Related Research Articles
Kansas is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Kansas is a landlocked state which 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.
Topeka is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County,in northeast Kansas,in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census,the population of the city was 126,587. The Topeka metropolitan statistical area,which includes Shawnee,Jackson,Jefferson,Osage,and Wabaunsee Counties,had a population of 233,870 in the 2010 census.
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 with acknowledged non-European ancestry to reach either of the highest offices in the federal executive branch.
Fred Waldron Phelps Sr. was an American minister and disbarred lawyer who served as the pastor of the Westboro Baptist Church,worked as a civil rights attorney,and ran for statewide election in Kansas. A divisive and controversial figure,he gained national attention for his homophobic views and protests near the funerals of gay people,AIDS victims,military veterans,and disaster victims who he believed were killed as a result of God punishing the U.S. for having "bankrupt values" and tolerating homosexuality.
Karl Augustus Menninger was an American psychiatrist and a member of the Menninger family of psychiatrists who founded the Menninger Foundation and the Menninger Clinic in Topeka,Kansas.
Washburn University (WU),formally Washburn University of Topeka,is a public university in Topeka,Kansas,United States. It offers undergraduate and graduate programs,as well as professional programs in law and business. Washburn has 550 faculty members,who teach more than 6,100 undergraduate students and nearly 800 graduate students. The university's assets include a $158 million endowment. As of 2008,Washburn also took over overseeing the technical school in the area,Washburn Tech.
Harry Hines Woodring was an American politician. A Democrat,he was the 25th Governor of Kansas and the United States Assistant Secretary of War from 1933 to 1936. His most important role was Secretary of War in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's cabinet from 1936 to 1940. After 1938,Roosevelt rejected isolationism regarding Europe. Woodring quietly opposed Roosevelt and was eventually fired.
KTWU is a PBS member television station in Topeka,Kansas,United States,owned by Washburn University. The station's studios are located on the western edge of the Washburn University campus at 19th Street and Jewell Avenue in central Topeka,and its transmitter is located on Wanamaker Road on the city's northwest side.
John Henry Outland was an American football player and coach. He played football at Penn College in Oskaloosa,Iowa,the University of Kansas,and the University of Pennsylvania. He was twice named an All-American while playing for the Penn Quakers,in 1897 as a tackle and in 1898 as a halfback. After playing,Outland coached at Franklin &Marshall College in 1900,the University of Kansas in 1901,Haskell Institute in 1902 and 1906,and Washburn University from 1904 to 1905,compiling a career college football record of 21–15–2. He is the namesake of the Outland Trophy,an annual award established in 1946 and given to the best interior lineman in college football. Outland was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a player in 2001.
Topeka Regional Airport,formerly known as Forbes Field,is a joint civil-military public airport owned by the Metropolitan Topeka Airport Authority in Shawnee County,Kansas,seven miles south of downtown Topeka,the capital city of Kansas. The National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 called it a general aviation airport.
KTMJ-CD is a low-power,Class A television station in Topeka,Kansas,United States,affiliated with the Fox network. It is owned by Nexstar Media Group alongside NBC affiliate KSNT;Nexstar also provides certain services to dual ABC/CW+ affiliate KTKA-TV under joint sales and shared services agreements (JSA/SSA) with Vaughan Media,LLC. The stations share studios on Northwest 25th Street,near the unincorporated community of Kiro;KTMJ-CD's transmitter is located along Southwest West Union Road west of Topeka.
The Kansas Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the state of Kansas and one of two major parties in the state,alongside the Republicans. The chair of the party is Jeanna Repass.
The Amarillo Wranglers are a Tier II junior ice hockey team in the North American Hockey League's South Division. The team's home arena is the Amarillo Civic Center in Amarillo,Texas.
Anthony Hensley is a former Democratic member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 19th district since 1992. He was the Minority Leader from 1996 through 2021 and has also been a committeeman of the Democratic Precinct since 1976. In 1992,he was the Majority Whip. From 1977 to 1992,he was a Representative. In 1991 and 1992,he was the chairman of the 2nd District Democratic Committee and from 1981 to 1986,he was the chairman of the Shawnee County Democratic Central Committee. On November 3,2020,he was defeated in his re-election campaign by Republican Rick Kloos.
The Topeka Sizzlers,originally the Kansas City Sizzlers,were a professional basketball team based in Kansas City,Missouri from 1985 to 1986 until they relocated to Topeka,Kansas where they played from 1986 to 1990. The Sizzlers were members of the Continental Basketball Association (CBA).
The 2016 United States Senate election in Kansas was held on November 8,2016,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Kansas,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. The primaries were held on August 2.
J. Basil Dannebohm is a former Republican member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing District 113. He was the only non-incumbent to run unopposed during the 2014 election.
Steven Charles Watkins Jr. is an American politician and former military officer. He served as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 2019 to 2021. He is a member of the Republican Party,and was succeeded by Jake LaTurner. He earned degrees from the United States Military Academy at West Point,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.),and Harvard.
References
- ↑ "2012 voters guide: John Alcala". Archived from the original on April 2, 2015. Retrieved March 24, 2015.
