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Kansas
Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named after the Kansas River, in turn named after the Kaw people, Kansa people. Its List of capitals in the United States, capital is Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, and its List of cities in Kansas, most populous city is Wichita, Kansas, Wichita; however, the largest urban area is the bi-state Kansas City metropolitan area split between Kansas and Missouri. For thousands of years, what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Plains Indians, Indigenous tribes. The first settlement of non-indigenous people 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 in the United States, slavery debate. When it was officially opened to settlement by the U.S. governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas City Metropolitan Area
The Kansas City metropolitan area is a bi-state metropolitan area anchored by Kansas City, Missouri. Its 14 counties straddle the border between the U.S. states of Missouri (9 counties) and Kansas (5 counties). With and a population of more than 2.2 million people, it is the second-largest metropolitan area centered in Missouri (after Greater St. Louis) and is the largest metropolitan area in Kansas, though Wichita is the largest metropolitan area centered in Kansas. Alongside Kansas City, Missouri, these are the suburbs with populations above 100,000: Overland Park, Kansas; Kansas City, Kansas; Olathe, Kansas; Independence, Missouri; and Lee's Summit, Missouri. Business enterprises and employers include Oracle (formerly Cerner Corp), AT&T Inc., AT&T, BNSF Railway, GEICO, Asurion, T-Mobile US, T-Mobile (formerly Sprint Corporation, Sprint), Black & Veatch, AMC Theatres, Citigroup, Garmin, Hallmark Cards, Macquarie Group, Waddell & Reed, H&R Block, General Motors Corporation, G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 1st Congressional District
Kansas's 1st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Commonly known as "The Big First", the district encompasses all or part of 60 counties spanning more than half of the state, making it the seventh-largest district in the nation that does not cover an entire state. Located within the district are Manhattan, Kansas, Manhattan, Salina, Kansas, Salina, Dodge City, Kansas, Dodge City, Garden City, Kansas, Garden City, Hays, Kansas, Hays, McPherson, Kansas, McPherson, Hutchinson, Kansas, Hutchinson, and Lawrence, Kansas, Lawrence. From 2011 to 2017, the district was represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Tim Huelskamp, who was originally elected in 2010 to succeed fellow Republican Jerry Moran, who in turn ran successfully for the United States Senate, U.S. Senate seat formerly held by Sam Brownback. Huelskamp was re-elected twice in 2012 and 2014 but lost the 2016 Republican primary for a fourth term to Obstetrics, obste ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas 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 about 73,000 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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 2nd Congressional District
Kansas' 2nd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas that covers most of the eastern part of the state, except for the core of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. The district encompasses less than a quarter of the state. The state capital of Topeka, Kansas, Topeka, the cities of Emporia, Kansas, Emporia, Junction City, Kansas, Junction City and Leavenworth, Kansas, Leavenworth and most of Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City are located within this district. The district is currently represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Derek Schmidt. History Kansas had but one representative in the U.S. House of Representatives until after the 1870 United States census, 1870 U.S. census, which showed that the state was entitled to three members of the lower branch of the national legislature. In 1872, three representatives-at-large were elected, but by the act of March 2, 1874, the legislature divided the state into three districts. The 2n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wichita, Kansas
Wichita ( ) is the List of cities in Kansas, most populous 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, and the Wichita metro area had a population of 647,610. It is located in south-central Kansas along 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, 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 In 1875, Wyatt Earp served as a police officer in Wichita for about one year before going to Dodge ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johnson County, Kansas
Johnson County is a County (United States), county in the U.S. state of Kansas, along the border of the state of Missouri. Its county seat is Olathe, Kansas, Olathe. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 609,863, making it the most populous county in Kansas. The county was named after Thomas Johnson (Kansas politician), Thomas Johnson, a Methodist missionary who was one of the state's first settlers. Largely suburban, the county contains a number of suburbs of Kansas City, Missouri, including Overland Park, Kansas, Overland Park, a principal city of and the second most populous city in the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. History This was part of the large territory of the Osage people, who occupied lands up to present-day Saint Louis, Missouri, St. Louis. After the Indian Removal, the United States government reserved much of this area as Indian territory for a reservation for the Shawnee people, who were relocated from east of the Mississi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 4th Congressional District
Kansas's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Based in the south central part of the state, the district encompasses the city of Wichita, Kansas, Wichita, the largest city in Kansas, three universities, Arkansas City, Kansas, Arkansas City, and the State of Kansas's only national airport. The 4th congressional district is historically a strongly Republican district,"Republicans' narrow win for Kansas seat embolden Democrats," April 12, 2017, PBS NewsHour, retrieved April 12, 2017Stirewalt, Chris, "A shocker in Wichita?," publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas House Of Representatives
The Kansas House of Representatives is the lower house of the legislature of the U.S. state of Kansas. Composed of 125 state representatives from districts with roughly equal populations of at least 19,000, its members are responsible for crafting and voting on legislation, helping to create a state budget, and legislative oversight over state agencies. Representatives are elected to two-year terms. The Kansas House of Representatives does not have term limits. The legislative session convenes at the Kansas State Capitol in Topeka annually. History On January 29, 1861, President James Buchanan authorized Kansas to become the 34th state of United States, a free state. The ratification of the Kansas Constitution created the Kansas House of Representatives as the lower house of the state legislature. Members of the Kansas House voted to impeach Governor Charles L. Robinson in 1862, but the impeachment trial did not lead to his conviction and removal of office. The Kansas Sena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kansas's 3rd Congressional District
Kansas's 3rd congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. Located in eastern Kansas, the district encompasses all of Anderson County, Kansas, Anderson, Franklin County, Kansas, Franklin, Johnson County, Kansas, Johnson and Miami County, Kansas, Miami counties and parts of Wyandotte County, Kansas, Wyandotte County. The district includes most of the Kansas side of the Kansas City metropolitan area, including all of Overland Park, Kansas, Overland Park, Leawood, Kansas, Leawood, Lenexa, Kansas, Lenexa, Shawnee, Kansas, Shawnee, Gardner, Kansas, Gardner, and Olathe, Kansas, Olathe and parts of Kansas City, Kansas, Kansas City. As currently drawn, the district is the wealthiest in the state. The 3rd district is represented by Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Sharice Davids, who was 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Kansas, first elected in 2018, defeating Republican Party (United States), Republican incumbent Kevin Y ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derek Schmidt
Derek Larkin Schmidt (born January 23, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the U.S. representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district since 2025. He previously served as the Kansas Attorney General from 2011 to 2023. A Republican Party (United States), Republican, Schmidt was first elected to office serving in the Kansas Senate, where he represented the Kansas's 15th Senate district, 15th district from 2001 to 2011, and served as Agriculture Committee chairman and Senate majority leader. Schmidt became the Attorney General of Kansas, state attorney general in 2011, after he defeated incumbent Democratic Party (United States), Democrat Stephen Six. Schmidt was the Republican nominee for List of governors of Kansas, governor of Kansas in the 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election, 2022 election, but narrowly lost to incumbent Democrat Laura Kelly. Early life and career Schmidt graduated from the University of Kansas with a bachelor's degree in 1990, received a ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Kelly
Laura Jeanne Kelly (born January 24, 1950)"Laura Kelly," ''Kansapedia,'' Kansas Historical Society, retrieved November 27, 2022 is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 48th governor of Kansas. A member of the Kansas Democratic Party, Democratic Party, she represented the Kansas's 18th Senate district, 18th district in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2019. Kelly was elected governor in 2018 Kansas gubernatorial election, 2018 and reelected in 2022 Kansas gubernatorial election, 2022. Early life and education Kelly was born in New York City to a military family that moved often and was stationed overseas. She studied at Bradley University in Illinois, earning a Bachelor of Science in psychology in 1971,[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Topeka, Kansas
Topeka ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 126,587. The city, laid out in 1854, was one of the Free-State towns founded by Eastern antislavery men immediately after the passage of the Kansas–Nebraska Bill. In 1857, Topeka was chartered as a city. The city is well known for the landmark U.S. Supreme Court case '' Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka'', which overturned '' Plessy v. Ferguson'' and declared racial segregation in public schools to be unconstitutional. History Name The name "Topeka" is a Kansa-Osage word that means "place where we dig potatoes", or "a good place to dig potatoes". As a placename, Topeka was first recorded in 1826 as the Kansa name for what is now called the Kansas River. Topeka's founders chose the name in 18 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
