A YEAR-LONG COMMITMENT TO THE COMMUNITYThis Week in Kansas History

April 20, 1912: President Theodore Roosevelt delivers 17 speeches in one day in Kansas in an effort to win the Republican nomination against William Howard Taft.

April 21, 1865: The Kansas Legislature grants a charter for the Ottawa University.

April 22, 1994: Kansas reinstates the death penalty.

April 23, 1865: Kansans observe a day of fasting and prayer to mourn the death of Abraham Lincoln.

April 26, 1854: The New England Emigrant Aid Co., an organization formed to help anti-slavery settlers locate in the Kansas Territory, receives its charter.

Source: Annals of Kansas

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