[ Samuel Dale "Sam" Brownback (born September 12, 1956) is the senior United States senator from the U.S. state of Kansas. On January 20, 2007 he announced his intentions to seek the Republican Party's nomination for President in the 2008 Presidential election.
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.[3] Much of the remainder of his family tree was of English heritage.[4] Brownback was state president of Future Farmers of America, and eventually went on to become the national vice president from 1976-1977.[5] 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. ]
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