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Alma mater. Hendrix College. Joan Wagnon (née Davis; born October 17, 1940) is an American former politician. She was a representative in the Kansas House of Representatives between 1983 and 1995 and the mayor of Topeka, Kansas, between 1997 and 2001. She was secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue from 2003 to 2011, when she took over ...
Business. Henry Bubb (1907-1989), president and chairman of Capitol Federal Savings Bank. Brad Garlinghouse (1971- ), business executive, investor [48] Cyrus K. Holliday (1826-1900), first president of Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe railroad; founder of Topeka township. John F. Kilmartin (1921-2004), retail executive [49]
1873: The Topeka Blade is founded by J. Clarke Swayze. 1879: George W. Reed buys the Blade and changes its name to The Kansas State Journal. 1879: The Topeka Daily Capital is founded by Major J.K. Hudson as an evening paper but changes to morning in 1881. Its press is claimed to be the first electric motor press in the United States [citation ...
Red Reeder (1902–1998), author and United States Army officer; Fort Leavenworth. Richard Rhodes (born 1937), author and historian; Kansas City. Lois Ruby, author of historic fiction; Lawrence. Damon Runyon (1880–1946), author; Manhattan. Mary Francis Shura (1923–1990), children's, romance and mystery author; Pratt.
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After Kansas granted women the right to vote in municipal elections in February 1887, Susanna Madora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas on April 4, 1887, and became the first female mayor in the United States.