# First ladies and gentlemen of Kansas

First Lady or First Gentleman of Kansas is the title attributed to the spouses of the governors of the U.S. state of Kansas, especially from 1933. The current first gentleman is Ted Daughety, husband of Governor Laura Kelly, who has held the role since January 2019. Daughety is the third first gentleman is Kansas' history.

## Territorial first ladies

* The area that became Kansas was part of Louisiana Territory, later renamed Missouri Territory, until 1821, and unorganized until it became its own territory on May 30, 1854; see First Ladies and Gentlemen of Missouri for the period from 1805 to 1821.
* A small part of Kansas was once claimed as part of the Republic of Texas (see List of presidents of the Republic of Texas, and before that, was part of Mexico (see Spanish governors of New Mexico).
| # | Name | Took office | Left office | Governor |
| 1 | Amalia Hutter | July 7, 1854 | August 16, 1855 | Andrew Horatio Reeder |
| 2 | Sarah Osbun | September 7, 1855 | August 18, 1856 | Wilson Shannon |
| 3 | Mary Bache | May 27, 1857 | December 15, 1857 | Robert J. Walker |
| 4 | Louise Rombach | December 1857 | November 1858 | James W. Denver |
| 5 | Eliza Scott | December 1858 | December 1860 | Samuel Medary |

## First ladies and gentlemen of the State of Kansas

| # | Name | Took office | Left office | Governor |
| 1 | Sara Tappan Doolittle Robinson | February 9, 1861 | January 12, 1863 | Charles L. Robinson |
| 2 | Rebecca Ann Canaday | January 12, 1863 | January 9, 1865 | Thomas Carney |
| 3 | Isabel Marshall Chase | January 9, 1865 | November 4, 1868 | Samuel J. Crawford |
| 4 | Ida King Leffingwell | November 4, 1868 | January 11, 1869 | Nehemiah Green |
| 5 | Charlotte Richardson Cutter | January 11, 1869 | January 13, 1873 | James M. Harvey |
| 6 | Julia Delehay | January 13, 1873 | January 8, 1877 | Thomas A. Osborn |
| 7 | Rosa Lyon | January 8, 1877 | January 13, 1879 | George T. Anthony |
| 8 | Susan J. Parker | January 13, 1879 | January 8, 1883 | John St. John |
| 9 | Elizabeth Rider | January 8, 1883 | January 12, 1885 | George Washington Glick |
| 10 | Ida Challiss | January 12, 1885 | January 14, 1889 | John A. Martin |
| 11 | Amanda Leonard | January 14, 1889 | January 9, 1893 | Lyman U. Humphrey |
| 12 | Ida Bishop | January 9, 1893 | January 14, 1895 | Lorenzo D. Lewelling |
| 13 | Caroline Jenkins Nash | January 14, 1895 | January 11, 1897 | Edmund N. Morrill |
| 14 | Sarah J. Boyd | January 11, 1897 | January 9, 1899 | John W. Leedy |
| 15 | Emma Lenora Hills | January 9, 1899 | January 12, 1903 | William E. Stanley |
| 16 | Ida Albert Weede | January 12, 1903 | January 9, 1905 | Willis J. Bailey |
| 17 | Sarah Louise Dickerson | January 9, 1905 | January 11, 1909 | Edward W. Hoch |
| 18 | Stella Hosteller | January 11, 1909 | January 13, 1913 | Walter R. Stubbs |
| 19 | Ora May Murray | January 13, 1913 | January 11, 1915 | George H. Hodges |
| 20 | Florence Crawford | January 11, 1915 | January 13, 1919 | Arthur Capper |
| 21 | Elsie Nuzman | January 13, 1919 | January 8, 1923 | Henry J. Allen |
| 22 | Mary Purdom | January 8, 1923 | January 12, 1925 | Jonathan M. Davis |
| 23 | Barbara Ellis | January 12, 1925 | January 14, 1929 | Ben S. Paulen |
| 24 | Minnie E. Hart | January 14, 1929 | January 12, 1931 | Clyde M. Reed |
| 25 | Theo Cobb | January 9, 1933 | January 11, 1937 | Alf Landon |
| 26 | Eula M. Biggs | January 11, 1937 | January 9, 1939 | Walter A. Huxman |
| 27 | Cliffe Dodd | January 9, 1939 | January 11, 1943 | Payne Ratner |
| 28 | Marie Thomsen | January 11, 1943 | January 13, 1947 | Andrew F. Schoeppel |
| 29 | Alice Fredrickson | January 13, 1947 | November 28, 1950 | Frank Carlson |
| 30 | Elizabeth Blair Sutton | November 28, 1950 | January 8, 1951 | Frank L. Hagaman |
| 31 | Marcella Tillmans | January 8, 1951 | January 10, 1955 | Edward F. Arn |
| 32 | Leadell Schneider | January 10, 1955 | January 3, 1957 | Fred Hall |
| 33 | Cora Hedrick | January 3, 1957 | January 14, 1957 | John McCuish |
| 34 | Mary Virginia Blackwell | January 14, 1957 | January 9, 1961 | George Docking |
| 35 | Arlene Auchard | January 9, 1961 | January 11, 1961 | John Anderson Jr. |
| 36 | Hazel Bowles | January 11, 1965 | January 9, 1967 | William H. Avery |
| 37 | Meredith Gear | January 9, 1967 | January 13, 1975 | Robert Docking |
| 38 | Olivia Fisher | January 13, 1975 | January 8, 1979 | Robert F. Bennett |
| 39 | Ramona Hawkinson Carlin | January 8, 1979 | November 15, 1980 | John W. Carlin |
| 40 | Karen Carlin | 1981 | 1985 | John W. Carlin |
| 41 | Patti Rooney | January 12, 1987 | January 14, 1991 | Mike Hayden |
| 42 | Spencer Finney | January 14, 1991 | January 9, 1995 | Joan Finney |
| 43 | Linda Graves | January 9, 1995 | January 13, 2003 | Bill Graves |
| 44 | K. Gary Sebelius | January 13, 2003 | April 28, 2009 | Kathleen Sebelius |
| 45 | Stacy Abbott | April 28, 2009 | January 10, 2011 | Mark Parkinson |
| 46 | Mary Brownback | January 10, 2011 | January 31, 2018 | Sam Brownback |
| 47 | Ruth Colyer | January 31, 2018 | January 14, 2019 | Jeff Colyer |
| 48 | Ted Daughety | January 14, 2019 | Incumbent | Laura Kelly |