Biography
Marvin Manring is a Democratic candidate for Missouri House of Representatives District 127 in the November 3, 2026 general election.[1][2] Manring is a music educator who has run for the Missouri House in 2020, 2022 and 2024.[1][3]
Marvin Manring was born in Albany, Missouri, and earned a bachelor's degree from Central Methodist College in 1985, followed by graduate study at Central Missouri State University and Southwest Baptist University.[1] In a 2020 Ballotpedia survey, he said he was raised on a farm in Northwest Missouri in a family of eight children and has been a 35-year Missouri public school music educator who moved to Stockton in 1993.[3]
Manring ran for District 128 in 2020, when incumbent Mike Stephens defeated him in the November 3 general election.[1] He then ran for District 127, losing to incumbent Ann Kelley in the general elections of November 8, 2022, and November 5, 2024.[1] He advanced from the Democratic primary on August 4, 2026.[1] In his 2020 survey, Manring named education funding, Medicaid expansion and women's rights as policy areas of passion, and said the General Assembly should implement voter ballot initiatives rather than legislate around them.[3]
- 1.Marvin Manring - Ballotpedia · Ballotpedia Reference
- 2.Missouri House of Representatives elections, 2026 - Ballotpedia · Ballotpedia Reference
- 3.Marvin Manring, Ballotpedia Candidate Connection survey (2020) · Ballotpedia Candidate's own words
Researched from the cited sources on 2026-10-21. Not yet independently fact-checked.
Missouri House District 127
Marvin Manring is on the Nov 3, 2026 ballot for Missouri House District 127 as D. Not researched in depth — candidate list only.