(The city of Florence, KS, was named for her.) She died May 10, 1926. He was married in late 1892 to Florence Crawford, daughter of former governor Samuel J. He returned to live in Topeka and survived to age 86 when he died in Topeka December 19, 1951. He declined to run for reelection in 1948 when he was 83 years old. Senator from Kansas, a position to which he was reelected four more times, serving from 1919-1949. In 1914, he was elected governor and served two terms, from 1915-1919. In 1912, he was the Republican candidate for governor, but lost the election by 29 votes because of the split between the regular (Taft) and Bull Moose (Teddy Roosevelt) Republicans. His first public office was in 1909 when he was named a member and chairman of the Board of Regents of the Kansas State Agricultural College (now Kansas State University, Manhattan).
In 1901, he bought the controlling interest in the Topeka Daily Capital and his subsequent media enterprise included a number of magazines and newspapers as well as one of the first radio stations in Kansas (WIBW). Nine years later, after work as a typesetter, printer, reporter and city editor, he became a publisher (of the North Topeka Daily Mail). Interested early in printing, he went to work with the Topeka Daily Capital newspaper after graduation from high school in 1884. BiographyĪrthur Capper was born July 14, 1865, at Garnett, KS of an English, abolitionist father and a Quaker mother. The Kansas State Historical Society does not have the literary property rights to these papers. Primarily they cover his 30 years as United States Senator from Kansas 1918-1948, although there are some items relating to the years prior to that time frame as well as after that period until his death in 1951. The Arthur Capper Papers (Collection 12, KSHS) were given to the Kansas State Historical Society by his estate on April 2, 1957.
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