The Political Graveyard: Kansas: Secretaries of State

Kansas: Secretaries of State

Kansas Secretaries of State, 1861-2004 (May be incomplete!)
John Winter Robinson 1861-62 Sanders R. Shepherd 1862-63 Warren Wirt Henry Lawrence 1863-65 Rinaldo Allen Barker 1865-69 Thomas Moonlight 1869-71 William Hillary Smallwood 1871-75 Thomas Horne Cavanaugh 1875-79 James Smith 1879-85 Edwin B. Allen 1885-89 William Higgins 1889-93 Russell Scott Osborn 1893-95 William Congdon Edwards 1895-97 William Eben Bush 1897-99 George A. Clark 1899-1903 Joel Randall Burrow 1903-07 Charles Eugene Denton 1907-11 Charles H. Sessions 1911-15 J. T. Botkin 1915-19 L. J. Pettijohn 1919-22 D. O. McCray 1922-23 Frank J. Ryan 1923-29 E. A. Cornell 1929-33 Frank J. Ryan 1933-49 Larry Ryan 1949-51 Paul R. Shanahan 1951-66 Elwill M. Shanahan 1966-78 Jack H. Brier 1978-87 Bill Graves 1987-95 Ron Thornburgh 1995-

Events and Candidates (may be incomplete!)

1862 Jul 28: John Winter Robinson, resigned.

1886: Lorenzo Dow Lewelling, defeated.

1922 Nov 11: L. J. Pettijohn, resigned.

1922 Nov 14: D. O. McCray, appointed.

1966 Apr 14: Paul R. Shanahan, died in office.

1966 Apr 28: Elwill M. Shanahan, appointed.

1978 May 10: Elwill M. Shanahan, resigned.

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