Derek Schmidt

American politician (born 1968)

IncumbentU.S. House — KS-02RepublicanRunning nowVugol ID VM-STV-DGC5 FEC H4KS02164

Running for U.S. House, KS-02, 2026

Link: vugol.me/p/derek-schmidt

Roster source: FEC filing (2026-08-26)

Headshot · unitedstates.github.io

Derek Schmidt — Photo — Photo · Joshua S. Gillihan-Young · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Derek Schmidt — Illustration · Vugol.me — Illustration · Vugol.me
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain

Races

2026 · U.S. House, KS-02 · General · Republican · on the ballot · incumbent
2024 · U.S. House, KS-02 · General · Republican · result not on file · source
2018 · Attorney General, KS · General · Republican · won · 613,559 votes (58.9%) · source

Background

Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023.

A Republican, Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate, where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011, and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011, after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six.

From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 2026-09-24 · https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Schmidt

Campaign finance

$1,457,605total raised (2026 cycle)

$556,938total spent (2026 cycle)

$939,168cash on hand (2026 cycle)

As of 2026-07-15 · Source: FEC

Website and social

Official websitevia Wikidata

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Sources

Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-24 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Schmidt
Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5262335
Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4KS02164/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Josh_Gillihan-Young_Presented_the_Kosovo_Campaign_Medal_by_U.S._Congressman_Derek_Schmidt_(R-KS).jpg
photo_headshot — https://unitedstates.github.io/
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schmidt_Derek_119th_Congress_(cropped).jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Schmidt_Derek_119th_Congress.jpg
photo_gallery — https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Derek_Schmidt.jpg

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