Ross Doyen | |
Birth Date: | 1 October 1926 |
Birth Place: | Rice, Kansas, U.S. |
Death Place: | Concordia, Kansas, U.S. |
Office: | President of the Kansas Senate |
Term Start: | 1976[1] |
Term End: | 1984 |
Predecessor: | Richard Rogers |
Successor: | Robert Talkington |
State Senate1: | Kansas |
District1: | 23rd |
Term Start1: | January 12, 1969 |
Term End1: | January 11, 1993 |
Succeeded1: | Mark Parkinson |
Office2: | Member of the Kansas House of Representatives |
Term Start2: | January 12, 1959 |
Term End2: | January 12, 1969 |
Constituency2: | 61st district (1959-1961) 58th district (1961-1965) 56th district (1965-1967) 97th district (1967-1969) |
Party: | Republican |
Spouse: | |
Children: | 2 |
Education: | Kansas State University |
Allegiance: | United States |
Battles: | World War II |
Ross O. Doyen (October 1, 1926 - July 3, 2014) was an American rancher, farmer, and politician.
Born near Rice, Kansas, Doyan served in the United States Navy during World War II. Doyen received his bachelor's degree in agricultural engineering from Kansas State University in 190. He was a farmer and rancher. He served in the Kansas House of Representatives, as a Republican from 1959 to 1968 and then in the Kansas State Senate from 1969 to 1992 and served as chairman of the Ways and Means Committee and president of the senate. Additionally, he served with the National Conference of State Legislatures and Conference of State Governments. He died in Concordia, Kansas.[2] [3] [4]