Samuel Brownback
Full Name: Samuel Dale Brownback
Age: 53
Marital status: married, five children and one adopted
Politicial Party: Republican
Current position: United States Senator, Kansas (last time elected in 2004)
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Biography
Born in Garnett, Kansas and raised in Parker, Kansas, Sam Brownback was born to a farming family partly of German descent who settled in Kansas after leaving Pennsylvania following the Civil War. Much of the remainder of his family tree was of English heritage. Brownback was state president of Future Farmers of America, and eventually went on to become the national vice president from 1976-1977. While at Kansas State University, he was elected student body president and was a member of Alpha Gamma Rho. He received his J.D. from the University of Kansas in 1982.After college, Brownback spent approximately a year working as a broadcaster; he hosted a weekly half-hour show.
He was an attorney in Manhattan, Kansas before becoming the Kansas secretary of agriculture in 1986. In 1990, he was accepted into the White House Fellow program and detailed to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 1990-91. Brownback then returned to Kansas to resume his position as secretary of agriculture and remained in that position until 1993. He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1994, and next ran in the 1996 special Senatorial election to replace Bob Dole, who had resigned his Senate seat during his presidential campaign.
He is married to the former Mary Stauffer, whose family owned and sold a successful media company in 1995. They have five children including an adopted son and daughter.
Raised as a Methodist, Brownback later joined a nondenominational evangelical church, and in 2002 he became Catholic. He joined the Catholic Church through Opus Dei member Father C. John McCloskey in Washington DC. However, Brownback himself is not a member of Opus Dei organization
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