district state_senate succeeded party preceded term article_title state name
14th ohio doug white republican bill mussey april 3 , 1979-march 30 , 1996 cooper snyder
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cooper snyder

cooper snyder is a republican politician who formerly served in the ohio senate .
when bill mussey resigned from the senate in 1979 to take a spot on the ohio industrial commission , snyder was appointed to his seat .
he was elected to his own full term a year later , in 1980 .
he won reelection to a second term in 1984 .
in 1988 , snyder initially sought to run for the united states house of representatives , but instead remained in the senate , winning a third term .
he won a fourth term in the senate in 1992 .
by 1994 , snyder again sought to run for the united states congress for a seat held by first-term congressman ted strickland .
but in a crowded republican primary , snyder lost the nomination to frank cremeans , who won the election .
with his congressional defeat , snyder returned to the senate .
by 1996 , snyder announced that he would retire , citing term limits as the reason .
in an effort to give a successor a head start , snyder resigned early from the seat , and was replaced by doug white , who served as senate president later in his term .
he served as chairman of the ohio community school network , until retiring in the early 2000s .
