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Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is the 46th and current Governor of Kansas. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011, and as a U.S. Representative for Kansas's 2nd congressional district from 1995 to 1996. As a Senator, he was featured in the documentary series How Democracy Works Now: Twelve Stories. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2008 presidential election, withdrawing before the primaries.
Early life
Sam Brownback was born in Garnett, Kansas to Nancy and Robert Brownback. He was raised in a farming family in Parker, Kansas; his ancestors, of German descent, settled in Kansas after leaving Pennsylvania following the Civil War. Brownback was state president of the ...
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback will receive a medal from the Korean government in Washington on Wednesday in recognition of his contribution to development of the Korea-U.S. alliance and fight for human rights in North Korea. Ambassador to the U.S. Han Duck-soo will decorate Brownback with the Distinguished Order of Diplomatic Service Gwanghwa at his residence. Brownback has co-sponsored resolutions to commemorate the centennial of Korean immigration to the U.S. and the 50th anniversary of the bilateral alliance, and joined other congressmen in writing a letter supporting a bilateral ...
Four Republicans from the eastern side of the state have been selected to Gov.-elect Sam Brownback’s transition team.
Former state Rep. Kenny Wilk of Lansing will lead the team.
Other area members include Rep. Lance Kinzer of Olathe, former state Sen. Nick Jordan of Shawnee and Chiquita Coggs of Kansas City, Kan.
Wilk, a former House Appropriations Committee chairman, said the team’s two areas of initial focus are the budget and legislative package and selection of cabinet appointees. Brownback said no members of the transition team are automatically in or out of ...
The transition team for Governor-elect Sam Brownback has announced some of the details of his upcoming inauguration.
During the first week of January there will be special community service events which have not yet been announced. An inaugural dinner and ball will be held at the Kansas Expocentre in Topeka from six to eleven p.m. The following day, Sunday, January 9th, there will be a prayer service at two p.m. at the Mabee Performing Arts hall at MidAmerica Nazarene University in Olathe.
The formal inauguration will be held on the South Steps of the State Capitol at 11am Monday ...