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.
Lynn Haag Jenkins is an American politician and lobbyist who served as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district,in office from 2009 to 2019. She previously served as Kansas State Treasurer from 2003 to 2008,in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1999 to 2000 and the Kansas Senate from 2000 to 2002. She is a member of the Republican Party.
Derek Larkin Schmidt is an American lawyer and politician who served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican,Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate,where he represented the 15th district from 2001 to 2011,and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the state attorney general in 2011,after he defeated incumbent Democrat Stephen Six in the November 2010 elections and joined other Republican states' attorneys general in suing to block many Obama administration policies. In 2020,after Republican President Donald Trump was defeated by Joe Biden but refused to acknowledge defeat,Schmidt joined a failed legal effort to overturn the election results.
Dianne I. Primavera is an American politician who is the 50th lieutenant governor of Colorado. A Democrat,she previously served as the Colorado State Representative for the 33rd district from 2007 to 2011,and again from 2013 to 2017. Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jared Polis selected Primavera as his running mate,in the 2018 Colorado gubernatorial election.
Oletha A. Goudeau is a Democratic member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 29th district since 2009—the first African-American woman in the Kansas Senate. Most recently,she is the Senate Assistant Minority Leader.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Kansas took place on November 2,2010,alongside other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Sam Brownback did not seek a third term,but instead successfully ran for Governor of Kansas. Republican nominee Jerry Moran won the open seat.
Laura Jeanne Kelly is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 48th governor of Kansas. A member of the Democratic Party,she represented the 18th district in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2019. Kelly was elected governor in 2018,defeating Republican nominee Kris Kobach. She was reelected in 2022,narrowly defeating Republican nominee Derek Schmidt.
Raymond F. Merrick is a Republican former member of the Kansas House of Representatives,representing district 27 from 2013 to 2017. He was elected Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives in December 2012.
James Ward is a Democratic former member of the Kansas House of Representatives,who represented the 86th district from 2013 to 2021. He was first elected to seat 88 in 2003 and served as the House Minority Leader from 2017 to 2019,succeeded by Representative Tom Sawyer as of January 14,2019. Ward ran for the 28th district of the Kansas Senate against incumbent Mike Petersen but was defeated.
Ty Masterson is a Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 16th district since 2009. From 2005 to 2008,he was a Representative in the Kansas House of Representatives. He lives in Andover and has served on the Andover City Council. In 2017,the American Conservative Union gave him a lifetime rating of 81%.
Vicki Schmidt is an American politician who is currently the Kansas Insurance Commissioner. She was a Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 20th district,from 2005 to 2019. She also served as the Senate Assistant Majority Leader from 2009 to 2012,and from 2017 to 2019. She was elected Kansas Insurance Commissioner in 2018,and reelected in 2022.
Dick Kelsey is a former Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 26th district from 2009 until 2013. He was previously a Kansas Representative elected in 2005.
Leslie D. "Les" Donovan,Sr. was a Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 27th district from 1997 to 2017. He was the Assistant Majority Leader in 2001 and was a delegate to the National Republican Convention in 2000. He was a Kansas Representative from 1992 to 1997.
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.
Garrett Love is an American Republican member of the Kansas Senate,representing the 38th district from 2011 until 2017. He has been given ratings of 67%,75% and 83% from the American Conservative Union.
A general election was held in the U.S. state of Kansas on November 4,2014. Primary elections were held on August 5.
John Carmichael is an American politician. He has served as a Democratic member for the 92nd district in the Kansas House of Representatives since 2013.
A special election was held on April 11,2017,to determine the member of the United States House of Representatives for Kansas's 4th congressional district after the incumbent,Mike Pompeo,resigned because of his nomination by President Donald Trump as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Republican Ron Estes received 52.2% of the vote and won,while runner-up Democrat James Thompson lost with 46% of the vote.
Brandon Whipple is an American politician and academic serving as mayor of Wichita,Kansas. He previously served as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 96th district,which included part of south Wichita and was the Ranking Minority member on the Higher Education Budget committee.
Beverly Gossage is an American politician,insurance agent,and former educator currently serving as a member of the Kansas Senate representing the 9th district in Johnson County,Kansas. A Republican,she was elected in 2020 to succeed retiring Senator Julia Lynn. Previously,she had unsuccessfully sought the Republican nomination for Kansas Insurance Commissioner in 2014.
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