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Legislator Trivia
Compiled by Rita Haley, Sherri Schulte, Bill Sowers and Lois Delfelder.
Listed here are tidbits on legislators for your entertainment and education. Whenever possible we have included source material for the facts we present.
If we have erred on any of this information please let us know. -- Bill Sowers, ksdocs@kslib.info.
After serving in the House of Representatives in early 1870's, he went on to produce a famous reference Bible and Bible correspondence course.
(Cyrus Ingerson Scofield)
The nickname, "The Father of the House," was given to this representative from Atchison, who served nine terms in the House during the politically tumultuous 1880's and 1890's.
(John Seaton)
Elected to Senate in 1924 at age 28. At that time, he was the youngest person ever elected to the Senate. He was the first Commissioner of Workers Compensation in Kansas in 1929. In 1928 he became the first person in 27 years elected to represent Shawnee County in the State Senate for a second term.
(G. Clay Baker).
[Source: Who's who in the Kansas Legislature, 1931]
First woman elected to the Kansas Legislature. She was a prohibitionist, an ordained Baptist minister, and a public lecturer. In 1923 she introduced legislation which was passed, banning the sale of cigarettes in Kansas.
(Minnie Tamar Johnson Grinstead)
[Source: Kansas State Historical Society website describing the Minnie Tamar (Johnson) & Virgil Hooker Grinstead Collection - http://www.kshs.org/ms/mc365.htm]
Johnson County, Kansas, was named after his father, a Methodist Episcopal missionary, who came to area in 1829.
(Alexander Soule Johnson)
[Source: History of Kansas / by Wm Cutler. Also: Kansas Place Names.]
Born a slave, he was the first African American elected to the Kansas Legislature.
(Alfred Fairfax)
[Source: Kansas State Historical Society website: http://www.kshs.org/people/afampeop.htm#f]
He was the first African-American elected to the Kansas State Senate. His brother wrote the book, Roots.
(George W. Haley)
[Source: Wichita Eagle-Beacon, June 25, 1998].
He came to Kansas in 1849 as a missionary among the Shawnee Indians. He was one of the founders of Council Grove, Kansas. In 1852 he and his wife, Eliza, started one of the first schools in Kansas for children living in the Council Grove area.
(Thomas S. Huffaker)
[Source: A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans / by William Connelley.]
He was the youngest known person ever elected to the Kansas Legislature.
(John Lloyd Sullivan)
He was born April 4, 1959, and served in the 1979 and 1980 Legislative sessions. He would have been 19 when the 1979 session began.]
[source: Birth date taken from Who's who in American Politics, 1979-1980 (7th Edition) (New York : R.R. Bowker Co., 1979.)]
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