Editing Arthur Capper (section)

{{Short description|American politician (1865–1951)}}
{{for|the housing project in Washington, D.C.|Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|name         = Arthur Capper
|image        = CAPPER, ARTHUR C. SENATOR LCCN2016860456 (cropped).jpg
|caption      = Capper in 1905
|jr/sr        = United States senator
|state        = [[Kansas]]
|term_start   = March 4, 1919
|term_end     = January 3, 1949
|predecessor  = [[William Howard Thompson|William Thompson]]
|successor    = [[Andrew Frank Schoeppel|Andrew Schoeppel]]
|office1      = Chair of the [[National Governors Association]]
|term_start1  = December 14, 1916
|term_end1    = September 16, 1924
|predecessor1 = [[William Spry]]
|successor1   = [[Emerson Harrington]]
|order2       = 20th [[Governor of Kansas]]
|lieutenant2  = [[William Yoast Morgan]]
|term_start2  = January 11, 1915
|term_end2    = January 13, 1919
|predecessor2 = [[George H. Hodges]]
|successor2   = [[Henry Justin Allen|Henry Allen]]
|birth_date   = {{birth date|1865|7|14}}
|birth_place  = [[Garnett, Kansas]], U.S.
|death_date   = {{death date and age|1951|12|19|1865|7|14}}
|death_place  = [[Topeka, Kansas]], U.S.
|party        = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
|spouse       = Florence Crawford
}}
'''Arthur Capper''' (July 14, 1865 – December 19, 1951) was an American politician from [[Kansas]]. He was the [[List of governors of Kansas|20th governor of Kansas]] (the first to have been born in the state) from 1915 to 1919 and a [[United States senator]] from 1919 to 1949. He also owned a radio station ([[WIBW (AM)|WIBW]] in [[Topeka, Kansas|Topeka]]), and was the publisher of a newspaper, the ''[[Topeka Daily Capital]]''.<ref>"Arthur Capper of Kansas Dies; Senator 30 Years." ''St. Louis Post-Dispatch'', December 20, 1951, p. 18.</ref>