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Craig Miner

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ52084620
Source-derived summary

Craig Miner is a Republican former member of the Connecticut Senate, representing the 30th District from 2017-2023.

Career

In 1989, Miner was the owner/operator of Litchfield Hills Filling Station until 1998.

Miner was the former State Senator for the 30th Senate District from 2017-2023, representing part of Fairfield and Litchfield Counties in the Connecticut Senate, including the towns of Brookfield, Canaan, Cornwall, Goshen, Kent, Litchfield, Morris, New Milford, North Canaan, Salisbury, Sharon, Torrington, Warren and Winchester. Prior to his election to the Senate, Miner had served eight terms as the state representative to the 66th House District.

Personal life

Miner's wife is Margy. He had three children Justin, Heather and Katie.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Craig Miner” is american politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Craig, Miner and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017, 2023, 1989, 1998—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Craig, Miner and American is the immediate research focus.
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Evidence profile

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 Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52084620. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017, 2023, 1989 and 1998.

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This entry incorporates text from Craig Miner” 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.