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U.S. Senators from Kansas:
Name Dates of Service
Class 2
James H. Lane (R)
Edmund G. Ross (R)
Alexander Caldwell (R)
Robert Crozier (R)
James M. Harvey (R)
Preston B. Plumb (R)
Bishop W. Perkins (R)
John Martin (D)
Lucien Baker (R)
Joseph R. Burton (R)
Alfred W. Benson (R)
Charles Curtis (R)
William H. Thompson (D)
Arthur Capper (R)
Andrew F. Schoeppel (R)
James B. Pearson (R)
Nancy Landon Kassebaum (R)
Pat Roberts (R)
1861-1866
1866-1871
1871-1873
1873-1874
1874-1877
1877-1891
1892-1893
1893-1895
1895-1901
1901-1906
1906-1907
1907-1913
1913-1919
1919-1949
1949-1962
1962-1978
1978-1997
1997---

Name Dates of Service
Class 3
Samuel C. Pomeroy (R)
John J. Ingalls (R)
William A. Peffer (P)
William A. Harris (PO)
Chester I. Long (R)
Joseph L. Bristow (R)
Charles Curtis (R)
Henry J. Allen (R)
George McGill (D)
Clyde M. Reed (R)
Harry Darby (R)
Frank Carlson (R)
Robert J. Dole (R)
Sheila Frahm (R)
Sam Brownback (R)
1861-1873
1873-1891
1891-1897
1897-1903
1903-1909
1909-1915
1915-1929
1929-1930
1930-1939
1939-1949
1949-1950
1950-1969
1969-1996
1996-1996
1996---

Senate Service
Longest Service (24 years or more):
Arthur Capper
Robert J. Dole
 
Kansas Senators Who Served in Leadership Positions
Senate President (U.S. Vice President): Charles Curtis

President Pro Tempore: John J. Ingalls, Charles Curtis

Majority Leader/Minority Leader: Charles Curtis, Robert J. Dole

Republican Conference Chairman: Charles Curtis

Standing Committee Chairs Since 1947:

Agriculture: Arthur Capper

Finance: Robert J. Dole

Labor and Human Resources: Nancy Landon Kassebaum

Post Office & Civil Service: Frank Carlson
Kansas Citizens Honored in the Capitol's Art Collection
Statuary: James Ingalls by Charles H. Niehaus (Statuary Hall); Washington Glick by Charles Niehaus (Hall of Columns).

Busts:

Vice President's Collection: Charles Curtis by Moses Dykaar (Senate wing, second floor, east corridor).
Portraits:Bob Dole, by Everett Raymond Kinstler (Senate Lobby).

Unusual Facts
Although a select committee of the U.S. Senate cleared him of all charges, Samuel C. Pomeroy lost renomination to a third term in 1873, when several legislators accused him of bribing state assembly delegates for their votes in his previous elections to the Senate. Pomeroy served the remainder of his term, until March 3, 1873.

Arthur Capper, who served for two consecutive terms as governor of Kansas, served five consecutive terms in the Senate. He was the first native-born Kansan to win election to either office.

 
  

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