Secretary of State of Kansas

The Secretary of State of Kansas is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Kansas. They are in charge of administering elections and voter registration for Kansas. They also get campaign finance reports. They are also able to prosecute people for voter fraud.

The current Secretary of State is Scott Schwab. He has been secretary since January 14, 2019.

History
The first Secretary of State for Kansas was John Winter Robinson. He was a doctor from Litchfield, Maine, but he moved to Manhattan, Kansas in 1857. Robinson was elected in December 1859. He became secretary in February 1861, after Kansas became a state.

List of secretaries
Secretaries in the Kansas Territory 

NameTermPartyDaniel Woodson1854–1857DemocraticFrederick P. Stanton1857DemocraticJames W. Denver1857–1858DemocraticHugh Sleight Walsh1858–1860DemocraticGeorge M. Beebe1860–1861Democratic

State
NameTermPartyJohn Winter Robinson1861–1862RepublicanSanders Rufus Shepherd1862–1863RepublicanWarren Wirt Henry Lawrence1863–1865RepublicanRinaldo Allen Barker1865–1869RepublicanThomas Moonlight1869–1871RepublicanWilliam Hillary Smallwood1871–1875RepublicanThomas Horne Cavanaugh1875–1879RepublicanJames Smith1879–1885RepublicanEdwin Bird Allen1885–1889RepublicanWilliam Higgins1889–1893RepublicanRussell Scott Osborn1893–1895PopulistWilliam Corydon Edwards1895–1897RepublicanWilliam Eben Bush1897–1899PopulistGeorge Alfred Clark1899–1903RepublicanJoel Randall Burrow1903–1907RepublicanCharles Eugene Denton1907–1911RepublicanCharles Harrison Sessions1911–1915RepublicanJohn Thomas Botkin1915–1919RepublicanLewis Julian Pettijohn1919–1922RepublicanDavid Owen McCray1922–1923RepublicanFrank Joseph Ryan1923–1929RepublicanEdgbert Albert Cornell1929–1933RepublicanFrank Joseph Ryan1933–1949RepublicanLarry Ryan1949–1951DemocraticPaul R. Shanahan1951–1966RepublicanElwill M. Shanahan1966–1978RepublicanJack Brier1978–1987RepublicanBill Graves1987–1995RepublicanRon Thornburgh1995–2010RepublicanChris Biggs2010–2011DemocraticKris Kobach2011–2019RepublicanScott Schwab2019–presentRepublican

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Category:Government of Kansas
Category:1861 establishments in Kansas