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William Avery was ready to run for the Governorship in 1965. In an early campaign speech, Avery told Kansas what he wanted to be as their Governor. "I want to be the number one salesman for Kansas." I tied that to, "A job for every young lady and young man graduating from our Kansas
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What that group was trying to do was stop the Dam from being built. There had been a flood in 1935 and people in the Tuttle Creek area were much more concerned about losing their houses and land opposed to a water shortage. Due to his work in Tuttle Creek, Avery was pushed to run for office in the
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had re-appropriated budget money to the project. Avery felt it was his obligation to get this taken out of the budget. He wrote and elegant speech and delivered it to
Congress; to no avail. "Cliff Hope was the only congressman from Kansas that voted with me. The other four – Errett P. Scrivner,
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were inexperienced, which allowed Avery to climb up the ranks quickly. In just his second term, William Avery was able to work in the
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee and the Rules Committee. Avery believed that he was seen more as a vote than a member, in regards to many of the older
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Avery "served as the state's thirty-seventh chief executive, from
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Congressmen. "They all said nice things and said they were glad I was there and that gave the
Republicans one nearer to the majority than it was before. I don't know whether my physical presence meant much to them but my being there meant something to them." Avery voted in favor of the
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1743:M. Peters
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618:state aid
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2068:Glickman
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1918:Campbell
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1733:H. Moore
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536:Democrat
459:Bob Dole
417:1960s."
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1993:Davids
1973:Meyers
1953:Hargis
1938:Winter
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1038:from
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161:Kansas
106:Kansas
3034:House
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2358:Ayres
2348:Ayres
2248:Smith
2228:White
2218:Young
2203:Baker
2143:Ayres
2108:Davis
2083:Estes
1988:Yoder
1958:McVey
1943:Meyer
1878:Brown
1843:Boyda
1803:Avery
1783:Guyer
1773:Guyer
1753:Scott
1668:Moran
1648:Avery
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1488:Avery
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1408:Allen
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1348:Glick
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2013:Ryan
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