Former territorial governor Charles Robinson was elected as a Republican over the Democratic incumbent, Samuel Medary by a vote count of 7,908 to 5,395. This was the first election for government offices under the new Wyandotte Constitution that prepared Kansas for statehood in early 1861. (By John Osborne)
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Benson J. Lossing, Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History From 458 A.D. to 1902, Volume IX (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1902), 343.
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