DID YOU KNOW?

George was congressman in '50s
Myron V. George was a U.S. congressman from the Kansas Fourth District from 1950 to 1959. A native of Altamont, George was one of three brothers who were newspaper publishers. He was owner and publisher of the Edna Sun in the 1930s before he entered government service which also included management positions with the Kansas Highway Commission.

His brother, H.K. George, was a lifelong publisher who now is listed in the KPA Hall of Fame, and another brother Victor George, who died in 2008, published the Altamont Journal for over 30 years. Their father was Frank George who founded the Altamont Journal in 1906 and their grandfather was William George, a newspaperman from Erie.

In the present day, Kathy Taylor of Caney is a niece of former Congressman George. Andy Taylor is a grand-nephew and Jennifer Taylor Diveley is a grand-niece.

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Ross came from the newspaper industry
Many Kansans are familiar with Edmund G. Ross, the Kansan who was one of seven senators who defied the Republican Party by casting the deciding vote that blocked the conviction of President Andrew Johnson in 1868 for high crimes and misdemeanors.

But did you know Ross also was a Kansas newspaperman? He started the Kansas State Record in Topeka in 1859, later was editor of the Kansas Tribune in Lawrence, published a newspaper in Coffeyville and then served at the Spirit of Kansas and the Standard of Lawrence.

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Eblen authored the KPA's 140th anniversary history book
Former University Daily Kansan general manager and current KPA news consultant Tom Eblen authored a book on the history of the Kansas Press Association in 2004.

The book looked at KPA activities through the decades and included articles on a number of families in the Kansas newspaper industry.

KPA plans to put the book's chapters online in the near future in PDF form.

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Meyer served almost four years in House
Herbert Alton Meyer, publisher of the Independence Daily Reporter, was elected to the U.S. Congress in 1946 and served from January 1947 until his death in October of 1950. He was a captain in the U.S. Army Air  Corps in World War I.

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