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Pat Proctor
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Candidate, Kansas Secretary of State

Kansas House of Representatives District 41
Tenure

2021 - Present

Term ends

2027

Years in position

4

Predecessor

Compensation

Base salary

$86.66/session day

Per diem

$166/day

Elections and appointments
Last elected

November 5, 2024

Next election

November 3, 2026

Education

Bachelor's

Purdue University, 1994

Graduate

U.S. Army War College

Other

Kansas State University, 2014

Military

Service / branch

U.S. Army

Years of service

1989 - 2019

Personal
Religion
Christian
Profession
Business owner
Contact

Pat Proctor (Republican Party) is a member of the Kansas House of Representatives, representing District 41. He assumed office on January 11, 2021. His current term ends on January 11, 2027.

Proctor earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1994. That same year, he joined the U.S. Army, where he served until 2019, attaining the rank of Colonel.[1][2] In 1998, he founded ProSIM Company, a company that develops military simulation games.[3] Between 2008 and 2014, Proctor pursued a doctorate in history, which he earned from Kansas State University in 2014.[1] After earning his doctorate, Proctor worked as a professor at Benedictine College and Wichita State University.[1]

Proctor ran for District 41 of the Kansas House of Representatives in 2020. In his response to Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection, he said he ran to improve conditions for his neighbors: "As we got to know our neighbors, we found that a lot of folks were hurting... These aren't bad folks; they're victims of the system that was intended to help them... They deserve a future, opportunities, and hope."[4] Proctor defeated Mike Griswold 53% to 47%. He was re-elected in 2022 and 2024 with 52% and 53% of the vote, respectively.

During the 2025 legislative session, Proctor chaired the House's Elections Committee. The Topeka Capital-Journal's Jack Harvel wrote that Proctor was "the designated speaker carrying election bills in the Kansas House."[5] In 2025, he voted for a bill to ban the use of ranked-choice voting in any elections in the state.[6] That same year, he also voted for a bill that required early voting ballots be received by 7:00 p.m. on Election Day.[7] Gov. Laura Kelly (D) vetoed the bill, and Proctor was one of 84 Republicans who voted to override the veto.[8] He also sponsored an amendment, that was approved for the 2026 ballot, to require that only U.S. citizens be eligible to vote.[9]

On April 3, 2025, Proctor announced he would run for secretary of state of Kansas in 2026. At his inaugural campaign event, he said, "Voter confidence that the results of our elections reflect their will is at the core of our form of government and our way of life. The best way to restore that confidence is to increase transparency and ensure that only citizens vote in Kansas’ elections."[10]

Biography

Pat Proctor served in the U.S. Army from 1989 to 2019. Proctor earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Purdue University in 1994; master's degrees from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies, and the U.S. Army War College; and a doctorate in history from Kansas State University in 2014.[4][11] Proctor's career experience includes working as an assistant professor with Wichita State University and owning ProSIM Company.[11]

Committee assignments

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2023-2024

Proctor was assigned to the following committees:

2021-2022

Proctor was assigned to the following committees:

The following table lists bills this person sponsored as a legislator, according to BillTrack50 and sorted by action history. Bills are sorted by the date of their last action. The following list may not be comprehensive. To see all bills this legislator sponsored, click on the legislator's name in the title of the table.


Elections

2026

See also: Kansas Secretary of State election, 2026

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General election

The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.

General election for Kansas Secretary of State

Sam Lane, Pat Proctor, and Ken Rahjes are running in the general election for Kansas Secretary of State on November 3, 2026.

Candidate
Image of Sam Lane
Sam Lane (D) Candidate Connection
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor (R)
Image of Ken Rahjes
Ken Rahjes (R)

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2024

See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2024

General election

General election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Incumbent Pat Proctor defeated Aimee Bateman in the general election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on November 5, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor (R)
 
52.6
 
3,338
Image of Aimee Bateman
Aimee Bateman (D)
 
47.4
 
3,014

Total votes: 6,352
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Aimee Bateman advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Aimee Bateman
Aimee Bateman
 
100.0
 
477

Total votes: 477
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Incumbent Pat Proctor defeated Robert Owens in the Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 6, 2024.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor
 
65.8
 
910
Robert Owens
 
34.2
 
472

Total votes: 1,382
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Endorsements

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Pledges

Proctor signed the following pledges.

  • U.S. Term Limits

2022

See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2022

General election

General election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Incumbent Pat Proctor defeated Harry Schwarz in the general election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on November 8, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor (R)
 
51.6
 
2,324
Harry Schwarz (D)
 
48.4
 
2,180

Total votes: 4,504
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Harry Schwarz advanced from the Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Harry Schwarz
 
100.0
 
1,262

Total votes: 1,262
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Incumbent Pat Proctor advanced from the Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 2, 2022.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor
 
100.0
 
1,618

Total votes: 1,618
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2020

See also: Kansas House of Representatives elections, 2020

General election

General election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Pat Proctor defeated Mike Griswold in the general election for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on November 3, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor (R) Candidate Connection
 
53.0
 
3,846
Image of Mike Griswold
Mike Griswold (D) Candidate Connection
 
47.0
 
3,411

Total votes: 7,257
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Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Mike Griswold defeated Whitney Davis Moulden and Donald Terrien in the Democratic primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Mike Griswold
Mike Griswold Candidate Connection
 
48.5
 
630
Whitney Davis Moulden
 
45.0
 
585
Donald Terrien
 
6.5
 
85

Total votes: 1,300
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Republican primary election

Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41

Pat Proctor advanced from the Republican primary for Kansas House of Representatives District 41 on August 4, 2020.

Candidate
%
Votes
Image of Pat Proctor
Pat Proctor Candidate Connection
 
100.0
 
1,434

Total votes: 1,434
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Campaign themes

2026

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2024

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2022

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2020

Candidate Connection

Pat Proctor completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2020. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Proctor's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.

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I have a lifetime of service. I enlisted as a private in the Army in 1989 and retired as a colonel in July 2019. I served two tours in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. Since leaving the Army, I have continued to serve through my church and service organizations here in Leavenworth.

  I am also an educator. I teach a couple days a week as an assistant professor in the Homeland Security program at Wichita State University.  

Finally, I'm a business owner. My wife and I own Baan Thai Restaurant and have turned it into the biggest Thai restaurant chain in Kansas. Our success has allowed us to give back to our community; we're heavily invested in revitalizing downtown Leavenworth.
  • Bringing jobs and opportunity back to Leavenworth is job #1!
  • During my lifetime of service, I learned that leaders must be servants first, putting service above self.
  • Our kids deserve a world-class education; we have got to bring accountability to our education spending.
Once I decided to retire from the Army, my wife and I started working on the house we wanted to spend the rest of our lives in. it's a neat old house on Kickapoo street.

 
When we started working on the house, we found a couple of kids living in our garage. They were maybe 20 years old, homeless, and addicted to drugs.
 
As we got to know our neighbors, we found that a lot of folks were hurting. Many were unemployed or underemployed and dependent on a government check to survive.
 
These aren't bad folks; they're victims of the system that was intended to help them.
 

I am running for my neighbors. They deserve a future, opportunities, and hope.
People deserve opportunity and hope for the future.

 
The programs designed to help low-income folks in my neighborhood have trapped them in poverty. Food stamps, welfare, and the proposed Medicaid expansion all have salary caps at or near the poverty line. We're punishing people for trying to improve their lives.
 
We need to make it easier for small businesses to hire people, too.
 

State taxes on Baan Thai went up nearly twenty thousand dollars in 2016 and another twenty thousand in 2017. That's a full-time employee that I can't hire. Multiply that across the whole town and Kansas has taxed away hundreds of good jobs.

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Campaign finance summary


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Pat Proctor campaign contribution history
YearOfficeStatusContributionsExpenditures
2024* Kansas House of Representatives District 41Won general$148,626 $0
2022Kansas House of Representatives District 41Won general$188,954 $0
2020Kansas House of Representatives District 41Won general$113,962 N/A**
Grand total$451,542 N/A**
Sources: OpenSecretsFederal Elections Commission ***This product uses the openFEC API but is not endorsed or certified by the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
* Data from this year may not be complete
** Data on expenditures is not available for this election cycle
Note: Totals above reflect only available data.

Scorecards

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Preceded by
Jeff Pittman (D)
Kansas House of Representatives District 41
2021-Present
Succeeded by
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