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Merriam / ˈ m ɛr i ə m / is a city in Johnson County, Kansas, United States, [1] and part of the Kansas City Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census , the population of the city was 11,098. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Merriam is included in the Shawnee Mission postal designation.
While Kansas's other congressional districts include significant rural territory, the 3rd is almost exclusively urban and suburban. As such, it is much friendlier to Democrats than the rest of the state. It was the only district in Kansas carried by Democrats in 2008, 2016, and 2020.
AdventHealth Shawnee Mission, is a 504-bed hospital in Merriam in Johnson County, Kansas.In addition to the hospital itself it has a free-standing outpatient surgery, a community health education building, five physician office buildings and an associate child care center.
All incorporated communities in Kansas are called cities, unlike in some states where some are called towns or villages.(11 of 50 states only have cities). Once a city is incorporated in Kansas, it will continue to be a city even after falling below the minimum required to become a city, and even if the minimum is later raised. [3]
Robert Blackwell Docking (October 9, 1925 – October 8, 1983) was an American businessman and politician from Kansas who served as the 38th governor of Kansas from 1967 until 1975. A conservative Democrat in a heavily Republican state, Docking is to date Kansas's only governor to serve four terms.
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Kansas City Red was his drummer from the early 1940s to around 1946. [8] He recorded Kansas City Red's song "The Moon Is Rising". [9] McCoy became a familiar voice on local radio stations, including WROX. A teenaged Ike Turner joined his band as a roadie in Clarksdale, Mississippi. [10] [11] Robert Lee McCoy disappeared in the mid-1940s.
Seaboard built its current corporate headquarters in Merriam, Kansas in 1980. In 1982 Seaboard sold its domestic flour milling division to Cargill, Inc. and changed its name to Seaboard Corporation, while continuing its milling operations outside the U.S. Harry Bresky and Seaboard took noticeable steps to diversify the company, initially by ...