Secretary of State of Kansas

The Secretary of State of Kansas is one of the constitutional officers of the U.S. state of Kansas. They are in charge of administering elections and voter registration for Kansas. They also get campaign finance reports. They are also able to prosecute people for voter fraud.^[1]

Secretary of State of the State of Kansas
Incumbent Scott Schwab since January 14, 2019
Inaugural holder	John Winter Robinson
Formation	February 1861
Website	sos.kansas.gov

The current Secretary of State is Scott Schwab. He has been secretary since January 14, 2019.^[2]

History

The first Secretary of State for Kansas was John Winter Robinson. He was a doctor from Litchfield, Maine, but he moved to Manhattan, Kansas in 1857. Robinson was elected in December 1859. He became secretary in February 1861, after Kansas became a state.^[3]

List of secretaries

Secretaries in the Kansas Territory

Name	Term	Party
Daniel Woodson	1854–1857	Democratic
Frederick P. Stanton	1857	Democratic
James W. Denver	1857–1858	Democratic
Hugh Sleight Walsh	1858–1860	Democratic
George M. Beebe	1860–1861	Democratic

State

Name	Term	Party
John Winter Robinson	1861–1862	Republican
Sanders Rufus Shepherd	1862–1863	Republican
Warren Wirt Henry Lawrence	1863–1865	Republican
Rinaldo Allen Barker	1865–1869	Republican
Thomas Moonlight	1869–1871	Republican
William Hillary Smallwood	1871–1875	Republican
Thomas Horne Cavanaugh	1875–1879	Republican
James Smith	1879–1885	Republican
Edwin Bird Allen	1885–1889	Republican
William Higgins	1889–1893	Republican
Russell Scott Osborn	1893–1895	Populist
William Corydon Edwards	1895–1897	Republican
William Eben Bush	1897–1899	Populist
George Alfred Clark	1899–1903	Republican
Joel Randall Burrow	1903–1907	Republican
Charles Eugene Denton	1907–1911	Republican
Charles Harrison Sessions	1911–1915	Republican
John Thomas Botkin	1915–1919	Republican
Lewis Julian Pettijohn	1919–1922	Republican
David Owen McCray	1922–1923	Republican
Frank Joseph Ryan	1923–1929	Republican
Edgbert Albert Cornell	1929–1933	Republican
Frank Joseph Ryan	1933–1949	Republican
Larry Ryan	1949–1951	Democratic
Paul R. Shanahan	1951–1966	Republican
Elwill M. Shanahan	1966–1978	Republican
Jack Brier	1978–1987	Republican
Bill Graves	1987–1995	Republican
Ron Thornburgh	1995–2010	Republican
Chris Biggs	2010–2011	Democratic
Kris Kobach	2011–2019	Republican
Scott Schwab	2019–present	Republican