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The '''Kansas State Capitol''', known also as the '''Kansas Statehouse''', is the building housing the [[Governor of Kansas|executive]] and [[Kansas Legislature|legislative]] branches of government for the [[U.S. state]] of [[Kansas]]. Located in the city of [[Topeka]], which has served as the capital of Kansas since the territory became a state in 1861, the building is the second to serve as the Kansas Capitol.<ref name="timeline2">{{cite web|title=Kansas State Capitol - Timeline|url=http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-state-capitol-timeline/16832|publisher=Kansas State Historical Society|date=April 2011|access-date=2011-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151221084812/http://www.kshs.org/kansapedia/kansas-state-capitol-timeline/16832|archive-date=2015-12-21|url-status=dead}}</ref>{{failed verification|date=October 2020}} During the territorial period (1854–1861), an earlier capitol building was begun but not completed in [[Lecompton, Kansas]], and smaller structures in Lecompton and Topeka were where the territorial legislatures met (see [[:Category:Capitols of Kansas|Capitols of Kansas]]).
The dome, at {{convert|304|ft|abbr=on}}, is taller than the {{convert|288|ft|abbr=on}} [[United States Capitol dome]], although its diameter ({{convert|50|ft|abbr=on}}) is approximately half that of the national capitol ({{convert|96|ft|abbr=on}}). It is one of the few capitols in the United States that
==History==
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