1. Chris Biggs was born on October 14,1958 and is an American lawyer and politician who was the 30th Secretary of State of Kansas.
16 Facts About Chris Biggs
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Chris Biggs was appointed on March 16,2010, by Governor Mark Parkinson to replace Ron Thornburgh who resigned on February 15,2010.
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Chris Biggs was born on October 14,1958, in Kansas City, Missouri, as the youngest of five children.
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Chris Biggs's family settled in Manhattan, Kansas, when Chris was a child.
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Chris Biggs's mother, Bernice, was a staff secretary at Kansas State University.
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Chris Biggs attended the University of Kansas School of Law, graduating in 1983.
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Chris Biggs's first case was an argument in front of the Kansas Supreme Court.
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In 1988, Chris Biggs was elected to serve as the prosecutor for Geary County, and was re-elected three times.
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Phill Kline, a former state legislator, emerged from a bruising Republican primary, defeating David Adkins; Chris Biggs ran unopposed in the Democratic primary.
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Chris Biggs was endorsed by the Mainstream Coalition, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Kansas City Star, the Wichita Eagle, former Attorney General Vern Miller, and the Topeka Capital-Journal.
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In January 2010, Chris Biggs announced his candidacy for Secretary of State.
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Chris Biggs was only the second Democratic Secretary of State in Kansas since statehood, and was the first in nearly 60 years.
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Chris Biggs faced a primary challenge for the Democratic nomination for Secretary of State by Kansas State Sen.
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Chris Biggs has won several awards for his guitar-playing skills, including three straight third-place finishes at the National Flatpicking Championships held each year at the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, KS.
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Chris Biggs was the Kansas Guitar Picking Champion in 1982,1990, and 1994, as well as the Kansas Banjo Picking Champion in 1994.
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Chris Biggs has been involved in several civic organizations: Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Rotary International, the Kansas County and District Attorneys Association, the Kansas Bar Association, and the Kansas Bluegrass Association.