League of Women Voters of Kansas.

The League of Women Voters of Kansas (LWVK) is a non-partisan, grassroots, volunteer and political organization with eight local Leagues across the state. They provide members with voter registration, information on elected officials, and voter education on various issues and legislation. The LWVK also takes official positions on pieces of legislation after thorough research, deriving these positions from a consensus of members. The league works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and to influence public policy through education and advocacy, as well as through political lobbying of Congress. At the final convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, the League of Women Voters was born. Jane Brooks of Wichita, Kan., wife of a prominent attorney and president of the Kansas Equal Suffrage Association (KESA), was elected chairman of the national league of women voters in 1919. She went home to Kansas and set about dissolving the KESA and establishing the first local League of Women Voters in the country. [League of Women Voters of Kansas. "Our History." http://www.lwvk.org/PDF/lwvkhistory.pdf (accessed October 28, 2009).]