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{{Infobox Political post
| post = Secretary of State
| body = <br>the State of Kansas
| insignia = 
| insigniacaption = Seal of the Secretary of State of Kansas
| image =
| incumbent = [[Scott Schwab]]
| incumbentsince = January 14, 2019
| formation = February 1861
| inaugural = John Winter Robinson
| website = {{url|sos.kansas.gov}}
|}}

The '''Secretary of State of Kansas''' is one of the [[constitution]]al 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]].<ref name=kcs>{{cite news |last1=Eveld|first1=Edward M.|title=Former Olathe couple among those charged with voter fraud by Kris Kobach |url=http://www.kansascity.com/news/government-politics/article41728149.html|access-date=October 30, 2015|work=Kansas City Star |date=October 28, 2015}}</ref>

The current Secretary of State is [[Scott Schwab]]. He has been secretary since January 14, 2019.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hutchpost.com/republican-schwab-wins-kansas-secretary-of-state-race/ |title=Republican Schwab wins Kansas secretary of state race |website=www.hutchpost.com |access-date=January 14, 2019 |archive-date=January 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190115023613/http://www.hutchpost.com/republican-schwab-wins-kansas-secretary-of-state-race/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==History==
The first [[Secretary of State (U.S. state government)|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.<ref name=Cyclopedia>{{cite book|last=Blackmar|first=Frank|title=Kansas: A Cyclopedia of State History |publisher=Standard Publishing Co.|date=1912|pages=592–598|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qi9cXyTWt9EC}}</ref>

==List of secretaries==
===Secretaries in the Kansas Territory=== 
{{Politics of Kansas}}
{| class="wikitable"
!Name!!Term!!Party
|-
|Daniel Woodson
|1854–1857
|{{Party shading/Democratic}}|Democratic
|-
|Frederick P. Stanton
|1857
|{{Party shading/Democratic}}|Democratic
|-
|James W. Denver
|1857–1858
|{{Party shading/Democratic}}|Democratic
|-
|Hugh Sleight Walsh
|1858–1860
|{{Party shading/Democratic}}|Democratic
|-
|George M. Beebe
|1860–1861
|{{Party shading/Democratic}}|Democratic
|}

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

==References==
{{reflist}}

==Other websites==
* {{Official website|sos.kansas.gov}}

{{Kansas Executive Offices}}

[[Category:Government of Kansas]]
[[Category:1861 establishments in Kansas]]