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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasCAPPER, Arthur
(1865—1951)
Senate Years of Service:
1919-1949
Party:
Republican
CAPPER, Arthur, a Senator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Anderson County, Kans., July 14, 1865; attended the common schools; learned the art of printing and subsequently became a newspaper reporter; owner and publisher of the Topeka Daily Capital, Capper’s Weekly, Capper’s Farmer, the Household Magazine, and other publications; owner of two radio stations; president of the board of regents, Kansas Agricultural College 1910-1913; founded The Capper Foundation, Topeka, Kans., in 1920; unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Kansas in 1912; Governor of Kansas 1915-1919; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1918; reelected in 1924, 1930, 1936, and again in 1942 and served from March 4, 1919, to January 3, 1949; was not a candidate for renomination in 1948; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture (Sixty-sixth Congress), Committee on Claims (Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses), Committee on District of Columbia (Sixty-ninth through Seventy-second Congresses), Committee on Agriculture and Forestry (Eightieth Congress); returned to Topeka, Kans., and continued publishing business; died in Topeka, Kans., December 19, 1951; interment in Topeka Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography
; American National Biography
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. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and Co., 1922; Socolofsky, Homer E. Arthur Capper, Publisher, Politician, and Philanthropist
. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1962.
Capper, Arthur. Addresses and Messages by Arthur Capper, Twenty-Second Governor of Kansas
. Topeka: Capper Printing Co., n.d.
___. The Agricultural Bloc
. 1922. Reprint. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1972.
___. Citizenship.
New York: The University Society, 1933.
Crowley, Byron Monroe. “The Public Career of Arthur Capper Prior to His Senatorial Service.” Master’s thesis, Kansas State Teachers College of Pittsburg, 1938.
Galentine, Shane N. “The Forgotten Candidate: Omar B. Ketchum and the Senate Race of 1936.” Kansas History
13 (Summer 1990): 97-106.
Grant, Philip A., Jr. “The Kansas Congressional Delegation and the Lend-Lease Act of 1941.” Kansas History
14 (Summer 1991): 72-81.
___. “The Kansas Congressional Delegation and the Selective Service Act of 1940.” Kansas History
2 (Autumn 1979): 196-205.
Nathan, Meyer. “The Election of 1916 in Kansas.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
35 (1969): 50-63.
O’Brien, Patrick G. “Validity of Historical Characterizations: Capper and Curtis.” Southwestern Social Science Quarterly
48 (June 1967): 624-31.
Partin, John W. “The Dilemma of ‘A Good, Very Good Man’: Capper and Noninterventionism, 1936-1941.” Kansas History
2 (Summer 1979): 86-95.
Socolofsky, Homer E. Arthur Capper, Publisher, Politician, and Philanthropist
. Lawrence: University of Kansas Press, 1962.
___. “Arthur Capper: Vote-Getter, Par Excellence.” Journal of the West
13 (October 1974): 26-39.
___. “The Capper Farm Press Experience in Western Agricultural Journalism.” Journal of the West
19 (April 1980): 22-29.
___. “The Development of the Capper Farm Press.” Agricultural History
31 (October 1957): 34-43.
___. “The Evolution of a Home Grown Product, Capper Publications.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
24 (Summer 1958): 151-67.
___. “A Kansas Romance of the Gay Nineties.” Midwest Quarterly
3 (October 1961): 81-93.
___. “Twenty-one and All Is Well: Arthur Capper in Topeka, 1886.” Kansas History
6 (Winter 1983/84): 202-11.
___, ed. “The Private Journals of Florence Crawford and Arthur Capper, 1891-1892.” Kansas Historical Quarterly
30 (Spring 1964): 15-61; (Summer 1964): 129-208.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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