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William Addison Phillips

Portrait of William Addison Phillips, an author, lawyer, journalist and politician. In 1857, Phillips attended the Constitution Convention at Topeka and the Free State Conventions at Centropolis, Lawrence, and Grasshopper Falls. He founded the town of Salina in April, 1858. In that same month and year, Phillips was nominated at the Topeka Free-State Convention under the Leavenworth Constitution to serve as a supreme court judge. He attended the Convention at Osawatomie and the Republican State Convention at Lawrence in 1859. Phillips served in the Kansas Volunteer Regiments and rose to the rank of colonel. From March 4, 1873 to March 3, 1875 Phillips was an at large representative to the United States Congress and from March 4, 1875 to March 3, 1879 he represented the First District.

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William Alfred Peffer

Leonard, J. H.

William Alfred Peffer was the first Populist senator elected to U.S. Congress. He was born in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, on September 10, 1831. As a young man he traveled across the country, living in California, Indiana, Missouri, and Illinois. After the outbreak of Civil War, Peffer enlisted in the 83rd Illinois Infantry, entering as a private and working his way up to the rank of second lieutenant. He read law while still in the military, and after his discharge in 1865 he was admitted to the bar and began practicing law in Clarksville, Tennessee. Five years later he moved to Fredonia, Kansas, where he established another practice and edited the Fredonia Journal. Peffer served as a state senator from 1874 to 1876, and during his tenure he relocated to Coffeyville, Kansas, where he assumed editorial control of the Coffeyville Journal. Then, in 1881, he launched the Populist publication Kansas Farmer, one of his best-known contributions to this agrarian reform movement. Peffer was instrumental in the creation of the People?s (Populist) Party, serving as a Populist U.S. Senator from 1891 to 1897 and running again (unsuccessfully) for re-election in 1896. Two years later, he ran an unsuccessful campaign for Governor of Kansas, losing the election to Republican William Stanley. Peffer died in 1912 in Grenola, Kansas, at the age of 81.

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Edmund Gibson Ross

Portait of Edmund Gibson Ross, U.S. Senator from Kansas. Ross helped raise and then served in the Eleventh Kansas during the Civil War. After James H. Lane's death by suicide in 1866, Ross was appointed and subsequently elected to the Lane seat in the U.S. Senate. While serving as senator from Kansas in 1868, Ross won fame as the senator who cast the deciding vote for acquittal in the impeachment trial of President Johnson.

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Robert J. Dole

This formal portrait shows Robert Joseph Dole, 1923-2021, a World War II veteran and a former U.S. Senator from Kansas. During World War II he served in the Army's Reserve Corps, and became a second lieutenant in the Army's 10th Mountain Division. He earned two Purple Hearts for injuries received in combat, and the Bronze Star Medal with combat "V" for valor in his attempt to help a downed radio man. The start of his political career came in 1950, when he was elected to the Kansas House of Representatives and served a two year term. In 1960, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas' 6th congressional district. In 1968, he was elected a U.S. Senator, a position he would retain until resigning in 1996 to campaign for the U.S. Presidential election. He lost the election to incumbent President Bill Clinton.

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Watson Stewart

This photograph shows Watson Stewart, (1827-1910). Stewart a native of Miami County, Ohio migrated with his brother Samuel in 1856 to the Kansas Territory. The brothers were members of the Kansas Vegetarian Emigration Company that settled in Allen County, Kansas near the town of Humboldt. Watson quickly became a prominent member of the community when he was appointed in 1858 to Justice of the Peace for Allen County. The following year he accepted the nomination to serve in the senate of the territorial legislature. The start of the Civil War put a temporary hold on his political career. Stewart was commissioned as a major into the Allen County Battalion of Company A. This local militia of men protected the military posts in and around Humboldt and Ft. Scott, Kansas. After the war Stewart was elected in 1865 to the Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican from the Fifty-Fourth District. He served only one term before President Lincoln appointed Stewart as Register of the U.S. Land Office in Humboldt. A position he was re-appointed to by President Grant in 1869. When the land office moved to Independence, Kansas at the end of 1871, Stewart chose to remain in Humboldt bringing his career as a civil servant to a close. He returned to private life to resume his interest in real estate. Earlier Stewart had owned and operated a real estate business in the Humboldt area. In April of 1877, he moved to Independence, Kansas and opened a new real estate, and insurance office. Stewart owned the business for a number of years before selling it in 1894. In his remaining years Stewart and his wife Elizabeth traveled across Kansas and other parts of the country. On August 3, 1910, Watson Stewart's long and successful life came to an end when he passed away at the age of eight-three in Colorado Springs, Colorado.

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Erastus Johnson Turner

Leonard & Martin

This cabinet card shows Erastus Johnson Turner, a lawyer and politician from Hoxie, Kansas. A native of Erie County, Pennsylvania and the son of a Methodist minister. He lived in several states before locating to Henry, Illinois, in 1859 to attend college; a year later he moved to Bloomfield, Iowa. The start of the Civil War put a temporary hold on Turner's future plans. He enlisted with Company E of the Thirteenth Regiment of the Iowa Volunteer Infantry and was assigned to the Provost Marshal's Office. Turner served in Louisville, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee until mustering out in July 1865. After the war, he resumed his education by attending Adrian College of Michigan (1866-1868) where he received his degree in 1868. Turner passed the bar in 1871 and began practicing law in Michigan and Iowa before migrating to Hoxie, Kansas in 1879. In the northwest Kansas town he became a prominent member in the community through his law practice, real estate ventures, and ownership of a sheep ranch on the south banks of the Solomon River. He also served two terms as a Republican (1881-1885) in the Kansas House of Representatives from District 125. In addition to his political responsibilities, Turner was elected secretary of the Kansas Board of Railroad Commissioners. He held this position from April 1, 1883 to August 1, 1886. His political career continued to intensify when Turner was elected two terms, 1887-1891, to the U. S. House of Representatives. He served as a Republican in the Fiftieth and Fifty-first Congresses until he returned to private life in 1891. For a number of years, Turner practiced law in Washington, D.C. and Seattle, Washington. On February 10, 1933, Turner passed away at the age of eighty-seven in Los Angeles, California. Burial was conducted at Forest Lawn Mausoleum, Glendale, California.

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Preston B. Plumb

Albert, A, Ashtabula, Ohio

This photograph copied from an original shows Preston B. Plumb, 1837-1891, a major in the 11th Kansas Volunteer Cavalry. Plumb was a newspaper editor and publisher from Berkshire, Ohio, who settled in the Kansas territory in 1856. Plumb was a supporter of the Free State movement and founder of Emporia, Kansas. In 1858, he was a delegate to the Leavenworth Constitutional Convention. Three years later, in 1861, Plumb was elected as a Republican to the Kansas House of Representatives. Following the start of the Civil War Plumb enlisted in the Union Army as a second lieutenant with the 11th Kansas Infantry.The regiment was later reassigned as the 11th Kansas Cavalry in 1863. Plumb served as captain, major, and lieutenant colonel. During the war he was involved in several skirmishes and battles including: Prairie Grove, Price's Raid, and Westport. At the close of the war, Plumb returned to Kansas. He resumed his political career by serving in the Kansas House of Representatives from 1867 to 1868. Plumb did not seek reelection, in 1869, and returned to private life in Emporia, Kansas. For several years Plumb practiced law and banking until 1877 when he was elected to the U.S. Senate. He served for fourteen years as a U.S. Senator from Kansas and was responsible for passing major legislation that preserved the conservation of natural resources in the United States. On December 20, 1891, Preston B. Plumb passed away at the age of fifty-four while serving in office.

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