The convention charged with creating a Kansas State Constitution is meeting in Wyandotte, Kansas

As the territorial legislature had ordered in February and the electorate had confirmed in March, a constitutional Convention with thirty-five Republican and seventeen Democrat elected delegates met at Wyandotte, Kansas to produce a State Constitution. New York native James M. Winchell of Osage County was chosen to sit as President and John A. Martin, a twenty-one year old Pennsylvania born newspaper editor from Atchison, Kansas, was named secretary. Three and a half weeks later, on July 29, 1859, the new document had been worked out and was signed. (By John Osborne)