Early on, the Calvins took advantage of Kansas City's proximity to locations, industry, and commerce, and their earliest clients were area-based businesses and organizations such as Kansas Flour Mills, the Security Benefit Association of Topeka, Kansas, the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, Western Auto, and Kansas City Southern Railways.
David Wittig (born July 29, 1955) is the former chief executive officer of Topeka, Kansas-based Westar Energy, a utility company.
Snider died of cancer on November 20, 2004 at his home in Topeka, Kansas.
Ten members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church came from Topeka, Kansas to protest the show, the actors, and director, Douglas J. Graves.
The design was carried out by the railroad's architect Charles Whittlesey, of Topeka, Kansas and was projected to cost $250,000 to build.
He completed his psychiatry residency at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas.
On Earth, these machines destroy Topeka, Kansas, seven other places on Earth's seven continents and Atlantis, when they began to dig into Earth to ready it for Imperiex's final demolition.
Brown was born in Topeka, Kansas and when she was nine years old, moved with her family from Kansas to the Willamette Valley in Oregon.
In 1843 Lykins founded a mission among the Potawatomi near Topeka, Kansas.
Clinton also tied Obama in 16 counties but these were relatively rural and far less populated areas that could not be overweighed by his margins in the more populated, urban areas including Kansas City, Lawrence, Topeka, and Wichita.
Larry Kidney (born August 29, 1939 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American powerlifter.
Nancy Wexler was born July 19, 1945, in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Topeka, Kansas.
Since joining the Supreme Court in 2004, he was an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Ghana; and a visiting jurist at overseas institutions including the University of Akron School of Law in Ohio, Loyola University Law School in Chicago, Northern Illinois University Law School in DeKalb, Illinois, Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas, and the Nelson Institute for International & Foreign Affairs, James Madison University, Virginia, USA.
He served in that capacity until 1869, and in 1870, he removed to Topeka, Kansas and lived there for fourteen months before returning to Somerset and resuming his legal practice.
The Topeka Mudcats are a women's professional American football team based in Topeka, Kansas, and a charter member of the Women's Spring Football League.
The Brotherhood of Railway Carmen was founded on September 9, 1890, in Topeka, Kansas, by railroad employees engaged in the repair and inspection of railroad cars.
The Anderson W. Chandler Lecture Series began in 1997 and is made possible by alumnus Anderson Chandler, CEO, president and director of Fidelity State Bank and Trust Co. in Topeka, Kansas.
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Prior to working at NBC, he was a meteorologist at KSNT in Topeka, Kansas and at WTCI in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Bradley Kent "Brad" Garlinghouse (born February 6, 1971 in Topeka, Kansas) is currently CEO of Hightail (formerly YouSendIt), the file sharing site.
Williams originally attended Fordham University, but after a year of limited playing time, transferred to Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas.
Douglas S. Wright, former attorney, mayor of Topeka, Kansas and candidate for the United States Congress
Elizabeth Hummel (born July 8, 1958 in Topeka, Kansas) is an American singer-songwriter best known for her activities in the San Diego area where she was voted “Best Acoustic Artist” in 1995 (other honoraries: Jewel 1994, Steve Poltz 1993).
Arnold Dwight Moore (November 8, 1913, Topeka, Kansas – May 19, 2004, Yazoo City, Mississippi), better known as Gatemouth Moore and later Reverend Gatemouth Moore, was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter and pastor.
George C. Magoun (1840-1893), Chairman of the Board of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
After nearly two decades of teaching at the Menninger Foundation Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and at the University of Notre Dame, Yale University and Harvard University, he went to work with mental and physically handicapped people at the L'Arche community of Daybreak in Toronto, Canada.
Henry C. Lord (1824–1884), president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
James McClinton was born in Milwaukee, then moved to Helena, Arkansas in early childhood, and then finally to Topeka.
KMAJ-FM, a radio station (107.7 FM) licensed to Topeka, Kansas, United States
KTMJ-CD, a low-power television station (channel 43) licensed to serve Topeka, Kansas, United States
He is a member of the Board of Editors for the Journal of the Kansas Bar Association, the Advisory Board for the Topeka-Shawnee County Youth Court, the United States Supreme Court Historical Society, the Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University School of Law, the American Judges Association, and the Kansas Bar Association.
On October 6, 2006, Gallagher convinced the controversial Topeka, Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church to appear on air with an hour of air time in exchange for not picketing a funeral for victims from the Amish school shooting near Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania.
The Wichita native started his career at Topeka's WIBW-TV in Kansas (when fellow Foxer Steve Doocy was doing the weather at WIBW's crosstown rival, KSNT-TV).
Other historical municipal colleges and universities include Washburn University in Topeka, Kansas, the University of Louisville, the University of Cincinnati, Wichita State University, University of Toledo, University of Nebraska-Omaha, the University of Akron and Wayne State University in Detroit.
In 2008, New Vision bought KTMJ-CA and repeaters in Topeka (co-managed with KSNT) and announced plans to convert KBNZ-LD in Bend, Oregon (which has since been sold) from a translator of KOIN to its own station.
"On the Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe" is a popular song which refers to the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway (AT&SF).
For instance, in the first verse, she draws comparisons between such things as Taylor flying to France to have her hair done and the joy and gaity of the "White House social season," and her own dull life ("Here in Topeka, the rain is a-fallin'. The faucet is a-drippin' and the kids are a-bawlin'").
Payless ShoeSource is an American discount footwear retailer headquartered in Topeka, Kansas in 1956 by brothers Louis and Shaol Pozez that is owned by Collective Brands, Inc. In 1961, it became a public company as the Volume Shoe Corporation which merged with the May Department Stores Company in 1979.
He was educated in the public schools in Topeka and at Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts.
For the 1936 election year, he was assigned by INS to Topeka, Kansas and the Alf Landon presidential campaign.
As the Chairman of Brock Hotel Corporation, the first and at the time largest franchisee of Holiday Inns, he founded Showbiz Pizza Place in 1980 in Topeka, Kansas.
James Weldon Johnson, the NAACP secretary recommended that he join the Topeka branch.
In 2012, the campus is used for filming numerous scenes of Arnaud Desplechin's movie Jimmy P: Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian (2013), which ultimately will be in competition at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, figuring the now vanished Winter Veteran Hospital of Topeka, Kansas.
Throughout much of its history, Skelly was a popular gasoline marketer throughout the Midwestern United States and was a market leader in several cities throughout its marketing area including Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Kansas City, Wichita, Topeka, Omaha, Des Moines, Minneapolis/Saint Paul and other cities.
In 1881, the name was changed to Strong, in honor of William Barstow Strong, General Superintendent of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, whom later become the president of the company.
It finally disbanded after the 1954 season, its champion Topeka club, a Chicago White Sox affiliate, drawing half the number of fans the team had drawn during the late 1940s.
WIBW-TV, a television station affiliated with CBS (digital/PSIP channel 13) licensed to Topeka, Kansas, United States
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WIBW-FM, a country radio station (94.5 FM) licensed to Topeka, Kansas, United States