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Kansas's 1st Senate District
Kansas's 1st Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Independent (United States), Independent Dennis Pyle since 2005. Geography District 1 is based in the northeastern corner of the state, covering all of Atchison County, Kansas, Atchison, Brown County, Kansas, Brown, Doniphan County, Kansas, Doniphan, Jackson County, Kansas, Jackson, Marshall County, Kansas, Marshall, Nemaha County, Kansas, Nemaha, and Pottawatomie County, Kansas, Pottawatomie Counties. Communities in the district include Atchison, Kansas, Atchison, Holton, Kansas, Holton, Hiawatha, Kansas, Hiawatha, Sabetha, Kansas, Sabetha, Seneca, Kansas, Seneca, Horton, Kansas, Horton, Wathena, Kansas, Wathena, Troy, Kansas, Troy, Elwood, Kansas, Elwood, and a small part of Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan. The district overlaps with Kansas's Kansas's 1st congressional district, 1st and Kansas's 2nd congressional district, 2nd congressional districts, and with the 51st, 61st, 62nd, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Senate District 1 (2010)
Kansas () is a state in the Midwestern United States. Its capital is Topeka, and its largest city is 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 Kansa Native Americans who lived along its banks. The 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 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 occurred in 1827 at Fort Leavenworth. The pace of settlement accelerated in the 1850s, in the midst of political wars over the slavery deb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
