Gary Sherrer | |
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| 45th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas | |
| In office July 18, 1996 –January 13, 2003 | |
| Governor | Bill Graves |
| Preceded by | Sheila Frahm |
| Succeeded by | John E. Moore |
| Personal details | |
| Born | September 3,1940 |
| Political party | Republican |
| Alma mater | Emporia State University |
Gary Sherrer (born September 3,1940) is an American former politician. He was the 45th Lieutenant Governor of Kansas from 1996 to 2003. He is an alumnus of Emporia State University. [1]
Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north;Missouri to the east;Oklahoma to the south;and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River,in turn named after the Kansa people. Its capital is Topeka,and its most populous city is Wichita,however the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City,MO–KS metropolitan area.
Kansas City,Missouri is the largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri by population and area. Most of the city lies within Jackson County,and other portions spill into Clay,Platte,and Cass counties. It is the central city of the Kansas City metropolitan area,which straddles the Missouri–Kansas state line and has a population of 2,392,035. As of the 2020 census,the city had a population of 508,090,making it the 37th most-populous city in the United States,as well as the sixth-most populous city in the Midwest. Kansas City was founded in the 1830s as a port on the Missouri River at its confluence with the Kansas River from the west. On June 1,1850,the town of Kansas was incorporated;shortly after came the establishment of the Kansas Territory. Confusion between the two ensued,and the name Kansas City was assigned to distinguish them soon after.
Robert Joseph Dole was an American politician and attorney from Kansas who served in both chambers of the United States Congress,the U.S. House of Representatives in the 1960s and the United States Senate from 1969 to his resignation in 1996 to campaign for President of the United States. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his tenure,including three non-consecutive years as Senate Majority Leader. Prior to his 27 years in the U.S. Senate,he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1961 to 1969. Dole was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 election and the vice presidential nominee in the 1976 election.
John Brown was a prominent leader in the American abolitionist movement in the decades preceding the Civil War. First reaching national prominence in the 1850s for his radical abolitionism and fighting in Bleeding Kansas,Brown was captured,tried,and executed by the Commonwealth of Virginia for a raid and incitement of a slave rebellion at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator,physician,Christian chaplain,and sports coach,best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States,he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in 1898. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin,as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).
Charles Curtis was an American attorney and Republican politician from Kansas who served as the 31st vice president of the United States from 1929 to 1933 under Herbert Hoover. He had served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1924 to 1929. A member of the Kaw Nation born in the Kansas Territory,Curtis was the first Native American and first person in a racial minority group to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch.
Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party,he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election,and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent president Franklin D. Roosevelt. Landon,who got a mere 8 votes in the electoral college,saw Roosevelt get 523 votes,the biggest victory of the 4 times he got voted into the office of president. Landon lived a long life,and died in October 1987 at age 100.
Kansas is an American rock band formed in Topeka,Kansas in 1973. They became popular during the decade initially on album-oriented rock charts and later with hit singles such as "Carry On Wayward Son" and "Dust in the Wind". The band has produced nine gold albums,three multi-platinum albums,one other platinum studio album (Monolith),one platinum live double album,and a million-selling single,"Dust in the Wind". Kansas appeared on the US Billboard charts for over 200 weeks throughout the 1970s and 1980s and played to sold-out arenas and stadiums throughout North America,Europe and Japan. "Carry On Wayward Son" was the second-most-played track on US classic rock radio in 1995 and No. 1 in 1997.
Samuel Dale Brownback is an American attorney,politician,and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011 and as the 46th governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. A member of the Republican Party,Brownback also served as the United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom during the administration of President Donald Trump and was a candidate for the Republican nomination for President in 2008.
Dennis Lynn Rader,also known as BTK,is an American serial killer who murdered at least ten people in Wichita and Park City,Kansas,between 1974 and 1991. Although Rader occasionally killed or attempted to kill men and children,he typically targeted women. His victims were often bound,sometimes with objects from their homes,and either suffocated with a plastic bag or manually strangled with a ligature.
Forrest Clare "Phog" Allen,D.O. was an American basketball coach and physician. Known as the "Father of Basketball Coaching," he served as the head basketball coach at Baker University (1905–1908),the University of Kansas,Haskell Institute—now Haskell Indian Nations University (1908–1909),and Warrensburg Teachers College—now the University of Central Missouri (1912–1919),compiling a career college basketball record of 746–264. In his 39 seasons at the helm of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball program,his teams won 24 conference championships and three national titles.
Eric Allen Stonestreet is an American actor. He is best known for portraying Cameron Tucker in the ABC sitcom Modern Family,for which he received two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series out of three nominations. He first rose to prominence in a recurring role on CSI:Crime Scene Investigation. He has also appeared in films including Bad Teacher (2011),Identity Thief (2013),The Loft (2013),and Confirmation (2016),and provides the voice of Duke in the animated The Secret Life of Pets film franchise (2016–2019).
The Kansas City crime family,also known as the Civella crime family,the Kansas City Mafia or the Clique,is an Italian-American Mafia crime family based in Kansas City,Missouri.
The Kansas City Chiefs are a professional American football team based in Kansas City,Missouri. The Chiefs compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member club of the league's American Football Conference (AFC) West division.
Tyreek Hill is an American football wide receiver for the Miami Dolphins of the National Football League (NFL). Hill was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL draft. He played college football at Garden City,Oklahoma State,and West Alabama.
Travis Michael Kelce is an American football tight end for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). He was selected by the Chiefs in the third round of the 2013 NFL draft and later won Super Bowls LIV,LVII,and LVIII with the team. He played college football for the Cincinnati Bearcats.
Jacob Andrew Joseph LaTurner is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party,LaTurner was the 40th Kansas State Treasurer from 2017 to 2021 and a state senator from the 13th district from 2013 to 2017.
Patrick Lavon Mahomes II is an American professional football quarterback for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League (NFL). Mahomes has led the Chiefs to six consecutive AFC Championship Game appearances and four Super Bowl appearances since becoming the team's starting quarterback in 2018. He is one of five quarterbacks in NFL history to win three or more Super Bowls as a starter. Mahomes' career accolades through seven seasons in the NFL have earned him widespread praise from sports journalists,and he is considered to be one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time.
Roger Wayne Marshall is an American politician,physician,and former military officer serving as the junior United States senator from Kansas since 2021. A member of the Republican Party,he served from 2017 to 2021 as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 1st congressional district,a mostly rural district covering much of the western and northern parts of the state.
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