2026-04-03T20:46:38Z

Wendell Lady papers, 1968-1982

Abstract Or Scope

The collection includes correspondence, legislative texts, drafts, and comparisons, committee notes, agendas, attendance records, questionnaires, directories, news clippings, campaign records from the 1968-1982 legislative career of State Representative for the 19th District (Overland Park, KS) and former Speaker of the Kansas House of Representatives Wendell Eugene Lady.
Topics include abortion legislation, agriculture & livestock, alcohol, daycare, district reapportionment, education, energy and power plants, the Equal Rights Amendment, fuel taxes, gifted education, grain marketing, hazardous waste transportation, healthcare, higher education, House rules of order, marijuana, pensions & retirement systems, prisons, Republican Party philosophy, roads & highways, school financing, the state budget, State Capitol repairs & renovations, speed limits, teacher evaluations, water management and fluoridation, and workman's compensation.