Homer E. Socolofsky

2061 Arthur Capper: Publisher, Politician, and Philanthropist, by Homer E. Socolofsky (read 4 Mar 1987) Capper was born in Kansas July 14, 1865, served as Governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919, as U.S. Senator from 1919 to 1949, and died Dec 19, 1951. When I was a child we subscribed to Capper's Weekly and Capper's Farmer, and naturally I read them. This 1962 book is not well-done, but I didn't mind it. Capper was a good man, very cautious, very anxious to be for what his constituents were for. He wasn't an intellectual, nor was he a good speaker. But he only lost one election--by 29 votes in the 1912 Governorship race. And that appears to have been lost because certain votes which should have been counted were not.… (mehr)