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Theodore D. Saar
Theodore D. "Ted" Saar Jr. (April 25, 1918 – October 22, 1981) was an American politician who served as a Democrat in the Kansas State Senate from 1963 to 1976. Saar was born in Chanute, Kansas and worked as a railroad engineer. He was originally appointed to the Kansas Senate in 1963, to fill the unexpired term of F.O. Doty, who resigned the 9th district seat. He was re-elected in his own right in 1964 (switching districts to the 1st), switched districts again in 1968 to run in the 8th, and finally served for one term in the 13th In music or music theory, a thirteenth is the Musical note, note thirteen scale degrees from the root (chord), root of a chord (music), chord and also the interval (music), interval between the root and the thirteenth. The thirteenth is m ... Senate district. References Democratic Party Kansas state senators People from Chanute, Kansas 1918 births 1981 deaths 20th-century members of the Kansas Legislature {{Kansas-politicia ...
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Chanute, Kansas
Chanute () is a city in Neosho County, Kansas, Neosho County, Kansas, United States. Founded on January 1, 1873, it was named after railroad engineer and aviation pioneer Octave Chanute. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 8,722. Chanute is home of Neosho County Community College. History In 1870 when the Leavenworth, Lawrence & Galveston Rail Road (later the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, now the BNSF Railway) crossed the Missouri, Kansas and Texas line within the limits of Neosho county four rival towns sprang up, in the vicinity of the junction: New Chicago, Chicago Junction, Alliance, and Tioga. Two years of the most bitter animosity ensued until the four were consolidated in 1872, and the name of Chanute given it in honor of Octave Chanute, a railroad civil engineer. Settlers had begun populating the area as early as 1856. With the LL&G Railroad set to arrive shortly thereafter, the early residents of the towns of Tioga, Chicag ...
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Pittsburg, Kansas
Pittsburg is a city in Crawford County, Kansas, Crawford County, Kansas, United States, located in southeast Kansas near the Missouri state border. It is the most populous city in Crawford County and southeast Kansas. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 20,646. It is the home of Pittsburg State University. History On October 23, 1864, a wagon train of refugees had come from Fort Smith, Arkansas, and was escorted by troops from the 6th Regiment Kansas Volunteer Cavalry, 6th Kansas Cavalry under the command of Col. William Campbell. These were local men from Cherokee, Crawford, and Bourbon counties. Their enlistment was over, and they were on their way to Fort Leavenworth to be dismissed from service. They ran into the 1st Indian Brigade led by Maj. Andrew Jackson Piercy near the current Pittsburg Waste Water Treatment Plant. They continued to the north when a small group of wagons broke away in an unsuccessful rush to safety. ...
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Kansas's 13th Senate District
Kansas's 13th Senate district is one of 40 districts in the Kansas Senate. It has been represented by Republican Party (United States), Republican Tim Shallenburger since his 2023 appointment to replace fellow Republican Richard Hilderbrand. Geography District 13 covers Cherokee County, Kansas, Cherokee County, Crawford County, Kansas, Crawford County, and parts of Bourbon County, Kansas, Bourbon and Labette County, Kansas, Labette Counties in the Southeast Kansas, southeastern corner of the state. Communities in the district include Pittsburg, Kansas, Pittsburg, Fort Scott, Kansas, Fort Scott, Baxter Springs, Kansas, Baxter Springs, Columbus, Kansas, Columbus, Galena, Kansas, Galena, Frontenac, Kansas, Frontenac, and Girard, Kansas, Girard. The district is located entirely within Kansas's 2nd congressional district, and overlaps with the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 7th districts of the Kansas House of Representatives. It borders the states of Missouri and Oklahoma. Recent election ...
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