Andrew P. Koenig (born December 21, 1982) is an American politician who has served in the Missouri Senate since 2017.
From 2013 to 2017, he represented the 99th district, which includes Manchester, Twin Oaks, Valley Park, and parts of Fenton.
[10] As a representative, Koenig made several legislative attempts to add the pseudoscientific arguments of creationism and intelligent design to the public school science curricula, specifically in the fields of biology and chemistry.
In 2015, Koenig sponsored a bill, HB 486, that proposed allowing teachers the freedom to introduce "differences of opinion about controversial issues, including biological and chemical evolution.
Koenig also cosponsored HB 1472 in 2013, which would require schools to notify parents if they had "instruction relating to the theory of evolution by natural selection".