Famous People

James Henry Lane, a Democratic politician who became a Republican, was an outstanding leader of the antislavery movement in the Kansas Territory. He helped organize the Free State party in Kansas in 1855 and led the convention that wrote the Free State constitution at Topeka. Lane served in the U.S. Army as a colonel during the Mexican War and was the first U.S. Senator from Kansas. 

Andrew Schoeppel was a Republican who served as governor from 1943 to 1947. He signed a labor-control bill requiring union agents to be licensed and barring sit-down strikes.  Schoeppel became a U.S. Senator in 1948 and was re-elected in 1954 and 1960. He was born in Claffin, Kansas.

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