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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.
Robert Blackwell Docking was an American businessman and politician from Kansas who served as the 38th governor of Kansas from 1967 until 1975. A conservative Democrat in a heavily Republican state,Docking is to date Kansas's only governor to serve four terms.
John William Carlin is an American educator and politician who served as the 40th governor of Kansas from 1979 to 1987,and the archivist of the United States from May 30,1995,to February 15,2005. He is a member of the Democratic Party. Carlin teaches at Kansas State University as a visiting professor and previously operated a website to advance civic engagement.
Joan Marie Finney was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of Kansas from 1991 to 1995. Prior to her tenure as governor,Finney served four terms as the Kansas state treasurer from 1975 to 1991. Finney was the first woman to hold either office.
James A. McClinton is a Kansas politician,originally from Milwaukee,Wisconsin,and former mayor of Topeka,Kansas who served only a portion of his term from January 2004 to April 2005. He was appointed by the city council to replace Butch Felker,who resigned amid a campaign finance scandal. McClinton had previously served on the city council from 1991 to 1993 and from 1997 to 2001. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
Mark Vincent Parkinson is an American businessman and former politician serving as head of the American Health Care Association (AHCA) and National Center for Assisted Living (NCAL). He served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Kansas from 2007 to 2009 and the 45th governor of Kansas from 2009 until 2011. He was also a state legislator.
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Jeffrey William Colyer is an American surgeon and politician who served as the 47th governor of Kansas from January 31,2018,to January 14,2019. A member of the Republican Party,he was the 49th lieutenant governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. Colyer served in the Kansas House of Representatives from 2007 to 2009 and the Kansas Senate from 2009 to 2011. He assumed the governorship when Sam Brownback resigned to become United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Colyer ran for a full term as governor in 2018,but narrowly lost the Republican primary to Kansas secretary of state Kris Kobach,who in turn lost the general election to Democratic nominee Laura Kelly.
Chris Biggs is an American lawyer and politician who was the 30th Secretary of State of Kansas. He was appointed on March 16,2010,by Governor Mark Parkinson to replace Ron Thornburgh who resigned on February 15,2010. On Nov. 2nd,2010,he was defeated for election to a full term by a wide margin.
The 2014 Kansas gubernatorial election took place on November 4,2014,to elect the governor of Kansas,concurrently with the election of Kansas' Class II U.S. Senate seat,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.
Chad Taylor is an American politician and attorney,who served as the District Attorney of Shawnee County,Kansas from 2009-17. He was nominated to run for United States Senate in the 2014 election for the Democratic Party,but withdrew from the race on September 3,2014.
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Kelechi "KC" Ohaebosim is a Nigerian-American politician. He has served as a Democratic member for the 89th district in the Kansas House of Representatives since 2017. Ohaebosim's district comprises portions of Wichita,Kansas.
Lynn Wayne Rogers is an American politician and businessman who served as the 41st Kansas State Treasurer from 2021 to 2023. He previously served as the 51st lieutenant governor of Kansas from 2019 to 2021. A Democrat,he had previously served on the board of Wichita Public Schools from 2001 to 2017,and in the Kansas Senate representing the 25th district in west Wichita from 2017 to 2019.
Michelle De La Isla is an American politician who served as the mayor of Topeka,Kansas from 2018 to 2022. She previously served on the Topeka City Council from 2013 to 2018. De La Isla was the city's first Latina and single mother to serve as mayor. She was the Democratic nominee for Kansas's 2nd congressional district in the 2020 election,but lost.
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- ↑ "Topeka - Directory of Public Officials". The League of Kansas Municipalities. Archived from the original on 2013-11-03.
- ↑ "AP via the Lawrence Journal-World of January 22, 1986". 1986-01-22. Retrieved 2013-11-05.
