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Treasurer | Democrat | Joan Finney on Wikipedia Joan Finney on OurCampaigns.com

Secretary of State | Republican | GRAVES, WILLIAM JORDAN, a Representative from Kentucky; born in New Castle, Ky., in 1805; pursued an academic course; studied law; was admitted to the bar and practiced; member of the State house of representatives in 1834; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Whig… Continue reading Bill Graves

Attorney General | Republican | ANDERSON, JOHN ALEXANDER, a Representative from Kansas; born near Pigeon Creek, Washington County, Pa., June 26, 1834; attended public and private schools; was graduated from Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, in 1853; ordained a Presbyterian minister in 1857 and began preaching in Stockton, Calif.; elected trustee of the State insane asylum… Continue reading John Anderson, Jr.

Representative | Republican | CARLSON, FRANK, a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Concordia, Cloud County, Kans., January 23, 1893; attended the public schools, Concordia (Kans.) Normal and Business College, and Kansas State College at Manhattan; during the First World War served as a private in the United States Army 1918-1919; engaged in… Continue reading Frank Carlson

Representative | Populist | SIMPSON, JEREMIAH (JERRY), a Representative from Kansas; born on Prince Edward Island, Canada, March 31, 1842; moved with his parents to Oneida County, N.Y., in 1848; attended the public schools; at the age of fourteen became a sailor and followed nautical pursuits from 1856 to 1879; served in the Civil War… Continue reading Sockless Jerry Simpson

Representative | Republican | REES, EDWARD HERBERT, a Representative from Kansas; born on a farm near Emporia, Lyon County, Kans., June 3, 1886; attended the public schools and the Kansas State Teachers’ College at Emporia; taught school in Lyon County, Kans., 1909-1911; clerk of the court of Lyon County, Kans., 1912-1918; studied law; was admitted… Continue reading Edward Rees

Representative | Republican | ROBERTS, CHARLES PATRICK (PAT), a Senator and a Representative from Kansas; born in Topeka, Kans., April 20, 1936; attended the public schools; graduated from Holton High School 1954; B.A., Kansas State University, Manhattan 1958; served in the U.S. Marine Corps as a captain 1958-1962; newspaper publisher, Litchfield Park, Ariz. 1962-1967; administrative… Continue reading Pat Roberts

Representative | Republican | BROWNBACK, SAM DALE, a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Kans., September 12, 1956; grew up on his family’s farm near Parker, Kans., and graduated from Prairie View High School, Linn County, Kans.; graduated from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans., in 1979; received law degree from University of… Continue reading Sam Brownback