Papers 1908-1974

Landon, Alfred M. (Alfred Mossman), 1887-1987

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Alfred "Alf" Mossman Landon (September 9, 1887 – October 12, 1987) was an American politician from the Republican Party. He served as the twenty-sixth Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. He was the Republican Party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election, but was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt who won the electoral college vote 523 to 8. Born in West Middlesex, Pennsylvania, Landon spent most of his childhood in Marietta, Ohio before moving to Kansa...

Corbin family

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Mahoney, Elmo

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Chilcott family

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Smith, Wint, 1892-1976.

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Rep. Smith's varied interest; and concerns while a member of Congress are well reflected by the correspondence and subject files he maintained. The congressional subject files, for example, contain manuscript items dealing with communism, biographical sketches of prominent individuals of the times, the United Nations, labor and labor hearings in the United States, and so on. Similarly, the congressional correspondence files reveal a variety of material concerned not only with political issues, b...

Kansas Highway Patrol

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In 1933, the Kansas Legislature, Governor Alfred Landon, and Highway Department Attorney Wint Smith acted to halt the rampant bank robberies and crime sprees of the 1920s and 1930s. They created a force of ten motor vehicle inspectors, forerunners of Kansas troopers. The Legislature officially organized the Kansas Highway Patrol in 1937. All appointees had to pass a physical exam and be U.S. citizens, at least 24 years old, of good health and moral character, and without a criminal record. The 1...

Schoeppel, Andrew Frank, 1894-1962

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Andrew Frank Schoeppel (b. Nov. 23, 1894, Barton County, Kan.-d. Jan. 21, 1962, Bethesda, Md.), U.S. Senator from Kansas, left university to enlist in the Naval Air Service during World War I, then graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1922. He held a number of local and state-wide political posts, including Governor of Kansas from 1943 to 1947. He was elected as a Republican to the Senate in 1948 and served from 1949 until his death in 1962. From the description of...