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Sam Brownback was sworn in as governor of Kansas on January 10, 2010.

Throughout his life, Brownback has worked as a radio broadcaster, attorney, teacher, administrator, congressman and senator.

Brownback served in the U.S. Senate from 1996-2010, where he was a member of the Appropriations Committee and the Homeland Security Subcommittee and served as the top-ranking Republican in the Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee. He also served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1994-1996, and was the youngest Kansas Secretary of Agriculture.

He and his wife, Mary, have five children.