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This is a list of Grand Army of the Republic (G.A.R.) posts in Kansas, United States. The G.A.R., Department of Kansas was established December 7, 1866. It was preceded by an organization known as the Veteran Brotherhood (and Union Brotherhood), State of Kansas organized in December 1865. The Department of Kansas was permanently reorganized on ...
The Kansas Highway Patrol (KHP) is the highway patrol agency for the U.S. state of Kansas. While the patrol's primary focus is maintaining the safety of State, Federal and Interstate highways , it also is charged with providing support for county agencies when tactical, aerial or other specialized services are needed.
Harry J. Holzer, economist, Professor of Public Policy at the McCourt School of Public Policy, fellow at the American Institutes for Research [278] John Hopfield , physicist, Howard A. Prior Professor of Molecular Biology emeritus at Princeton University, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2024 [ 279 ]
The community is served by Rawlins County USD 105 public school district, [25] formed in 2003 by the consolidation of Herndon USD 317 and Atwood USD 318. [26] The district has two schools in Atwood: Rawlins County Junior/Senior High School
Brown County is a county located in the northeastern portion of the U.S. state of Kansas.Its county seat and most populous city is Hiawatha. [3] As of the 2020 census, the county population was 9,508. [1]
This battle, involving 25,000 men, resulted in a Union victory which ended the threat of Confederate invasion in Kansas. Pleasanton had its start in the year 1869 by the building of the Kansas City, Fort Scott & Memphis Railroad through that territory. [4] It was named in honor of General Alfred Pleasonton, though the city name is spelled ...
The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad (reporting mark MKT) was a Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas, Texas. Established in 1865 under the name Union Pacific Railroad (UP), Southern Branch, it came to serve an extensive rail network in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri.
Johnson retired to his Texas ranch, where he died in 1973. Public opinion and academic assessments of Johnson's legacy have fluctuated greatly. Historians and scholars rank Johnson in the upper tier for his accomplishments regarding domestic policy. His administration passed many major laws that made substantial changes in civil rights, health ...