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Biography
Rob Standridge is an American pharmacy owner and politician who has served in the Oklahoma Senate since his election in 2012.
Early life
Standridge sold newspapers as a boy, worked as an emergency medical technician in 1985 and operated a landscaping company until his graduation from the University of Oklahoma in 1993 with a bachelor's degree in pharmacy.
In 1995, he purchased a small pharmacy in Blanchard, Oklahoma and expanded the pharmacy into an interactive online pharmacy. In 2005, it was transformed into a pharmacy that specialized in juveniles and the mentally disabled.
Political career
Standridge won a runoff in the Republican primary by a wide margin.
He faced Democratic Party opponent Claudia Griffith, a registered nurse, in his 2012 campaign for the Oklahoma Senate District 15 seat. He received 18,789 votes, or more than 60 percent of the vote on November 6, 2012.
Standridge was sworn in November 14, 2012.