David Deets

In March 1992, he was appointed to succeed the late Myron Olson in the Illinois House of Representatives.^[1] He was on the board of directors for a medical arts clinic at the time of his appointment and the only practicing physician in the General Assembly.^[2][3] He ran for election in the 73rd district, a staunchly Republican district which included all or parts of Bureau, Henry, Lee, Ogle, and Whiteside.^[4] He lost by 378 votes to Democratic attorney and former Whiteside County Board member Pennie Von Bergen Wessels.^[5]

In 2016, he was a member of the Lee County Tuberculosis Sanatorium Board.^[6]