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2015 Wichita Mayoral Election
The 2015 Wichita mayoral election took place on April 7, 2015, to elect the List of mayors of Wichita, Kansas, mayor of Wichita, Kansas. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections, and is officially nonpartisan. Incumbent mayor Carl Brewer (politician), Carl Brewer, a Democratic Party (United States), Democrat, was term-limited and could not seek a third term in office. A primary election was held on March 3, 2015, to decide the two candidates that moved on to the general election. City council member Jeff Longwell defeated retired business executive Sam Williams to become the next mayor. Primary election Candidates * Robert Culver, metal worker * Sean Hatfield, attorney * Dan Heflin, product engineer * Frances Jackson, retired director * Jeff Longwell, city council member for District 5 * Tony Rosales, businessman * Tracy Stewart, banker * Lavonta Williams, city council member for District 1 * Sam Williams, retired business executive and accountant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Longwell, Mayor Of Wichita, Reads Proclamation For Wichita Navy Week (4) (cropped)
Jeff is a masculine name, often a short form (hypocorism) of the English given name Jefferson (given name), Jefferson or Jeffrey (given name), Jeffrey, which comes from a Middle Ages, medieval variant of Geoffrey (given name), Geoffrey. Music * DJ Jazzy Jeff, American DJ/turntablist record producer Jeffrey Allen Townes * Excision (musician), Canadian dubstep producer and DJ Jeff Abel * Jeff Abercrombie, bassist for American rock band Fuel * Jeff Allen (musician), Jeff Allen, English session drummer * Jeff Baxter, American guitarist for rock bands Steely Dan and The Doobie Brothers * Jeff Beal (born 1963), American composer of music for various media * Jeff Beck, electric guitarist * Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter * Jeff Coffin, saxophonist, bandleader, composer and educator * Jeff Current, lead singer of American alternative rock band Against All Will * Jeff Fatt, Australian musician and actor, formerly with the children's band The Wiggles * Jeff Gillan, an American jo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeff Longwell
Jeff Longwell (born June 15, 1960) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 101st mayor of Wichita, Kansas from 2015 to 2020. Prior to his election as mayor, Longwell served eight years on the Wichita city council and twelve years on the Maize school board. Controversy Longwell was accused of steering an over $500 million new drinking water facility project to his golfing friends in the ''Wichita Eagle'' on September 29, 2019, casting the deciding vote of the City Council.Wichita’s mayor steered multi-million-dollar water plant contract to friends '''', Chance Swaim, September 29, 2019. Retri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Brewer (politician)
Carl Brewer (March 8, 1957June 12, 2020) was an American politician who served as the 100th mayor of Wichita, Kansas, and was the city's first elected black mayor. He was elected to the mayoralty in 2007 and reelected in 2011. He was a member of the Democratic Party and ran for the party's gubernatorial nomination in 2018. Early life and education Carl Brewer was born on March 8, 1957, in Wichita, Kansas. In 1975, he graduated from North High School and briefly attended Friends University. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in criminal justice from Southern University. From 1977 to 1998, he served in the Kansas Army National Guard and retired as a captain. In 1980, Brewer married Cathy Brewer and the couple had four children. Career From 2001 to 2007, Brewer served in the Wichita city council from District 1. In 2004, he ran in a special election to replace state senator Rip Gooch, but was defeated by Donald Betts. In 2007, he was elected mayor of Wichita becoming the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Mayors Of Wichita, Kansas
List of Mayors Following is a list of mayors of the American city of Wichita, Kansas. # Edwin Bird Allen (1871–1872) # James G. Hope (1873–1874) #George E. Harris (1875) # James G. Hope (1876–1877) # William Greiffenstein (1878) # Sol H. Kohn (1879) # William Greiffenstein (1879–1884) # Benajah W. Aldrich (1885–1886) #Joseph P. Allen (1887–1888) # George W. Clement (1889–1890) # John B. Carey (1891–1892) # Lindley Murray Cox (1893–1896) # Finlay Ross (1897–1900) # Benjamin Franklin McLean (1901–1904) # Finlay Ross (1905–1906) # John H. Graham (1907–1908) # Charles Lock Davidson (1909–1910) # William Walter Minick (1911–1912) #William Jasper Babb (1913–1914) # Orsemus Hills Bentley (1915–1916) # Lewis William Clapp (1917–1919) # John Lee Powell (1919–1920) # Wallace C. Kemp (1921–1922) #George Henry Hamilton (1922) #William Coffin Coleman (1922–1923) # Benjamin Franklin McLean (1923–1924) #Frank Leslie Dunn (1924–1925) # Ben F. Copley (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita ( ) is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Sedgwick County, Kansas, Sedgwick County. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 397,532. The Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610 in 2020. It is located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River. Wichita began as a trading post on the Chisholm Trail in the 1860s and was incorporated as a city in 1870. It became a destination for Cattle drives in the United States, cattle drives traveling north from Texas to Kansas railroads, earning it the nickname "Cowtown".Miner, Prof. Craig (Wichita State Univ. Dept. of History), ''Wichita: The Magic City'', Wichita Historical Museum Association, Wichita, KS, 1988Howell, Angela and Peg Vines, ''The Insider's Guide to Wichita'', Wichita Eagle & Beacon Publishing, Wichita, KS, 1995 Wyatt Earp served as a police officer in Wichita for around one year before going to Dodge City, Kansas, Dodge City. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. Founded in 1828, it was predominantly built by Martin Van Buren, who assembled a wide cadre of politicians in every state behind war hero Andrew Jackson, making it the world's oldest active political party.M. Philip Lucas, "Martin Van Buren as Party Leader and at Andrew Jackson's Right Hand." in ''A Companion to the Antebellum Presidents 1837–1861'' (2014): 107–129."The Democratic Party, founded in 1828, is the world's oldest political party" states Its main political rival has been the Republican Party since the 1850s. The party is a big tent, and though it is often described as liberal, it is less ideologically uniform than the Republican Party (with major individuals within it frequently holding widely different political views) due to the broader list of unique voting blocs that compose it. The historical predecessor of the Democratic Party is considered to be th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita Business Journal
American City Business Journals, Inc. (ACBJ) is an American newspaper publisher based in Charlotte, North Carolina. ACBJ publishes The Business Journals, which contains local business news for 44 markets in the United States, Hemmings Motor News, Street & Smith's Sports Business Daily, and Inside Lacrosse. The company is owned by Advance Publications. The company receives revenue from display advertising and classified advertising in its weekly newspaper and online advertising on its website and from a subscription business model. The bizjournals.com website contains local business news from various cities in the United States, along with an archive that contains more than 5 million business news articles published since 1996. As of August 2021, it receives over 3.6 million readers each week. History The company was founded in 1982 by Mike Russell with the launch of the Kansas City Business Journal. In 1985, the company became a public company via an initial public offering and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wichita Eagle
''The Wichita Eagle'' is a daily newspaper published in Wichita, Kansas, United States. It is owned by The McClatchy Company and is the largest newspaper in Wichita and the surrounding area. History Origins In 1870, ''The Vidette'' was the first newspaper established in Wichita by Fred A. Sowers and W. B. Hutchinson. It operated briefly. On April 12, 1872, ''The Wichita Eagle'' was founded and edited by Marshall M. Murdock, and it became a daily paper in May 1884. His son, Victor Murdock, was a reporter for the paper during his teens, the managing editor from 1894 to 1903, an editor from the mid-1920s until his death in 1945. In October 1872, ''The Wichita Daily Beacon'' was founded by Fred A. Sowers and David Millison. It published daily for two months, then weekly until 1884 when it went back to daily. In 1907, Henry Allen purchased the ''Beacon'' and was publisher for many years. Mergers The ''Eagle'' and ''Beacon'' competed for 88 years, then in 1960 the ''Eagle'' p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Governors Of Kansas
The governor of Kansas is the head of state of KansasKS Const. art. I, § 3. and the commander-in-chief of the state's Kansas National Guard, military forces. The governor has a duty to enforce state laws, and the power to either approve or veto bills passed by the Kansas Legislature, to convene the legislature at any time, and to grant pardons. The governor has a 4-year term, commencing on the second Monday of January after election.KS Const. art. I, § 1. The governor originally had a 2-year term; this was changed to four years by a constitutional amendment in 1974. The lieutenant governor is elected at the same time as the governor. When the office of governor becomes vacant for any reason, the lieutenant governor becomes governor for the remainder of the term. Since becoming a state, Kansas has had 48 governors. The state's longest-serving governors were Robert Docking, John W. Carlin, and Bill Graves, each of whom served 8 years and 4 days (Docking served ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Gubernatorial Election, 2014
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. Incumbent Republican Governor Sam Brownback ran for re-election to a second term. He was opposed in the general election by Democrat Paul Davis, the Minority Leader of the Kansas House of Representatives, and Libertarian attorney Keen Umbehr. The election was viewed as a referendum on Brownback's aggressive tax cutting initiatives and his conservative values. The consensus among ''The Cook Political Report'', ''Governing'', ''The Rothenberg Political Report'', ''Sabato's Crystal Ball'', ''Daily Kos Elections'', and others was that the contest was a tossup. Brownback won the election by a margin of 3.7%. Davis carried seven counties, all in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert G
The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honour, praise, renown" and ''berht'' "bright, light, shining"). It is the second most frequently used given name of ancient Germanic origin. It is also in use as a surname. Another commonly used form of the name is Rupert. After becoming widely used in Continental Europe it entered England in its Old French form ''Robert'', where an Old English cognate form (''Hrēodbēorht'', ''Hrodberht'', ''Hrēodbēorð'', ''Hrœdbœrð'', ''Hrœdberð'', ''Hrōðberχtŕ'') had existed before the Norman Conquest. The feminine version is Roberta. The Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish form is Roberto. Robert is also a common name in many Germanic languages, including English, German, Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Scots, Danish, and Icelandic. It can be use ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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