Walter R. Stubbs
| Walter R. Stubbs | |
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| 18th Governor of Kansas | |
| In office January 11, 1909 – January 13, 1913 |
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| Lieutenant | William J. Fitzgerald Richard J. Hopkins |
| Preceded by | Edward W. Hoch |
| Succeeded by | George H. Hodges |
| Personal details | |
| Born | November 7, 1858 Wayne County, Indiana |
| Died | March 25, 1929 (aged 70) Topeka, Kansas |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Stella Hostettler |
| Profession | clerk, farmer, mule driver, banker, politician |
| Religion | Methodist |
Walter Roscoe Stubbs (November 7, 1858 - March 25, 1929) was 18th Governor of Kansas.
Stubbs was born in Wayne County, Indiana. He moved to Douglas County, Kansas with his family in 1869.
After leaving the governor's office, Stubbs returned to his home at Wind Hill in Lawrence, Kansas. He was in the cattle raising[1] business with large ranches in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Stubbs' home is now the University of Kansas Sigma Nu fraternity house.
Stubbs built a very successful railroad construction business and was a millionaire before he became involved in state politics. Soon after he entered the state legislature in 1902, Stubbs emerged as the dominant leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party in Kansas.
Near the end of his second term as governor, Stubbs won his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate but lost the general election in November 1912.[2]
During this period, Kansas had always had at least one Republican United States Senator. In 1912, Democrat William H. Thompson, defeated Stubbs in his bid for the office. [3]
As Kansas Governor, he became a staunch opponent of alcohol consumption.
Stubbs served as governor from 1909 to 1913 and worked to crack down on bootlegging in the Crawford County, Kansas area known as the “Little Balkans,” where immigrants who were hired to work in strip mines made whiskey to supplement their incomes.
During his administration, in March 1911, Kansas enacted the nation's first state blue sky law, which was promoted by Joseph Norman Dolley, the Kansas state banking commissioner Stubbs appointed on March 3, 1909.
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[edit] External links
- Governor's Information - Biographic profile
- Kansas Characters Timeline - Progressive Era
- Walter Roscoe Stubbs - eighteenth governor of Kansas, 1909-1913
- Find-A-Grave profile for Walter R. Stubbs
