district succeeded death_date death_place religion birth_place party term_end preceded birth_date term_start article_title state name
6th ted strickland 2 january 2003 gallipolis , ohio christian cheshire , ohio republican january 3 , 1997 ted strickland april 5 , 1943 january 3 , 1995 frank cremeans
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frank cremeans

frank a. cremeans -lrb- april 5 , 1943 -- january 2 , 2003 -rrb- was an ohio small-businessman who represented ohio in the united states house of representatives as a republican .
he served one term in congress , from 1995 to 1997 .
cremeans was born in cheshire , ohio .
after graduating from kyger creek high school , cheshire , ohio he earned his b.a. at the university of rio grande , rio grande , ohio , in 1965 and his m.a. at ohio university in 1969 .
cremeans , the self-made millionaire owner of a concrete company in gallipolis , was elected in the republican landslide in 1994 , narrowly defeating one-term incumbent ted strickland in ohio 's sixth congressional district .
strickland challenged cremeans in 1996 to regain the seat .
strickland won by a slim majority thanks to strong democratic turnout in southeastern ohio , particularly in athens county .
cremeans subsequently returned to gallipolis and his concrete business .
in 1998 , cremeans sought to retake his seat from strickland , but he was defeated in a three-way republican primary by lieutenant governor nancy hollister .
in march 2000 , he challenged gop incumbent senator mike dewine in a three way primary , finishing in third place with 8 % of the vote .
-lrb- dewine drew 80 % , and gun show promoter ronald dickson drew 12 % . -rrb-
he died in gallipolis in 2003 due to a respiratory disease .
