Some Kansas Facts:
Became a state on January 29, 1861.
The capital is Topeka.
Oldest city is Leavenworth.
Largest city is Wichita.
Wichita is the Air capital of the world, because of companies such as Boeing, Cessna, Learjet, and Raytheon.
Nicknames are the Sunflower State, Breadbasket of America, Jayhawker State, Wheat State, and Midway U.S.A.
Acres of land is 52,656,000.
Longest river is Arkansas River.
Largest state park is El Dorado.
President from this state was Dwight D. Eisenhower 1952
State song is "Home On The Range"
State flower is the Sunflower.
State tree is the Cottonwood.
State bird is the Meadow Lark (selected by Kansas school children in 1937.)
State insect is the Honey bee.
State animal is the American bisen or Buffalo 1955.
State reptile is the Ornate Box Turtle.
Some famous people from Kansas are:
- Kirstie Alley...Actress starring in Cheers and Veronica’s Closet...Wichita
- Roscoe Fatty Arbuckle...actor...Smith Center
- Clarence D. Batchelor...political cartoonist...Osage City
- Walter Beech...aviation...Wichita.
- Gwendolyn Brooks...poet...Topeka
- George Washington Carver...scientist...Minneapolis Kansas High School.
- Walter P. Chrysler...auto manufacturer...Wamego
- Clark M. Clifford...secretary of defense...Fort Scott
- John Steuart Curry...painter...Dunavant
- Bob Dole...politician...Russell
- Amelia Earhart...aviator...Atchison
- Dwight D. Eisenhower...34th president of USA...Abilene
- Milton S. Eisenhower...educator...Abilene
- Carl A. Hatch...politician...Kirwin
- James "Wild Bill" Hickok...U.S....marshal in the Old West.
- Dennis Hopper...actor...Dodge City
- William Inge...playwright...Independence
- Walter Johnson...baseball pitcher...Humboldt
- Buster Keaton...comedian...Piqua
- Emmett Kelly... clown...Sedan
- Stan Kenton...jazz musician...Wichita
- Shirlee Knight...actress
- Harold Lloyd... actor...Burchard
- William Lear...aviation...Wichita.
- Edgar Lee Masters...poet..Garnett
- Hattie McDaniel...actress...Wichita
- William C. Menninger...psychiatrist...Topeka
- Gordon Parks...film director...Fort Scott
- Zasu Pitts...actress...Parsons
- Charles Buddy Rogers... actor...Olathe
- Damon Runyon...journalist...Manhattan
- Barry Sanders...football player...Wichita
- Eugene W. Smith...photojournalist...Wichita
- William E. Stafford...poet...Hutchinson
- John Cameron Swayze...news commentator...Atchison
- Darnell Valentine...1980 U.S. Olympic Team...Wichita
- Vivan Vance...actress...Cherryvale
- William Allen White...journalist...Emporia
- Charles E. Whittaker...jurist...Troy
- Lynette Woodard...Basketball gold medal Olympics, Globetrotter...Wichita,
Kansas entrepreneurs invented the autopilot, the helicopter and the O'Henry candy bar. And native Walter P. Chrysler founded a cornestone of the automobile industry; the Chrysler Corporation. Pizza Hut and Coleman was also started in Kansas.
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