• Joan Marie Finney (née McInroy; February 12, 1925 – July 28, 2001) was an American politician who served as the 42nd governor of Kansas from 1991 to 1995...
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    who won the open seat vacated by the pending retirement of Governor Joan Finney. He defeated Jim Slattery. Bill Graves, Secretary of State of Kansas...
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    Mike Hayden lost re-election to Democratic nominee Joan Finney. The State Treasurer at the time, Finney was elected governor over Hayden in 1990, giving...
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    Joan Finney Succeeded by Kathleen Sebelius 28th Secretary of State of Kansas In office January 12, 1987 – January 9, 1995 Governor Mike Hayden Joan Finney...
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  • Wichita City Council, in 1979. He also served under Democratic Governor Joan Finney as Kansas Secretary of Commerce and Housing. He is generally known as...
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    Retrieved August 22, 2023. "Joan Finney". National Governors Association. Retrieved February 28, 2023. "Joan Marie Finney (1991-1995)". State Library...
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  • appointed Secretary of Commerce by Governor Joan Finney at the start of Finney's administration. Finney claimed to have dismissed Owen in June 1992,...
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  • Retired Phil Batt Idaho Cecil D. Andrus Retired Bill Graves Kansas Joan Finney Retired Gary Johnson New Mexico Bruce King Defeated George Pataki New...
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  • held it for one term (1987–1990), but failed to be re-elected, Democrat Joan Finney held the governorship for one term (1991–1994) and did not run again...
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  • Rell  Iowa Kevin Reynolds* 2017 Kim Reynolds  Kansas Spencer Finney Jr. 1991 Joan Finney K. Gary Sebelius 2003 Kathleen Sebelius Ted Daughety* 2019 Laura...
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  • W. Green (1949-01-15) January 15, 1949 (age 75) April 22, 1993 2026 Joan Finney (D) Kansas 11 Thomas E. Malone (1953-12-29) December 29, 1953 (age 70)...
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    Arizona. Elevated from Secretary of State. Retired 2 years, 336 days Joan Finney (1925–2001) Kansas January 14, 1991 January 9, 1995 Democratic First...
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  • Kansas Territorial Legislature, Justice of the Vermont Supreme Court Joan Finney, 42nd governor of Kansas Nehemiah Green, 4th governor of Kansas Tom Hawk...
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    defeating Shallenburger to become the second female Governor of Kansas after Joan Finney who served as governor from 1991 to 1995. Kathleen Sebelius, Kansas Insurance...
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  • she has served in the Kansas State Senate, in the cabinet of Governor Joan Finney, and as a district judge in Shawnee County, Kansas. Parrish grew up in...
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  • modern era. The law became effective on July 1, after then-Governor Joan Finney, despite her proclaimed opposition to capital punishment, decided to...
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  • was a juvenile. Hayden would lose the election to Democratic opponent Joan Finney in November. On November 4, the jury deliberated for twelve hours before...
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    property tax law. Slattery decided not to run in 1990, however, and Joan Finney became the first female governor of Kansas. In 1993, Slattery orchestrated...
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    nine counties from southwestern Kansas. In May 1992, Kansas Governor Joan Finney signed into law a new school finance formula that adversely affected...
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    lost the Democratic nomination for governor to then-State Treasurer Joan Finney. He also ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives in...
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    Democratic challenger Joan Finney. Finney was the pro-life state treasurer and took over the polls so much that Hayden could not catch up. Finney beat Hayden in...
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    the church members. Democratic primary for Governor of Kansas, 1990 Joan Finney: 81,250 (47.18%) John Carlin: 79,406 (46.11%) Fred Phelps: 11,572 (6...
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  • Frederick (R) Shelby Smith (R) Elwill M. Shanahan (R) Curt T. Schneider (D) Joan Finney (D) Fletcher Bell (R) 27R, 13D 72R, 53D James B. Pearson (R) Bob Dole...
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    businesswoman and daughter-in-law of former Kansas Governor Robert Docking Joan Finney, former Governor of Kansas and former Kansas State Treasurer Sam Brownback...
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  • Edward Erickson (1863–1946; 1890) – Governor of Montana and U.S. Senator Joan Finney (1925–2001; B.A. '82; D.P.S. '95) – 42nd Governor of Kansas (1991–95;...
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    daughter-in-law of former Kansas Governor Robert Docking, who herself had defeated Joan Finney in the Democratic primary. Brownback would remain in office until 2011...
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    convention. The proclamation of the state was a protest due to Governor Joan Finney both increasing rural taxation and decreasing rural school funding. No...
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  • later a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors (1978). 1973 – Joan Finney, later Kansas State Treasurer (1974–1991) and Governor of Kansas (1991–1995)...
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  • his appointment to the court. In 1993, he was appointed by Governor Joan Finney to be a judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals. Judge Green biography "KS...
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  • Governor of Iowa: Terry E. Branstad (Republican) Governor of Kansas: Joan Finney (Democratic) Governor of Kentucky: Brereton Jones (Democratic) Governor...
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