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Carl Turner (politician)

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ108312563 ↗
Source-derived summary

Carl Turner is an American politician serving as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from the 28th district. Elected in November 2020, he assumed office on January 11, 2021.

Education

Turner earned a Bachelor of Science degree in accounting from the University of Central Missouri and a Master of Business Administration in finance from Rockhurst University.

Career

From 1996 to 2008, Turner worked as in various project manager and program director roles at Aquila, Inc. From 2008 to 2013, he was an IT project manager at the Kansas City Power and Light Company. From 2014 to 2016, he was a technical project manager at Genesis10. From 2016 to 2017, he was a financial and business analyst at the Midwest Consulting Group. From 2017 to 2020, he worked as a financial and business analyst at the Science Applications International Corporation. He was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives in November 2020 and assumed office on January 11, 2021.

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Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2020, 2021, 1996, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Carl, Turner and politician can be independently traced.
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Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q108312563. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2020, 2021, 1996 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Carl Turner (politician)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.