Robert Tyson (born September 29, 1940) is an American former politician who served for two 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 ...

, representing the 12th Senate district from 1997 to 2004. Born in

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, Tyson worked as a rancher in addition to his time in the Senate. He was the chair of

Bob Dole Robert Joseph Dole (July 22, 1923 – December 5, 2021) was an American politician and attorney who represented Kansas in the United States Senate from 1969 to 1996. He was the Republican Leader of the Senate during the final 11 years of his te ...

's first U.S. Senate campaign in 1968.

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