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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasSam Dale BROWNBACK
(1956- )
Senate Years of Service:
1996-2011Party: RepublicanBROWNBACK, Sam Dale, a
Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Kans.,
September 12, 1956; grew up on his family’s farm near Parker,
Kans., and graduated from Prairie View High School, Linn County,
Kans.; graduated from Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans., in
1979; received law degree from University of Kansas, Lawrence, in
1982; administrator, broadcaster, teacher, attorney and author;
Kansas Secretary of Agriculture 1986-1993; White House Fellow
detailed to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 1990-1991;
elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourth Congress and
began serving January 3, 1995; not a candidate for reelection to
the United States House of Representatives in 1996, but was elected
to the United States Senate in a special election on November 5,
1996, to the unexpired portion of the term ending January 3, 1999,
left vacant by the resignation of Robert Dole; resigned from the
House of Representatives on November 27, 1996, retroactive to
November 7, 1996, when his Senate service began; reelected in 1998
and again in 2004, and served from November 7, 1996, to January 3,
2011; was not a candidate for reelection to the Senate in 2010.
Bibliography
Brownback, Sam. Kansas Agricultural Law. Topeka, Kans.: Lone
Tree Publishing Company, 1994 (2d ed.); Brownback, Sam, with Jim
Nelson Black, From Power to Purpose: A Remarkable Journey of
Faith and Compassion. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2007.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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