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Don Montgomery
Donald L. Montgomery (July 23, 1931–December 7, 2020) was an American politician who spent three terms in the Kansas State Senate The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members o ..., serving from 1981 to 1992. References 1931 births 2020 deaths Kansas Republicans 20th-century American legislators People from Sabetha, Kansas Republican Party Kansas state senators {{Kansas-politician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 21st Senate District
Kansas's 21st Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Dinah Sykes since 2017; Sykes was first elected as a Republican Party (United States), Republican but switched parties in 2018. Geography District 21 is based in Lenexa, Kansas, Lenexa in the Johnson County, Kansas, Johnson County suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City, covering the vast majority of that city as well as smaller parts of Overland Park, Kansas, Overland Park and Shawnee, Kansas, Shawnee. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 3rd congressional district, and overlaps with the 14th, 16th, 17th, 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 30th, and 121st districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and statewide results in District 21 References {{Kansas State Senators Kansas Senate districts, 21 Johnson County, Kansas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janice Hardenburger
Janice Congleton Hardenburger (February 26, 1932–August 31, 2000) was an American politician who spent eight years in the Kansas State Senate. Hardenburger was born in Haddam, Kansas, and lived there throughout her service in the State Senate. She married William Joseph Hardenburger in 1952 and the couple jointly operated a farm. Hardenburger successfully ran for State Senate in 1992, and was re-elected in 1996. She chaired the Senate Committee on Elections and Local Government. In the summer of 2000, she dropped out of her re-election race following a diagnosis of lung cancer Lung cancer, also known as lung carcinoma (since about 98–99% of all lung cancers are carcinomas), is a malignant lung tumor characterized by uncontrolled cell growth in tissue (biology), tissues of the lung. Lung carcinomas derive from tran ...; she died of the disease in late August. References 1932 births 2000 deaths Deaths from lung cancer in Kansas 20th-century American legislator ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Republican Party (United States)
The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP ("Grand Old Party"), is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States. The GOP was founded in 1854 by anti-slavery activists who opposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act, which allowed for the potential expansion of chattel slavery into the western territories. Since Ronald Reagan's presidency in the 1980s, conservatism has been the dominant ideology of the GOP. It has been the main political rival of the Democratic Party since the mid-1850s. The Republican Party's intellectual predecessor is considered to be Northern members of the Whig Party, with Republican presidents Abraham Lincoln, Rutherford B. Hayes, Chester A. Arthur, and Benjamin Harrison all being Whigs before switching to the party, from which they were elected. The collapse of the Whigs, which had previously been one of the two major parties in the country, strengthened the party's electoral success. Upon its founding, it supported c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabetha, Kansas
Sabetha is a city in Brown and Nemaha counties in the U.S. state of Kansas. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 2,545. History The town's settlement began circa 1854, with a name reportedly derived from the word "Sabbath", the day the first settler arrived.Hrnicek, Alice (15 September 1982)Business, farming strengthen town ''St. Joseph Gazette'', pg. C1. Sabetha was incorporated as a city in 1874. On the evening of June 13, 1998, an F2 tornado damaged much of the downtown, but no casualties were reported. The downtown area received little warning as the tornado struck less than 1 minute after the tornado siren began to sound.(15 June 1998)Twister rips up downtown Sabetha ''Lawrence Journal-World'', Page 1B The tornado, which touched down half a mile west of the Sabetha City Hall, caused serious damage to two blocks of the town, with 18 buildings in the downtown area being damaged, five (including the city hall building) to near "the point of loss". The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas State Senate
The Kansas Senate is the upper house of the Kansas Legislature, the state legislature of the U.S. State of Kansas. It is composed of 40 senators elected from single-member districts, each with a population of at least 60,000 inhabitants. Members of the Senate are elected to a four-year term. There is no limit to the number of terms that a senator may serve. The Kansas Senate meets at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka. Like other upper houses of state and territorial legislatures and the federal U.S. Senate, the Senate is reserved with special functions such as confirming or rejecting gubernatorial appointments to executive departments, the state cabinet, commissions and boards. History The Kansas Senate was created by the Kansas Constitution when Kansas became the 34th state of United States on January 29, 1861. Six days after its admission into the Union, the Confederate States of America formed between seven Southern states that had seceded from the United States in the prev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020 Deaths
This is a list of deaths of notable people, organised by year. New deaths articles are added to their respective month (e.g., Deaths in ) and then linked here. 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995 1994 1993 1992 1991 1990 1989 1988 1987 See also * Lists of deaths by day The following pages, corresponding to the Gregorian calendar, list the historical events, births, deaths, and holidays and observances of the specified day of the year: Footnotes See also * Leap year * List of calendars * List of non-standard ... * Deaths by year {{DEFAULTSORT:deaths by year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Republicans
Kansas () is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its Capital city, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its largest city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita. Kansas is a landlocked state bordered by Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, which in turn was named after the Kaw people, Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. The List of federally recognized tribes, tribe's name (natively ') is often said to mean "people of the (south) wind" although this was probably not the term's original meaning. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Plains Indians, Native American tribes. Tribes in the eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. The first Euro-American settlement in Kansas oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
People From Sabetha, Kansas
A person ( : people) is a being that has certain capacities or attributes such as reason, morality, consciousness or self-consciousness, and being a part of a culturally established form of social relations such as kinship, ownership of property, or legal responsibility. The defining features of personhood and, consequently, what makes a person count as a person, differ widely among cultures and contexts. In addition to the question of personhood, of what makes a being count as a person to begin with, there are further questions about personal identity and self: both about what makes any particular person that particular person instead of another, and about what makes a person at one time the same person as they were or will be at another time despite any intervening changes. The plural form "people" is often used to refer to an entire nation or ethnic group (as in "a people"), and this was the original meaning of the word; it subsequently acquired its use as a plural form of per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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