Actor Ben Savage Is Planning to Run for Congressional District in California

Ben Savage speaks onstage at the "Boy Meets World" 25th Anniversary Reunion panel during New York Comic Con 2018 at Jacob K. Javits Convention Center in New York, on Oct. 5, 2018. Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images for New York Comic Con

Ben Savage, an American actor who rose to fame playing the lead role in the 1990s sitcom “Boy Meets World,” is planning to run for Congress as a Democrat.

According to a file submitted on Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), the 42-year-old is making a bid for the U.S. House of Representatives in California’s 30th Congressional District.