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| Capital: Topeka State Nickname: Sunflower State State Bird: West Meadowlark State Flower: Native Sunflower Admitted to the Union: January 29, 1861 February 9, 1861 to January 12, 1863: Charles Robinson January 12, 1863 to January 9, 1865: Thomas Carney January 9, 1865 to November 4, 1868: Samuel J. Crawford November 4, 1868 to January 11, 1869: Nehemiah Green January 11, 1869 to January 13, 1873: James Madison Harvey January 13, 1873 to January 18, 1877: Thomas A. Osborn January 18, 1877 to January 13, 1879: George T. Anthony January 13, 1879 to January 8, 1883: Pohn P. St. John January 8, 1883 to January 13, 1885: George Washington Glick January 13, 1885 to January 14, 1889: John A. Martin January 14, 1889 to January 9, 1893: Lyman U. Humphrey January 9, 1893 to January 14, 1895: Lorenzo D. Lewelling January 14, 1895 to January 11, 1897: Edmund N. Morrill January 11, 1897 to January 9, 1899: John W. Leedy January 9, 1899 to January 12, 1903: William E. Stanley January 12, 1903 to January 9, 1905: Willis J. Bailey January 9, 1905 to January 11, 1909: Edward W. Hoch January 11, 1909 to January 13, 1913: Walter R. Stubbs January 13, 1913 to January 11, 1915: George H. Hodges January 11, 1915 to January 13, 1919: Arthur Capper January 13, 1919 to January 8, 1923: Henry J. Allen January 8, 1923 to January 12, 1925: Jonathan McM. Davis January 12, 1925 to January 14, 1929: Ben S. Paulen January 14, 1929 to January 12, 1931: Clyde M. Reed January 12, 1931 to January 9, 1933: Henry W. Woodring January 9, 1933 to January 11, 1937: Alfred M. Landon January 11, 1937 to January 9, 1939: Walter A. Huxman January 9, 1939 to January 11, 1943: Payne H. Ratner January 11, 1943 to January 13, 1947: andrew F. Schoeppel January 13, 1947 to November 28, 1950: Frank Carlson November 28, 1950 to January 8, 1951: Frank L. Hagaman January 8, 1951 to January 10, 1955: Edward F. Arn January 10, 1955 to January 3, 1957: Frederick L. Hall January 3, 1957 to January 14, 1957: John McCuish January 14, 1957 to January 9, 1961: George Docking January 19, 1961 to January 11, 1965: John Anderson, Jr. January 11, 1965 to January 9, 1967: William H. Avery January 9, 1967 to January 13, 1975: Robert B. Docking January 13, 1975 to January 8, 1979: Robert F. Bennett January 8, 1979 to January 12, 1987: John Carlin January 12, 1987 to January 14, 1991: Mike Hayden January 14, 1991 to January 9, 1995: Joan Finney January 9, 1995 to 2003: Bill Graves 2003 -- Kathleen Sebelius
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Home on the Range | Written by Brewster Higley
Oh, give me a home, where the buffalo roam, | Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day. Chorus Where the air is so pure, the zephyrs so free, The breezes so balmy and light, That I would not exchange my home on the range For all the cities so bright. Chorus Oh, give me a land where the bright diamond sand Flows leisurely down the stream; Where the graceful white swan goes gliding along Like a maid in a heavenly dream. Chorus The red man was pressed from this part of the West, He's likly no more to return To the banks of Red River where seldom if ever Their flickering campfires burn. Chorus How often at night when the heavens are bright With the light of the glittering stars, Have I stood here amazed and asked as I gazed If their glory exceeds that of ours. Chorus Oh, I love these wild flowers in this dear land of ours; The curlew I love to hear scream; And I love the white rocks and the antelope flocks That graze on the mountain-tops green. Chorus Then I would not exchange my home on the range, Where the deer and the antelope play; Where seldom is heard a discouraging word And the skies are not cloudy all day. Chorus Home, home on the range, Where the deer and the antelope play, Where seldom is heard a discouraging word, And the skies are not cloudy all day.
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| 1860: 107,206 1870: 364,399 1880: 996,096 1890: 1.427,096 1900: 1,470,495 1910: 1,690,040 1920: 1,769,257 1930: 1,880,999 1940: 1,801,028 1950: 1,905,299 1960: 2,178,611 1970: 2,249,071 1980: 2,363,808 1990: 2,477,574 2000: 2,688,814
|  State Capitol Building 1907 |
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