Background
Damschroder is the son of Gene Damschroder, who held the same House seat from 1973 to 1983.
Damschroder is the son of Gene Damschroder, who held the same House seat from 1973 to 1983.
Bowling Green State University.
He was also a member from 1995 to 2003. Damschroder is a Republican. Damschroder has owned several small business throughout the community, and is a licensed realtor.
He has served on Fremont City Council and at Terra Community College on the Board of Trustees.
He is a graduate of Bowling Green State University and Tiffin University. Damschroder was elected to the in 1994, representing the 89th district which included parts of Sandusky County and Seneca Counties.
He served from 1995 to 2003, when he was required to step down due to term limits. In 2002, Damschroder unsuccessfully challenged incumbent Congressman Paul Gillmor in the 5th congressional district Republican primary.
After that, he remained out of the political realm for eight years.
However, with successor Jeff Wagner termed out in 2010, Damschroder made a comeback. In the general election, Democrats placed high hopes on Seneca County, Ohio Commissioner Ben Nutter, but Damschroder defeated him with 55.31% of the vote. Damschroder was sworn in for his fifth term on January 3, 2011.
He is serving on the committees of Agriculture and Natural Resources, State Government and Elections, and Transportation, Public Safety and Homeland Security (as vice chair).
In late March 2011, Damschroder suffered from a heart attack and received triple bypass heart surgery two days later. With Senator Karen Gillmor resigning her seat, Damschroder had been named as a possible successor.
However, it was announced later that he would not seek the appointment. Damschroder ran for reelection in 2012, facing opposition from Democratic nominee Bill Young.
Damschroder defeated Young by 55.6% to 44.4%, winning reelection.
On February 13, 2014, Damschroder announced he was withdrawing his re-election bid after the Board of Elections Director announced that his name would not appear on the ballot because he forgot to sign his Declaration of Candidacy form, a legal document, that without the candidate"s signature caused his candidacy to be invalid. Number other candidate filed for the race, and Damschroder said he was looking at all his options to get back on the ballot, including running as a write-in candidate. Damschroder lost the primary election to Bill Reineke.
Social issues
Damschroder has proposed legislation that would ban reading or writing on any digital device while driving.
lieutenant passed the House almost unanimously. He has rejected the notion that it takes away from personal freedoms.
With the Ohio Statehouse adding a full service bar to their existing restaurant, Damschroder came out in opposition of serving alcohol at the Statehouse. Damschroder is currently working to prevent high voltage power lines from being erected through a nature preserve known as Peninsular Farms in Fremont, Ohio.
* Rhonda Damschroder ran as a placeholder for Rex.