Walter R. Stubbs

Infobox Governor
name= Walter R. Stubbs


caption=
order=18^th
office= Governor of Kansas
term_start= January 11, 1909
term_end= January 13, 1913
lieutenant= William James Fitzgerald, Richard Joseph Hopkins
predecessor= Edward W. Hoch
successor= George H. Hodges
birth_date= November 7 1858
birth_place= Wayne County, Indiana
death_date= March 25, 1929
death_place= Topeka, Kansas
spouse= Stella Hostettler
profession= clerk, farmer, mule driver, banker, politician
party= Republican
religion= Methodist
footnotes=

Walter Roscoe Stubbs (November 7, 1858 - March 25, 1929) was 18th Governor of Kansas.

Stubbs was born in Wayne County, Indiana. He moved to Douglas County, Kansas with his family in 1869.

After leaving the governor's office, Stubbs returned to his home at Wind Hill in Lawrence, Kansas. He was in the cattle raising [ [http://www.westernwatersheds.org "Western Watersheds Project"] ] business with large ranches in Colorado, New Mexico, and Texas. Stubbs' home is now the University of Kansas Sigma Nu fraternity house.

Stubbs built a very successful railroad construction business and was a millionaire before he became involved in state politics. Soon after he entered the state legislature in 1902, Stubbs emerged as the dominant leader of the progressive wing of the Republican Party in Kansas.

Near the end of his second term as governor, Stubbs won his party's nomination for the U.S. Senate but lost the general election in November 1912. [ [http://www.kshs.org/research/topics/politics/essay_governors.htm Essay on Kansas Governors] ]

During this period, Kansas had always had at least one Republican United States Senator. In 1912, Democrat William H. Thompson, defeated Stubbs in his bid for the office. [ [http://www.kshs.org/publicat/khq/1935/35_3_titus.htm 1912 U.S. Senate Race] ]

As Kansas Governor, he became a staunch opponent of alcohol consumption.

Stubbs served as governor from 1909 to 1913 and worked to crack down on bootlegging in the Crawford County, Kansas area known as the “Little Balkans,” where immigrants who were hired to work in strip mines made whiskey to supplement their incomes.

During his administration, in March 1911, Kansas enacted the nation's first state blue sky law, which was promoted by Joseph Norman Dolley, the Kansas state banking commissioner Stubbs appointed on March 3, 1909.

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* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=fd4d224971c81010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD Governor's Information] - Biographic profile
* [http://www.washburn.edu/cas/history/stucker/timeline.html Kansas Characters Timeline] - Progressive Era
* [http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/archives/1918ks/v2/ch64p1.html Walter Roscoe Stubbs] - eighteenth governor of Kansas, 1909-1913
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6903208 Find-A-Grave profile for Walter R. Stubbs]