United States Senators from Kansas - Bob Dole, Charles Curtis, Sam Brownback, Pat Roberts, List of United States Senators from Kansas (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 31. Chapters: Bob Dole, Charles Curtis, Sam Brownback, Pat Roberts, List of United States Senators from Kansas, Jerry Moran, James B. Pearson, James Henry Lane, Samuel C. Pomeroy, Edmund G. Ross, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, Joseph R. Burton, William Alexander Harris, Arthur Capper, Frank Carlson, Preston B. Plumb, Andrew Frank Schoeppel, James M. Harvey, William A. Peffer, Robert Crozier, Henry Justin Allen, John James Ingalls, Clyde M. Reed, Harry Darby, Chester I. Long, William Howard Thompson, George McGill, John Martin, Bishop W. Perkins, Sheila Frahm, Joseph L. Bristow, Alexander Caldwell, Alfred W. Benson, Lucien Baker. Excerpt: Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is the 46th and current Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011, and as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 1996. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 presidential election, withdrawing before the primaries. Sam Brownback was born in Garnett, Kansas to Nancy and Robert Brownback. He was raised in a farming family in Parker, Kansas; his ancestors, of German descent, settled in Kansas after leaving Pennsylvania following the Civil War. Brownback was state president of the Kansas FFA Association, and was one of the national vice presidents of the National FFA Organization from 1976 to 1977. While at Kansas State University, he was elected student body president and was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1982. After college, Brownback spent approximately a year working as a broadcaster; he hosted a weekly half-hour show. He is married to the former Mary Stauffer, whose family owned and sold a successful media company in 1995. They have five children, Abby, Andy...