1. John Michael Hayden was born on March 16,1944 and is a retired American politician and veteran who served as the 41st governor of Kansas, from 1987 to 1991.
18 Facts About Mike Hayden
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Mike Hayden subsequently served as the Secretary of the Kansas Wildlife and Parks Department under Kansas governors Kathleen Sebelius and Mark Parkinson.
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Michael Hayden, known as Mike Hayden, was born in Colby, Kansas, on March 16,1944.
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Mike Hayden grew up in the small western Kansas town of Atwood, in Rawlins County.
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Mike Hayden was raised by his father Irven Wesley Hayden, and mother Ruth Kelley Hayden.
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Mike Hayden returned home in May 1970, and attended Fort Hays State University where he received a master's degree in biology.
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Mike Hayden was twenty-eight years old upon his entrance to the Legislative race, and to that point, there had not been a successful campaign that got a person under the age of fifty elected.
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Mike Hayden claimed that the primary was hard-fought, but in the end, Mike Hayden won by a mere 250 votes.
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Mike Hayden had wanted to be a part of the Natural Resources Committee but knew that it was beneficial to have a deeper understanding of how government worked.
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Secondly, Mike Hayden became friends with a handful of crucial people: Wendell Lady, who soon became speaker, and Bill Bunten, who accepted the vice-chairman position of the Ways and Means Committee instead of the chairman position, so that Mike Hayden could have the chairmanship.
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Mike Hayden approached the primaries with, in his words, a "very simple strategy".
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The primary results concluded that Mike Hayden had won eighty-nine of those counties.
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Mike Hayden spent no money on advertisements, made no effort to make a lot of appearances, and attempted to save his resources.
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Mike Hayden focused on three issues during his first term as governor: The Highway Plan, Property Tax Appraisal, and his Tell the Governor sessions.
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Mike Hayden attempted to rejuvenate the highways in 1987 by calling a special legislative session, but the idea was not supported.
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Mike Hayden proposed a question as to whether or not the people of his constituency wanted to move from the uniform system to a new system of classification.
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Mike Hayden put a system in place that worked annually with one third of the property population so that there would be a turnover in property taxes every three years.
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The third issue that Michael Mike Hayden dealt with over the years was his ability to manage the matters of the state, and the matters of the people within the state.