Editing Sam Brownback (section)

==Early career==
Brownback was an attorney in [[Manhattan, Kansas]],<ref name="Weekly"/> before being appointed as [[Kansas Department of Agriculture|Kansas Secretary of Agriculture]] by [[Governor of Kansas|Governor]] [[John W. Carlin]] on September 18, 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/310846533/?terms=sam+brownback|title=19 Sep 1986, 25 - The Springfield News-Leader at Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055057/https://www.newspapers.com/image/310846533/?terms=sam+brownback|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/2271301/?terms=But+six+days+after+his+30th+birthday+in+September+1986+Brownback+was+hired+by+the+state+Board+of+Agriculture+as+secretary|title=27 Dec 1994, Page 3 - The Salina Journal at Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010055155/https://www.newspapers.com/image/2271301/?terms=But+six+days+after+his+30th+birthday+in+September+1986+Brownback+was+hired+by+the+state+Board+of+Agriculture+as+secretary|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1990, he was accepted into the [[White House Fellow]] program and detailed to the [[Office of the United States Trade Representative|Office of the U.S. Trade Representative]] from 1990 to 1991. Brownback returned to Kansas to resume his position as Secretary of Agriculture. He left his post on July 30, 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/981681/?terms=Secretary+of+Agriculture+Sam+Brownback|title=14 Jul 1993, Page 1 - The Salina Journal at Newspapers.com|access-date=January 23, 2018|archive-date=October 10, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010054945/https://www.newspapers.com/image/981681/?terms=Secretary%20of%20Agriculture%20Sam%20Brownback|url-status=live}}</ref> He was elected to the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] in 1994 and ran in the 1996 [[special election]] for the [[U.S. Senate]] seat recently vacated by [[Bob Dole]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/05/us/race-for-dole-s-senate-seat-provokes-ideological-split.html|title=Race for Dole's Senate Seat Provokes Ideological Split|last=Johnson|first=Dirk|date=August 5, 1996|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=October 4, 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331|archive-date=April 15, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190415190901/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/05/us/race-for-dole-s-senate-seat-provokes-ideological-split.html|url-status=live}}</ref>