Jim Ryun
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James Ronald Ryun is an American former Republican politician and Olympic track and field athlete, who at his peak was widely considered the world's top middle-distance runner. He won a silver medal i
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Ryun as a sports journalist in 1966
Ryun with his wife in 1971
Ryun is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Donald Trump in 2020.
Sam Brownback
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Samuel Dale Brownback is an American attorney, politician, and diplomat who served as a United States senator from Kansas from 1996 to 2011 and as the 46th governor of Kansas from 2011 to 2018. A memb
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…that the Topeka-based 2nd District would have a vacancy and suggested that he run. Ryun was first elected in 1996 to fill a seat vacated by Republican Sam Brownback. He won the three-person Republican primary with 62% of the vote, defeating former Topeka Mayor Doug Wright and Cheryl Brown Henderson, the daughter…
Official portrait, 2018
Senators Brownback and Feinstein in 2003, shown with Angelina Jolie, the Goodwill Ambassador for United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, call for bipartisan legislation to reform the treatment of unaccompanied alien minors.
Senator Brownback officially opening his Iowa campaign headquarters in West Des Moines, IA
Brownback and 1st Infantry Division Commanding General present a medallion to a child whose father died serving in Iraq.