Kansas 
Kansas
MyOC Group for people in Kansas. Join KS constituents in tracking bills, votes, issues, and their members of Congress.
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Representatives
1st District Tim Huelskamp MyOC Group Republican 2 years in office
2nd District Lynn Jenkins MyOC Group Republican 4 years in office
3rd District Kevin Yoder MyOC Group Republican 2 years in office
4th District Mike Pompeo MyOC Group Republican 2 years in office
Kansas (/ˈkænzəs/) is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. It is named after the Kansas River which flows through it, which in turn was named after the Kansa Native American tribe, which inhabited the area. The tribe's name (natively kką:ze) is often said to mean "people of the wind" or "people of the south wind," although this was probably not the term's original meaning. Residents of Kansas are called "Kansans." For thousands of years what is now Kansas was home to numerous and diverse Native American tribes. Tribes in the Eastern part of the state generally lived in villages along the river valleys. Tribes in the Western part of the state were semi-nomadic and hunted large herds of bison. Kansas was first settled by European Americans in the 1830s, but the pace of... (More from Freebase)