USS "Atchison County" was Named for counties in Kansas and Missouri established in honor of a senator who passed away in which year ?
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USS LST-60 USS "Atchison County" (LST-60) was an "LST-1"-class tank landing ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. Named for counties in Kansas and Missouri established in honor of David Rice Atchison, a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri, she was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
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David Rice Atchison David Rice Atchison (August 11, 1807January 26, 1886) was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years. Atchison served as a major general in the Missouri State Militia in 1838 during Missouri's Mormon War and as a Confederate brigadier general during the American Civil War under Major General Sterling Price in the Missouri Home Guard. He is best known for the questionable claim that for one day (March 4, 1849) he may have been Acting President of the United States. This belief, however, is dismissed by nearly all historians, scholars, and biographers.
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Robert Docking Robert Blackwell Docking (October 9, 1925October 8, 1983) was the 38th Governor of Kansas from 1967 until 1975.
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Robert S. Lewis Robert S. Lewis (August 15, 1856 – May 23, 1956) was a North Dakota Republican Party politician who served as the seventh Lieutenant Governor of North Dakota under Governor John Burke. Lewis also served in the North Dakota Senate from 1901 to 1905. Lewis died in 1956 at the age of 99, only few months shy of his 100th birthday, making him the oldest statewide officer in the state's history.
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James P. Kem James Preston Kem (April 2, 1890February 24, 1965) was an American politician representing Missouri in the United States Senate from 1947 to 1953.
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William Marmaduke Kavanaugh William Marmaduke Kavanaugh (March 3, 1866February 21, 1915) was a Democratic United States Senator from the State of Arkansas.
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Clark County, Missouri Clark County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county's population was 7,139. Its county seat is Kahoka. The county was organized December 16, 1836 and named for William Clark, leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition and later Governor of Missouri Territory.
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Karl M. Le Compte Karl Miles Le Compte (May 25, 1887 – September 30, 1972) was a ten-term Republican U.S. Representative from south-central Iowa. He won ten consecutive races from 1938 to 1956, before choosing not to run again in 1958.
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Thomas Jefferson Rusk Thomas Jefferson Rusk (December 5, 1803July 29, 1857) was an early political and military leader of the Republic of Texas, serving as its first Secretary of War as well as a general at the Battle of San Jacinto. He was later a US politician and served as a Senator from Texas from 1846 until his suicide. He served as the President pro tempore of the United States Senate in 1857.
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Alfred W. Benson Alfred Washburn Benson (July 15, 1843January 1, 1916) was a United States Senator from Kansas.
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Johnson County, Missouri Johnson County is a county located in western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 52,595. Its county seat is Warrensburg. The county was formed December 13, 1834 from Lafayette County and named for Vice President Richard M. Johnson.
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Winston L. Prouty Winston Lewis Prouty (September 1, 1906September 10, 1971) was an American politician. A member of the Republican Party, he served as a United States Senator from Vermont from 1959 until his death from gastric cancer in Boston, Massachusetts on September 10, 1971. He was previously a member of the United States House of Representatives, serving Vermont's At-large congressional district, from 1951 to 1959.
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Barton County, Missouri Barton County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 12,402. Its county seat is Lamar. The county was organized in 1855 and named after U.S. Senator David Barton from Missouri.
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Doug Moseley Douglas Dewayne Moseley, known as Doug Moseley (born March 24, 1928), is a retired United Methodist minister and author who served as a Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate from 1974 to 1986. The Senate district included the eight counties of Adair, Clinton, Cumberland, Green, Metcalfe, Russell, Taylor and Wayne and at times Casey and a part of McCreary counties.
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George H. Moses George Higgins Moses (February 9, 1869December 20, 1944) was a U.S. diplomat and political figure. He served as a United States Senator from New Hampshire and was chosen as the Senate's President pro tempore.
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Waldo P. Johnson Waldo Porter Johnson (September 16, 1817August 14, 1885) was a United States Senator from Missouri, and later a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War.
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Charles A. Rawson Charles Augustus Rawson (May 29, 1867September 2, 1936) was an unelected United States Senator from Iowa for nine months in 1922.
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John Conness John Conness (September 22, 1821 – January 10, 1909) was a first-generation Irish-American businessman who served as a U.S. Senator (1863–1869) from California during the American Civil War and the early years of Reconstruction. He introduced a bill to establish Yosemite National Park and voted to abolish slavery. His advocacy of Chinese immigration and civil rights cost him his constituency.
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Robert Coldsnow Robert Allen Coldsnow (September 26, 1924 – January 23, 2014) was an American politician. He served as a member of the Kansas House of Representatives from 1965 to 1970. He was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and died in Topeka, Kansas. Coldsnow received his bachelor's degree from University of Kansas and his law degree from University of Kansas School of Law. He practiced law in Topeka, Kansas and later was the attorney for the Kansas State Legislature.
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Charles W. Bryan Charles Wayland Bryan (February 10, 1867 – March 4, 1945) was an American politician who served non-consecutive terms as Governor of Nebraska and Mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska, and was the Democratic nominee for Vice President in 1924. He was the younger brother of Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan, who was the Democratic nominee for President in 1896, 1900, and 1908. The Bryans are the only brothers who have been nominated for President or Vice President by a major political party.
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Guy Cordon Guy F. Cordon (April 24, 1890June 8, 1969) was a U.S. politician and lawyer from the state of Oregon. A native of Texas, he served in the Army during World War I and later was the district attorney of Douglas County in Southern Oregon. A Republican, he was appointed and later won election to the United States Senate, serving in office from 1944 to 1955.
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United States Senate election in Kansas, 2014 The 2014 United States Senate election in Kansas was held on November 4, 2014, to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Kansas, concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate in other states and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.