The Political Graveyard: Kansas: Governors

The Political
Graveyard

Kansas: Governors

Governors of Kansas, 1859-2006 (May be incomplete!)
Charles Robinson 1861-63 Thomas Carney 1863-65 Samuel Johnson Crawford 1865-68 Nehemiah Green 1868-69 James M. Harvey 1869-73 Thomas A. Osborn 1873-77 George Tobey Anthony 1877-79 John P. St. John 1879-83 George Washington Glick 1883-85 John A. Martin 1885-89 Lyman Underwood Humphrey 1889-93 Lorenzo Dow Lewelling 1893-95 Edmund N. Morrill 1895-97 John Whitnah Leedy 1897-99 William Eugene Stanley 1899-1903 Willis J. Bailey 1903-05 Edward Wallis Hoch 1905-09 Walter Roscoe Stubbs 1909-13 George H. Hodges 1913-15 Arthur Capper 1915-19 Henry J. Allen 1919-23 Jonathan M. Davis 1923-25 Ben S. Paulen 1925-29 Clyde M. Reed 1929-31 Harry H. Woodring 1931-33 Alf M. Landon 1933-37 Walter Huxman 1937-39 Payne Ratner 1939-43 Andrew F. Schoeppel 1943-47 Frank Carlson 1947-50 Frank L. Hagaman 1950-51 Edward F. Arn 1951-55 Fred Hall 1955-57 John McCuish 1957 George Docking 1957-61 John Anderson, Jr. 1961-65 William H. Avery 1965-67 Robert B. Docking 1967-75 Robert F. Bennett 1975-79 John W. Carlin 1979-87 Mike Hayden 1987-91 Joan Finney 1991-95 Bill Graves 1995-2003 Kathleen Sebelius 2003-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1859: Samuel Medary, defeated.

1862: W. R. Wagstaff, defeated.

1864: Solon O. Thatcher, defeated.

1866: J. L. McDowell, defeated.

1868: George Washington Glick, defeated.

1868 Nov 4: Samuel Johnson Crawford, resigned.

1870: Isaac Sharp, defeated.

1872: Thaddeus H. Walker, defeated.

1874: James C. Cusey, defeated.

1876: John Martin (Dem), defeated.

1880: Edmund G. Ross, defeated.

1886: Thomas Moonlight, defeated.

1888: Jeremiah D. Botkin (Prohibition), defeated; John Martin (Dem), defeated.

1898: William A. Peffer (Prohibition), defeated.

1902: William Henry Craddock (Dem), defeated.

1908: Jeremiah D. Botkin (Dem), defeated.

1920: Jonathan M. Davis (Dem), defeated.

1924: Harry B. Burton (Dem), defeated.

1926: Jonathan M. Davis (Dem), defeated.

1928: Chauncey B. Little, defeated.

1936: Jonathan M. Davis (Dem), defeated in primary.

1938: Jonathan M. Davis (Ind), defeated.

1950 Nov 28: Frank Carlson, resigned.

1957 Jan 3: Fred Hall, resigned.

1958: Clyde M. Reed, Jr., defeated.

1978: Robert F. Bennett (Rep), defeated.

1990: John W. Carlin (Dem), defeated in primary.

1994: Jim Slattery (Dem), defeated.

2002: Robert G. Knight (Rep), defeated in primary.

"Enjoy the hospitable entertainment of a political graveyard."
Henry L. Clinton, Apollo Hall, New York City, February 3, 1872

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