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Kansas's 12th Senate District
Kansas's 12th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Caryn Tyson since 2013. Geography District 12 covers Allen County, Kansas, Allen, Anderson County, Kansas, Anderson, Franklin County, Kansas, Franklin, and Linn County, Kansas, Linn Counties and parts of Bourbon County, Kansas, Bourbon and Miami County, Kansas, Miami Counties along the eastern edge of the state. Communities in the district include Ottawa, Kansas, Ottawa, Iola, Kansas, Iola, Osawatomie, Kansas, Osawatomie, Garnett, Kansas, Garnett, Humboldt, Kansas, Humboldt, Wellsville, Kansas, Wellsville, and Pleasanton, Kansas, Pleasanton. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 2nd congressional district, and overlaps with the 2nd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 9th, and 59th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. It borders the state of Missouri. Recent election results 2020 2016 2012 Federal and state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas Senate District 12 (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 debate. When i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
