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The Associated Press lists candidates filed for Kansas statewide races. Incumbents marked with x include Frank Carlson in the U S Senate and Fred Hall for governor. congressional contests span multiple districts with names such as Avery, Scrivner, Gray, and Montgomery. Party labels show Republicans and Democrats for governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, treasurer, auditor, attorney general, superintendent, insurance, and supreme court seats. Nine members of the 1956 Mississippi baseball team join the 1956 football squad.
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Associated Press
Atatewida
U. S. Senate
Frank Carlson
Concord
Walter I
Biddle
Leavenworth
George Hart
Wichita
Martyn Korf
Burdett
Paul Aylward
Ellsworth
Fred Kilian
Wamego
William H. Avery
Wakefield
Oward
Miller
Hiawatha
Allen Engler
Topeka
Errett FP
Scrivner x
Kansas City
Newell A. George
Myron George
Altamont
Oren Gray
Parsons
Jack Warren
Shaw
Galena
Henry Smith
St. Paul
Denver
D. Hargis
Coffeyville
H. Reese
Emporia
John Montgomery
Junction City
John Crutcher
Hutchingon
J. C. Berryman
Ashland
Z. Arthur Nevins
Dodge City
J. Floyd Breeding
Rolla
Morris Coover
Kinsley
Wint Simithy
Mankato
Mildred Otis
Phillipsburg
John Weelk
Russell
Max Jones
Goodland
Elmor. Mahoney
Dorrance
Fred Hall x
Warren W. Shaw
Francis Horton
Horton
John ©. Stewart
George Docking
Lawrence
Harry Woodring
John MacCulhy
Newton
Lester C. Arvin
Wichite
Ewell Stewart
Joseph Slenkle
Great Bend
Paul R. Shanahan
Salina
Stephen N. Lawrence
Hillsboro
Verne H. Arondalt
Trosguier
Richard T. Fadely x
To- Teka
A. L. Wolfe
Ft. Scott
George Robb x
Reublican
John Lt. Willams
Arkansas City
John Anderson Jr
Olathe
Jame