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Since becoming a state, Kansas has had 48 governors. The state's longest-serving governors were Robert Docking, John W. Carlin, and Bill Graves, each of whom served 8 years (Docking served four two-year terms; Carlin and Graves each served 2 4-year terms). The shortest-serving governor was John McCuish, who served only 11 days after the ...
The government of the U.S. state of Kansas, established by the Kansas Constitution, is a republican democracy modeled after the Federal Government of the United States. The state government has three branches: the executive, the legislative, and the judicial. Through a system of separation of powers, or "checks and balances," each of these ...
Kansas has 105 counties, the fifth-highest total of any state. The first counties were established while Kansas was a Territory from May 30, 1854, until January 29, 1861, when Kansas became a state. Many of the counties in the eastern part of the state are named after prominent Americans from the late 18th and early-to-mid-19th centuries, while ...
List of counties in Kansas; List of cities in Kansas; List of unincorporated communities in Kansas; List of census-designated places in Kansas; List of ghost towns in Kansas; Lists of places in Kansas; Kansas locations by per capita income; Kansas census statistical areas; Kansas license plate county codes
Laura Kelly. Laura Jeanne Kelly (born January 24, 1950) [1][2] is an American politician serving since 2019 as the 48th governor of Kansas. A member of the Democratic Party, she represented the 18th district in the Kansas Senate from 2005 to 2019. [3] Kelly was elected governor in 2018, defeating Republican nominee Kris Kobach. [4]
Kansas is a state located in the Midwestern United States. According to the 2023 United States Census estimate its population is 2,940,546 and Kansas has a growth rate of 0.09% annually, which ranks 31st among all 50 states. Kansas is the 13th largest by land area spanning 81,758.72 square miles (211,754.1 km 2) of land. [1]
Category:Governors of Kansas. Category. : Governors of Kansas. This category includes biographies of the governors of the U.S. state of Kansas. For a list of territorial governors, refer to the section on Territorial governors in the list of Governors of Kansas . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Governors of Kansas.
Website. CrawfordCountyKansas.org. Crawford County is a county located in Southeast Kansas. Its county seat is Girard, [3] and its most populous city is Pittsburg. As of the 2020 census, the county population was 38,972. [1] The county was named in honor of Samuel Crawford, [4] the 3rd governor of Kansas. Pittsburg State University is located ...