This black and white photograph shows Samuel Dale Brownback. Brownback, a member of the Republican party, began his political career in 1986 when he was appointed Kansas Secretary of Agriculture, a position he held until 1993. In 1994, Brownback was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's second congressional district and served for two years. In 1996, he sought and won the senatorial race to replace Bob Dole, who had resigned from the Senate to run for the U.S. Presidency. In the general elections of 1998 and 2004 Brownback was successfully re-elected. In 2010, he didn't seek re-election to the Senate because of his support for term limits for members of Congress. On November 2, 2010 Samuel Dale Brownback was elected the forty-sixth governor of Kansas.