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This article is a list of notable individuals who were born in and/or have lived in Leavenworth, Kansas.For people whose only connection with the city is being incarcerated at one of the prisons in the city see List of inmates of United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, United States Disciplinary Barracks#Notable inmates or Midwest Joint Regional Correctional Facility#Notable inmates, and for ...
Held at USP Leavenworth from 1939 to 1940. Political boss in Kansas City, Missouri who engaged in bribery and voter intimidation; discovered and supported Harry Truman in the 1934 United States Senate election in Missouri; convicted of tax evasion in 1939. [14]
The Western Branch of the National Home for Disabled Soldiers was established in 1885 in Leavenworth, Kansas to house aging veterans of the American Civil War.The 214-acre (87 ha) campus (formerly 640 acres (260 ha)) is near Fort Leavenworth, and is directly adjacent to Leavenworth National Cemetery, south of Leavenworth town.
As a young boy, William Frederick "Buffalo Bill" Cody and his family moved to Fort Leavenworth in Kansas Territory. [1] The following is a list of people from Leavenworth County, Kansas. The area includes Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort Leavenworth, Lansing, and rural areas in the county. Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people ...
Sparks was born on July 29, 1933 in Leavenworth, Kansas and grew up in Oakland, California. [1] He attended the University of California at Berkeley.His first musical engagement was at the Purple Onion in San Francisco. [3]
Leavenworth (/ ˈ l ɛ v ə n ˌ w ɜːr θ /) is the county seat and largest city of Leavenworth County, Kansas, United States [1] and is part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 37,351. [5] [6] It is located on the west bank of the Missouri River.
David Hillhouse Buel was born on September 19, 1839, in Marshall, Michigan, to Samuel Buel and Jane Buel née Wilmer. [1] He enrolled as a cadet at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York, on September 1, 1857, graduating on June 24, 1861.
Scalapino was born to Anthony and Beulah Stephenson Scalapino in Leavenworth, Kansas. In 1940, he completed his bachelor's degree at Santa Barbara College, now the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was student body president in his last year. [2] He married Ida Mae Jessen, the next year on August 23, 1941.