Summary
BROWNBACK, Sam Dale, a Representative and a Senator from Kansas; born in Garnett, Kans.,
September 12, 1956; grew up on his familys farm near Parker, Kans., and
graduated from Prairie View High School, Linn County, Kans.; graduated from
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kans., in 1979; received law degree from
University of Kansas, Lawrence, in 1982; administrator, broadcaster, teacher,
attorney and author; Kansas Secretary of Agriculture 1986-1993; White House
Fellow detailed to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative 1990-1991;
elected as a Republican to the One Hundred Fourth Congress and began serving
January 3, 1995; not a candidate for reelection to the United States House of
Representatives in 1996, but was elected to the United States Senate in a
special election on November 5, 1996, to the unexpired portion of the term
ending January 3, 1999, left vacant by the resignation of Robert Dole; resigned
from the House of Representatives on November 27, 1996, retroactive to November
7, 1996, when his Senate service began; reelected in 1998 and again in 2004,
and served from November 7, 1996, to January 3, 2011; was not a candidate for
reelection to the Senate in 2010.