Leading the Way: Famous Kansans

He served as Kansas governor, U.S. Senator, newspaper publisher, and generous philanthropist. He grew up in Garnett.

He was an author, poet, editor, and journalist who was instrumental in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s as well as the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s. He went to college in Manhattan.

A journalist, writer, and producer-director, she is chief correspondent for the Newshour with Jim Lehrer on PBS television. She grew up in Topeka.

From the perspective of a Congregationalist this Topeka minister published the novel In His Steps about modern people who chose to live as Jesus would.

An educator, author, and presidential advisor from Truman to Nixon, he wrote The President is Calling about the job of being a U.S. president. He lived in Abilene and Manhattan.

He served as press secretary under two U.S. presidents, Ronald Reagan and George Bush, after growing up on a farm near Abilene.

While president and chief executive officer of National Public Radio he worked to make it the leading provider of high quality news, information, and cultural programming worldwide. He was born in Arkansas City, raised in Kansas City, attended the University of Kansas, and received his law degree from Washburn University in Topeka.

As the first woman in the United States to become an official war reporter she reported on several wars including World War I and II. She was born near Bennington and later moved to Marysville and Junction City.

After writing for the Saturday Evening Post she and her husband founded the New Yorker magazine. She went to school and graduated in Girard.

As the first Native American to lead an American archdiosese he believes that it is possible to "be wholly Catholic and wholly Native American." He was born and raised in Concordia.