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Charles Edward Sims (4 May 19258 August 1983) was the State Librarian of Kansas from 1973 to 1975. Sims was born in
Rantoul, Kansas Rantoul is a city in Franklin County, Kansas, Franklin County, Kansas, United States. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population of the city was 165. History The first post office in Rantoul was established in 1862. It wa ...
, a small town in east central
Kansas Kansas ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders Nebraska to the north; Missouri to the east; Oklahoma to the south; and Colorado to the west. Kansas is named a ...
. He was inducted into the
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in 1943 as a weapons mechanic, re-arming aircraft. After the war, Sims attended the
University of Kansas The University of Kansas (KU) is a public research university with its main campus in Lawrence, Kansas, United States. Two branch campuses are in the Kansas City metropolitan area on the Kansas side: the university's medical school and hospital ...
in
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, earning a degree in Library Management. He worked as a high school librarian and later as a consultant for the Kansas Employment Security Division. He was appointed the State Librarian of Kansas by Governor Robert Docking in 1973. He held the position until the end of Docking's term in 1975 when he was fired by the incoming governor. Sims died of a heart attack in
Topeka, Kansas Topeka ( ) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Kansas and the county seat of Shawnee County. It is along the Kansas River in the central part of Shawnee County, in northeastern Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2020 cen ...
, on 8 August 1983.


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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sims, Charles Edward 1925 births 1983 deaths University of Kansas alumni American librarians