.
|party = Republican
|spouse = {{marriage|Justin Blew|September 26, 2020}}{{cite web|title=Tory and Justin's Wedding|url=https://www.theknot.com/us/tory-marie-arnberger-and-justin-blew-sep-2020|website=theknot.com}}
|education = Fort Hays State University
}}
Tory Marie Blew ({{nee|Arnberger}}; born May 3, 1993) is an American politician from the state of Kansas. She served as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 2017 to 2025, representing the 112th district in Barton County, Kansas.
She announced her candidacy while a senior at Fort Hays State University,{{cite web|author=Maggie Gebhardt |url=https://www.hdnews.net/article/20160405/NEWS/304059794 |title=FHSU's Arnberger files for 112th district |publisher=Hays Daily News |date=2016-04-05 |access-date=2019-12-02}} and was the youngest member of the Kansas Legislature from 2017 to 2021. In 2022, she was elected as the House Majority Whip. She also was the chair of Kansas Young Republicans in 2021-2022 and currently serves as their National Committeewoman. In 2024, she was elected to the state senate.{{cite web|url=https://sos.ks.gov/elections/24elec/2024-General-Election-Official-Vote-Totals.pdf|title=2024 General Election Official Vote Totals|work=Kansas Secretary of State|year=2024}}
Personal life
Blew is from Great Bend, Kansas. She graduated from Fort Hays State University with a degree in business education and subsequently worked as a teacher in a rural school district.{{cite web|url=https://www.millennialaction.org/tory-arnberger |title=Rep. Tory Arnberger Kansas Future Caucus |publisher=Millennial Action Project |access-date=2020-05-15}} She continues to work for her family business, as the Human Resources Director of Pryor Automatic Fire Sprinkler.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
Arnberger married her husband, Justin Blew, on September 26, 2020.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
Kansas House of Representatives (2017–present)
= Committee assignments =
- Federal and State Affairs (Vice Chairman)
- Health and Human Services
- General Government Budget
- 2021 Special Committee on Mental Health Modernization and Reform
- 2021 Special Committee on Child Support Enforcement and Collection
- General Government Budget (Vice Chairman)
- Federal and State Affairs
- Health and Human Services
- 2020 Special Committee on Mental Health Modernization and Reform
- Federal and State Affairs
- Education
- Agriculture and Natural Resources Budget
= Caucus memberships =
- Co-Chair of the Kansas chapter of Future Caucus, alongside Nick Hoheisel, Rui Xu, and Brandon Woodard.{{Cite web |title=Kansas |url=https://futurecaucus.org/future-caucus/state-future-caucus-network/kansas/ |access-date=2025-06-05 |website=Future Caucus |language=en-US}}{{cite web|url=https://www.millennialaction.org/tory-arnberger |title=Rep. Tory Arnberger Kansas Future Caucus |publisher=Millennial Action Project |access-date=2019-12-02}}
References
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Category:Republican Party members of the Kansas House of Representatives
Category:21st-century members of the Kansas Legislature
Category:21st-century American women politicians
Category:Educators from Kansas
Category:American women educators
Category:Women state legislators in Kansas
Category:Fort Hays State University alumni
Category:People from Great Bend, Kansas
Category:Republican Party Kansas state senators
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