| Tristan Rader | |
| State: | Ohio |
| District: | 13th |
| State House: | Ohio |
| Predecessor: | Michael J. Skindell |
| Party: | Democratic |
Tristan W. Rader is an American politician who is the representative-elect for the 13th district of the Ohio House of Representatives, after winning in the 2024 election. A Democrat, he was previously a member of the Lakewood city council.
In 2016, Rader was the operations director of the Cuyahoga County Progressive Caucus, an organization that endorsed and campaigned for Bernie Sanders's presidential campaign, as well as various local progressive causes.[1]
Rader was elected to an at-large seat of the Lakewood, Ohio, city council in 2017, taking office in 2018.[2] He was reelected in 2021.
Rader ran in the Democratic primary for Ohio's 7th congressional district;[3] however, he suspended his campaign on April 2.[4] He remained on the ballot, losing to Matthew Diemer, who went on to lose the general election to Republican Max Miller.[5]
In 2024, Democrat Michael J. Skindell, the representative of the 13th district in the Ohio House of Representatives, chose not to run for reelection.[6] Rader ran to succeed him. He won the Democratic primary unopposed, and won the general election against Republican Robert E. Dintaman.[7]
Rader lives with his wife, Caitlin, in downtown Lakewood.