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Cathy Jo Loy

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ132408799 ↗
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Cathy Jo Loy is an American politician who was elected member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 163rd district in 2024.

Loy lives in Carthage, Missouri. She is a veteran conservative grassroots organizer.

She and her husband Clint have five children and ten grandchildren.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cathy Jo Loy” 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.