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Dave Yost

American politician and lawyer (born 1956)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

David Anthony Yost is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 51st attorney general of Ohio from 2019 until 2026. A member of the Republican Party, Yost previously served as the state auditor of Ohio from 2011 to 2019.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Dave Yost” is american politician and lawyer (born 1956). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Dave, Yost and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2019, 2026, 2011—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Dave, Yost 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 Jul 23, 2026. The first chronological checks are 2019, 2026 and 2011.

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This entry incorporates text from “Dave Yost” 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.