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This is a list of people from Topeka, Kansas. Academia. Warren Faidley (1957- ), meteorologist, storm chaser [1] Riley Gardner (1921-2007), psychologist [2] Wes ...
Robert Stone – Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives (1915), Kansas State Representative (1905–1917) Ron Thornburgh – Kansas Secretary of State (1995–2010) Togiola Tulafono (J.D. 1975) – Governor of American Samoa (2003–2013) Douglas S. Wright – Mayor of Topeka, Kansas (1983–1989)
Ricky R. Washington Jr., 45, of Topeka, was the man killed in Sunday morning’s double shooting in central Topeka, police said Tuesday. Police still weren't making public the name, age or gender ...
Beginning in 1961, he served as a staff psychiatrist of the C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital in Topeka, Kansas. In March 1964, he also became co-director of the Menninger Foundation's Division of School Mental Health. [2] He became a nationally recognized expert on psychiatric issues relating to suicide [4] stress, [5] and personal satisfaction ...
Douglas S. Wright (c. 1948 – July 27, 2023) was an American attorney and politician who was the mayor of Topeka, Kansas and a candidate for the United States Congress. Wright, who served as Mayor of Topeka from 1983 to 1989, was the son of another former Topeka mayor, Chuck Wright , who led the city from 1965 to 1969.
USA TODAY Ad Meter: Watch and rate the Super Bowl ads A day off after the Super Bowl part of game plan for many. The poll estimates that 12.9 million will take a pre-approved day off, while 4.8 ...
1858: The Kansas State Record starts publishing. 1873: The Topeka Blade is founded by J. Clarke Swayze. 1879: George W. Reed buys the Blade and changes its name to The Kansas State Journal. 1879: The Topeka Daily Capital is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881.
By the fall of 1950, the Topeka NAACP had assembled a group of 13 parents to serve as plaintiffs for the case that would eventually be filed under the name of one of the parents, Oliver Brown, becoming known as Oliver L. Brown et al. v. the Board of Education of Topeka (KS). In the Topeka NAACP case, parents involved were concerned that their ...