Kansas's 2nd congressional district

**Kansas' 2nd congressional district** is a congressional district in the U.S. state of Kansas. It includes most of the eastern part of Kansas. The size of the district is less than a quarter of the state. The state capital of Topeka and the city of Lawrence are both in this district.

The representative for this district is Republican Derek Schmidt.

## List of members representing the district

|Member|Party|Years in office|Cong ress|Residence|Electoral history|||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan=2|District created|March 4, 1875||||||||
|align=left|**John R. Goodin**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1877||Humboldt|||
|align=left|**Dudley C. Haskell**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1877 – December 16, 1883||Lawrence|Died.||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|December 16, 1883 – March 21, 1884|||||||
|align=left|**Edward H. Funston**||Republican|nowrap|March 21, 1884 – August 2, 1894||Iola|Lost contested election.||
|align=left|**Horace L. Moore**||Democratic|nowrap|August 2, 1894 – March 3, 1895||Lawrence|Won contested election.||
|align=left|**Orrin L. Miller**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1895 – March 3, 1897||Lawrence|||
|align=left|**Mason S. Peters**||Populist|nowrap|March 4, 1897 – March 3, 1899||Kansas City|||
|align=left|**Justin D. Bowersock**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1899 – March 3, 1907||Lawrence|||
|align=left|**Charles F. Scott**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1907 – March 3, 1911||Iola|Redistricted from the .||
|align=left|**Alexander C. Mitchell**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1911 – July 7, 1911||Lawrence|Died.||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|July 7, 1911 – November 7, 1911|||||||
|align=left|**Joseph Taggart**||Democratic|nowrap|November 7, 1911 – March 3, 1917||Kansas City|||
|align=left|**Edward C. Little**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1917 – June 27, 1924||Kansas City|Died.||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|June 27, 1924 – November 4, 1924|rowspan=2||||||
|align=left|**Ulysses S. Guyer**||Republican|nowrap|November 4, 1924 – March 3, 1925|Kansas City||||
|align=left|**Chauncey B. Little**||Democratic|nowrap|March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1927||Olathe|||
|align=left|**Ulysses S. Guyer**||Republican|nowrap|March 4, 1927 – June 5, 1943||Kansas City|Died.||
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|June 5, 1943 – September 14, 1943|||||||
|align=left|**Errett P. Scrivner**||Republican|nowrap|September 14, 1943 – January 3, 1959||Kansas City|||
|align=left|**Newell A. George**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1959 – January 3, 1961||Kansas City|||
|align=left|**Robert F. Ellsworth**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1961 – January 3, 1963||Lawrence|Redistricted to the .||
|align=left|**William H. Avery**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1963 – January 3, 1965||Wakefield|Redistricted from the . Retired to run for Governor of Kansas.||
|align=left|**Chester L. Mize**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1965 – January 3, 1971||Atchison|||
|align=left|**William Robert Roy**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1971 – January 3, 1975||Topeka|||
|align=left|**Martha Elizabeth Keys**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1975 – January 3, 1979||Manhattan|||
|align=left|**James Edmund Jeffries**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1979 – January 3, 1983||Atchison|||
|align=left|**Jim Slattery**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 1983 – January 3, 1995||Topeka|Retired to run for Governor of Kansas.||
|align=left|**Sam Brownback**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 1995 – November 7, 1996|rowspan=2||Topeka|Resigned November 27, 1996 retroactive to November 7, 1996 when elected U.S. Senator.|
|colspan=2|_Vacant_|nowrap|November 7, 1996 – November 27, 1996|||||||
|align=left|**Jim Ryun**||Republican|nowrap|November 27, 1996 – January 3, 2007||Topeka, then Lawrence|Elected in 1996 and seated early under the provisions of K.S.A. 25-3503[d]. Lost re-election.||
|align=left|**Nancy Boyda**||Democratic|nowrap|January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2009||Topeka|Lost re-election.||
|align=left|**Lynn Jenkins**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 2009 – January 3, 2019||Topeka|Retired.||
|align=left|**Steve Watkins**||Republican|nowrap|January 3, 2019 – Present||Topeka|Incumbent||

## Recent election results from statewide races

|Year|Office|Results|
| --- | --- | --- |
|U.S. President||George W. Bush (R) 54 – Al Gore (D) 41%|
|U.S. President||George W. Bush (R) 59 – John Kerry (D) 39%|
|U.S. President||John McCain (R) 55 – Barack Obama (D) 43%|
|U.S. President||Mitt Romney (R) 56 – Barack Obama (D) 42%|
|U.S. President||Donald Trump (R) 56 – Hillary Clinton (D) 37%|

## Related pages

- Kansas's congressional districts
- List of United States congressional districts
- United States Congressional Delegations from Kansas

## References

- Congressional Biographical Directory of the United States 1774–present

## Infobox (u.s. congressional district)

- **state**: Kansas
- **district number**: 2
- **image name**: Kansas US Congressional District 2 (since 2013).tif
- **image width**: 400
- **image caption**: **Kansas' 2nd congressional district – since January 3, 2013.**
- **representative**: Derek Schmidt
- **party**: Republican
- **residence**: Topeka
- **percent urban**: 59.73
- **percent rural**: 40.27
- **population**: 715,752
- **population year**: 2015
- **median income**: $53,483
- **percent white**: 89.0
- **percent black**: 5.1
- **percent asian**: 1.0
- **percent native american**: 1.3
- **percent hispanic**: 3.8
- **percent other race**: 2.0
- **cpvi**: R+10