Government - Kansas Legislators Past & Present, State Library of Kansas

Through the years staff of the State Library's Legislative Reference Division have kept a card file of senators and representatives elected or appointed to the State Legislature. Information was also kept on those who were elected or appointed but did not serve due to health problems, death, redistricting, legal actions, etc. Some of the information has been provided through the courtesy of the Kansas State Historical Society.

Putting this listing online is done as an aid to researchers seeking basic information on former and present day Kansas legislators.

Access the Kansas Legislators Past & Present Listings

Just for fun we have begun a trivia page on Kansas legislators. It lists interesting facts on individual legislators with source material when known.

If you have more information on any of the senators or representatives here please email us at ksdocs@kslib.info or send a letter to:

Bill Sowers
State Library of Kansas
300 SW 10th, Room 343-N
Topeka, KS 66612

We can't put up complete biographies but would like to add basic information and source material available on individuals. This would include online information as well as paper (e.g. obituaries, books, articles, family histories, etc.) Just give us a full citation of the piece you know of containing information on any of these Kansas lawmakers and send it to us. The State Library of Kansas also has a vertical file collection on past legislators and would appreciate any donations to this collection as well.

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Legislator Listings

We have grouped state legislators alphabetically by surname:

Information on these pages is grouped as follows:

Name: As much of the name of the individual as we know
Born: When and where born
Died: When and where died
Occupation: Occupation while in the Legislature.
County: County or counties of residence while in the Legislature
Town: City of residence while in the Legislature.
Party: Political party or parties affiliated with while in the Legislature
District: House or Senate district number while serving in the Legislature.
Chamber: Whether the individual served in the House or Senate or both, and dates of service. The District and Chamber may occur more than once if the individual served from more than one district or chamber.
Notes: Pertinent notes about this person such as military service, other government/organizational positions held, when they came to Kansas, name of spouse, etc.
Source material: Where one can go to get more information on this legislator. Sources might be newspaper articles, biographical directories, history books, personal archives, or online information available on the Internet with a link to that site