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January 29, 1861 - Kansas is the 34th state admitted to the Union. Kansas was admitted as a free state, after seven years of feuding between residents whether to be admitted as a slave or free state.
Area - 82,282 sq. miles Capital - Topeka © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
Motto - Ad astra per aspera (Latin - To the stars through adversity.) Nickname - Sunflower State

- The "Stars and Stripes" (American flag) were first raised in Kansas in September, 1806 by a Pawnee Indian Chief.
- William Becknell blazes the route in 1821, that becomes known as the Santa Fe Trail.
- U.S. Congress passes the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act to establish the territories of Kansas and of Nebraska.
- In 1854 President Franklin Pierce appoints Andrew H. Reeder first territorial governor of Kansas.
- The first delegate, John W. Whitefield, was elected to Congress in 1854.
- The first legislature is formed by election in 1855. The election is considered "bogus' by many as it was virtually taken over by pro-slavery candidates who came in from Mosouri.
- In 1855 a free-state constitution is presented but does not receive serious consideration in Congress.
- A pro slavery constitution is drafted in 1857 at Lecompton. It is adopted in an election in which "free state men" refused to vote and later rejected at a second election in which the "pro slavery men" took no part.       © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
- The Kansas Republican party is officially organized in May, 1859 at Osawatomie.
- At Wyandotte, now part of Kansas City the fourth constitution convention was held in July, 1859. Free State supporters were in firm control and drafted a constitution that barred slavery and set the state boundaries. The Kansas state government was elected in December that year.
- The Pony Express is established in Kansas with 11 Stations in 1860. It ran between St. Joseph, Missouri through Kansas and on to Sacramento, California.
- In 1860 the Kansas legislature passed a bill abolishing slavery in Kansas in an override of the governor's veto .
- Kansas becomes the 34th state on January 29, 1861, entering the Union as a "free state".
- Kansas provides 650 men to the Civil War in April 1861. Over two thirds of Kansas' military population of under 30,000 will have served by wars end in 1865. - Topeka becomes the state Capitol in 1861.
- Kansas women are given the right to vote in school elections in 1861, earlier than in most states.
- The only major Civil War engagement, the Battle of Mine Creek is fought in October, 1864. 25,000 men on both sides battle under 3 Union Generals and 2 Confederate Generals. This battle stopped the confederate invasion into Kansas.
- Voters fail an 1867 amendment for the woman vote.             © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
- State legislature purges color distinction from Kansas law in 1876.
- Kansas women in 1887 are given the right to vote in municipal elections.
- Susanna Medora Salter of Argonia, in southeastern Kansas, becomes the first woman mayor in the United States in 1887.
- Kansas women's voting amendment is ratified in Kansas in 1912.
- Arthur Capper is elected in 1914 to the office of Governor. He is the first native born Kansan to take the governorship.
- The first woman Kansas State Senator, Mrs. T.T. Solander, is elected in 1929.
- Kathryn O'Laughlin McCarthy is elected in 1932 as the first U. S. Congresswoman to represent Kansas.
- The only Republican Governor elected in 1934 in the U.S. is Alfred Mossman "Alf" Landon.
- Alfred M. Landon receives the Republican Nomination for U. S. president in 1836 but looses to Franklin D. Roosevelt.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower was the first Kansan elected President of the United States in 1952.
- In Kansas, 1954, the Supreme Court overturns legal school segregation at all levels. (Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka)
- The 34th U. S. President, Dwight D. Eisenhower, dies in 1969.
- Bob Dole, from Russell, and a Kansas leader, runs for Vice President as Republican Gerald Ford's running mate in 1976.
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum, in 1978 is the first Kansas woman elected to the U.S. Senate for a full term.
- Two native Kansans, Bob Dole of Russell and Gary Hart of Ottawa each unsuccessfully seek their party's nomination for President in 1988.             © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
- Joan Finney becomes the first Kansan woman Governor in 1991.
- Bob Dole, Kansas Senator, retired from the U.S. Senate in 1996 to run for President.
- Bob Dole, from Russell, Kansas, gains the Republican nomination in 1996 to run for President of the United States challenging the re-election of Bill Clinton.

One Vote Counts in Kansas.
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