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- ↑ "1985 Award Winners - Emporia State University". www.emporia.edu. Retrieved 2023-02-11.
- ↑ Joan Wagnon (October 14, 2019). "Interview of Senator Lana Oleen - Main Bio". ksoralhistory.org. Kansas Oral History Project. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
- 1 2 3 4 Joan Wagnon (October 14, 2019). "Interview of Senator Lana Oleen - Transcript" (PDF). ksoralhistory.org. Kansas Oral History Project. Retrieved November 7, 2022.
- ↑ "Kansas Senate Majority Leader Arrested". Plainview Herald . February 24, 2003. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
- ↑ "Senate majority leader gets diversion for DUI". Lawrence Journal-World . October 19, 2003. Retrieved January 22, 2020.
