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Christopher D. Croft Sr., also known as Chris Croft, is a retired United States Army colonel and an American politician. He is currently serving as a Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives. He represents District 8, which includes the southwestern portion of the city of Overland Park, Kansas.

Croft is the chair of House Redistricting Committee and the vice chair of the House Insurance and Pensions Committee. Prior to his tenure in the Kansas House of Representatives, he served in the United States Army for thirty years and retired in 2018.

Military Career: Croft was commissioned as a second lieutenant after graduating from the University of Central Florida in 1987. His initial assignment was to the 28th Transportation Platoon and the 22nd Area Support group at Caserma Ederle in Vicenza, Italy. He was then assigned to Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, where he commanded Delta Company, 725th Main Support Battalion, 25th Infantry Division.

Upon graduating from Command and General Staff College in 2000 and the School of Advanced Military Studies in 2001, Croft served as Chief of Plans and Exercises and as a division transportation officer of the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Hood, Texas, and continued to serve in that role at Tikrit South Air Base, Iraq. Croft then became an operations officer to the 2d Brigade Combat Team in Baqubah, Iraq, and commanded both the 106th Transportation Battalion, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault) and the 101st Sustainment Brigade (Rear) (Provisional) at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, and later in Balad, Iraq.

Following these assignments, Croft served as Chief of the Grade Logistics Branch for two years and one year as Chief of the Force Sustainment Division of the United States Army Human Resources Command. From 2013 to 2017, he was stationed at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he served as executive director of the Center for Army Leadership. He retired from the U.S. Army as a colonel in January 2018.

Political Career: In the 2018 primary elections, Croft defeated incumbent Republican Patty Markley. After the general election later that year, he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives. In 2020 he was re-elected to the Kansas House of Representatives for a second term. He began serving as house majority leader in 2023.

Personal Life: Chris Croft lives in Overland Park, Kansas. He served in the United States Army from 1988 to 2018 and reached the rank of Colonel. Croft earned a bachelor of science from the University of Central Florida in 1987 and a master’s degree in Advanced Military and Operational Studies from the United States Army Command and General Staff College in 2001. Croft’s career experience includes working as an executive director with the Talent Management Task Force and the Center for Army Leadership. He has been a member of the Army Week Association board and the American Fallen Warrior Memorial Foundation board. Chris and his wife, Connie, have two grown children and six grandchildren.