List of people from Leavenworth County, Kansas

The following is a list of people from Leavenworth County, Kansas. The area includes Leavenworth, Kansas, Fort Leavenworth, Lansing, and rural areas in the county. Inclusion on the list should be reserved for notable people past and present who have resided in the county, either in cities or rural areas.

Academia

Donn B. Murphy, instructor of theatre and speech courses at Georgetown University from 1954 to 2000. At the invitation of Jacqueline Kennedy and Letitia Baldrige, he became a theatrical advisor to the John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson Administrations for White House dramatic and music presentations in the East Room
Ernest Fox Nichols, physicist awarded the Rumford Prize by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1905 for his proof that light exerts pressure

Arts and entertainment

Ashley Aull, competitor in the Miss USA pageant
Danni Boatwright, sole survivor of the CBS series '; Miss Kansas USA 1996

Hilda Clark, actress and model

Buffalo Bill Cody, soldier, buffalo hunter and wild west showman

Harold Coyle, author

Charles N. Daniels

Melissa Etheridge, musician

Adam Gnade, "talking songs" artist

Fred Meyers, actor

Brock Pemberton, theatrical producer, director and founder of the Tony Awards

N. Clark Smith, music educator and composer

Randy Sparks, musician, entertainer (New Christy Minstrels)

Aviation

Paul Poberezny, founder of the Experimental Aircraft Association

Business

Joseph W. Bettendorf, businessman

Fred Harvey, prolific restaurateur

Ron Logan, former Executive Vice President of Walt Disney Entertainment

Crime and law enforcement

Wild Bill Hickok, soldier, lawman, gunfighter

Journalism

Elizabeth Vargas, television journalist (ABC)

Military

Robert Arter, retired United States Army Lieutenant General and former commanding general of the Sixth United States Army.

Joseph Henderson, United States Army Sergeant, recipient of Medal of Honor

David G. Perkins, current Commander of the United States Army Combined Arms Center

Russell Reeder, United States Army officer

David C. Schilling, U.S. Air Force officer, fighter ace, and leading advocate of long-range jet fighter operations

John A. Seitz, commanding general of the 1st Infantry Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps

Richard J. Seitz, Army officer and Paratrooper who commanded the 2nd Battalion, 517th Parachute Infantry Regiment during World War II, the 82nd Airborne Division and the XVIII Airborne Corps

Politics and government

Daniel Read Anthony, abolitionist, newspaper publisher, mayor in 1863, brother of suffragist Susan B. Anthony

Daniel Read Anthony, Jr., American Republican politician and a nephew of suffragist and political leader Susan B. Anthony

Lucien Baker, United States Senator

Lloyd Llewellyn Black, United States Federal Judge

William Patterson Borland, United States Representative from Missouri

William M. Boyle, Democratic political activist

Thomas Carney, second Governor of Kansas

Marti Crow, member of the Kansas House of Representatives

Robert Crozier, United States Senator for Kansas

Robert E. Davis, Kansas Supreme Court Justice

Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States, served at Fort Leavenworth

Thomas Ewing III, 33rd Commissioner of the U.S. Patent Office

Thomas Ewing, Jr., attorney, the first chief justice of Kansas and leading free state advocate, Union Army general during the American Civil War, and two-term United States Congressman from Ohio

Henry W. Green, judge on the Kansas Court of Appeals since 1993

Paul Ranous Greever, United States Representative from Wyoming

Doug Lamborn, United States Representative from Colorado

Walter Nelles, co-founder and first chief legal counsel of the National Civil Liberties Bureau and its successor, the American Civil Liberties Union; achieved public notice for his legal work on behalf of pacifists charged with violating the Espionage Act during World War I and in other politically charged civil rights and constitutional law cases in later years

Andrew Nisbet, Jr., member of the Washington House of Representatives and United States Army officer

Edward Stillings, lawyer and member of the Kansas Legislature

Samuel Hanson Stone, politician

Edward T. Taylor, United States Representative from Colorado

Van H. Wanggaard, member of the Wisconsin State Senate

Religion

Sherwood Eddy, Protestant missionary

William Merrell Vories, educator and missionary

Sports

Chet Brewer, pitcher in baseball's Negro leagues; played for the Kansas City Monarchs; from 1957 to 1974 he scouted for the Pittsburgh Pirates

Bill Burwell, relief pitcher in Major League Baseball for the St. Louis Browns and Pittsburgh Pirates

Duff Cooley, professional baseball player for St. Louis Browns and Detroit Tigers

Neil Dougherty, basketball coach

Amy Hastings, track and field long distance running athlete, 2012 American champion in the 10,000 metres, a qualifier for the 2012 Summer Olympics

Johnny Hetki, Major League baseball player

Lance Hinson, head coach Saint Mary Spires football team

Jack Killilay, Major League Baseball player

Sean Malto, professional skateboarder

Fred Raymer, major league baseball player

John Shirreffs, Thoroughbred racehorse trainer

Wayne Simien, basketball player

Roy Zimmerman

See also

Commandant of the United States Army Command and General Staff College

List of inmates of United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth

List of Saint Mary Spires head football coaches

Lists of people from Kansas

References