Tom West | |
State Senate1: | Kansas |
District1: | 19th |
Term Start1: | January 1973 |
Term End1: | September 20, 1973 |
Successor1: | Jim Parrish |
State Senate2: | Kansas |
District2: | 13th |
Term Start2: | 1969 |
Term End2: | 1972 |
State House3: | Kansas |
District3: | 46th |
Term Start3: | 1967 |
Term End3: | 1968 |
Birth Date: | 1925 6, mf=yes |
Birth Place: | Topeka, Kansas |
Residence: | Topeka, Kansas[1] |
Death Place: | Topeka, Kansas |
Spouse: | Delores Hunt (m. 1946) |
Party: | Republican |
Thomas James West (June 10, 1925 - January 19, 1975) was an American politician who served in the Kansas State Senate and Kansas House of Representatives as a Republican during the 1960s and 1970s. He was originally elected to the Kansas House in 1966, serving one term there before running for the Kansas Senate. He won election to the Senate in 1968 and won re-election in 1972 before resigning from the Senate on September 20, 1973.