# Chairman James Comer biography (House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform)

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**Page title:** Chairman James Comer - United States House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform

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- "attended Western Kentucky University to study agriculture"
- "elected to serve the first of six terms in the Kentucky House of Representatives" (beginning 2000)
- "elected to serve as Kentucky's Commissioner of Agriculture in 2011"
- "elected to Congress in 2016"
- represents "the 1st Congressional District of Kentucky"
- "Chairman of the House Oversight Committee"; previously Ranking Member "from June 2020 to December 2022"

Checked and not found on this page: a birth date or birthplace, and a year for a completed degree.