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Jonathan Sickler

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ112845352 ↗
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Jonathan Sickler is an American politician. He serves as a Republican member for the 17th district of the North Dakota Senate.

Sickler was born in Dickinson, North Dakota and raised on a farm. He attended the University of North Dakota, where he earned an undergraduate degree, and Harvard Law School, where he earned a Juris Doctor degree. He practised law in Washington, D.C., returning to North Dakota to work as a chief legal officer in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

In 2022 Sickler was appointed to represent District 17 in the North Dakota Senate, succeeding longtime senator Ray Holmberg. Sickler assumed his office on June 2, 2022, and was subsequently elected to a full term in November 2022.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jonathan Sickler” 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.