Your elected officials are:
United States Senators:
Pat Roberts
Sam Brownback
United States Representatives:
Jerry Moran
Nancy Boyda
Dennis Moore
Todd Tiahrt
Governor:
Kathleen Sebelius
Lieutenant Governor:
Mark Parkinson
State Treasurer:
Lynn Jenkins, CPA
Secretary of State:
Ron Thornburgh
Insurance Commissioner:
Sandy Praeger
Attorney General:
Stephen N. Six
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- Kansas, the 34th state to gain admittance to the Union, is in the geographic center of
the continental United States.
- Admitted as a free state, we joined the Union on January 29, 1861, and played a key role
in the Civil War.
- The state motto is "Ad Astra Per Aspera" which is Latin for "To the Stars through
difficulty."
- The nickname of Kansas is the Sunflower State.
- The state bird is the Western Meadowlark.
- The state flower is the Sunflower.
- The state tree is the Cottonwood.
- The state animal is the Bison.
- The State insect is the Honeybee.
- The state reptile is the Ornate Box Turtle.
- The state amphibian is the Barred Tiger Salamander.
- Topeka is the capital city.
- Kansas has more than two million people. Most people live in the eastern third of the
state, which is shaped like a rectangle.
- Kansas is one of the midwestern plains states. It is not mountainous, although it has
rolling hills.
- The state is ideal for farming with warm, sunny summers and mild but snowy winters. Our
farmland mainly produces wheat, corn and milo.
- Kansas' main industry is airplane production. Boeing, Learjet, Raytheon and Cessna produce
their airplanes in Wichita, Kansas.
- The University of Kansas and Kansas State University are the largest of our seven major
universities.
- Washburn University, located in Topeka, is the only remaining municipal university in the
country.
- Kansas also has 19 community colleges.
- Kansas is famous for being the home of former President Dwight David Eisenhower.
- Another Famous Kansan, Amelia Earhart, was the first woman granted a pilot's license by the
National Aeronautics Association and the second person to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Kansas was also as the home of astronauts Ron Evans, Joe Engle and Steve Hawley.
- The state song is "Home on the Range" by Dr. Brewster Higley.
- Your elected officials are:
- United States Senators: Pat Roberts and Sam Brownback
- United States Representatives: Jerry Moran, Nancy Boyda, Dennis Moore and Todd Tiahrt
- Governor: Kathleen Sebelius
- Lieutenant Governor: Mark Parkinson
- State Treasurer: Lynn Jenkins, CPA
- Secretary of State: Ron Thornburgh
- Insurance Commissioner: Sandy Praeger
- Attorney General: Stephen N. Six
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