Alysia Kysar to Governor Joan Finney
Creator: Kysar, Alysia
Date: March 19, 1991
Alysia Kysar of Liberal, Kansas, writes Governor Joan Finney of Topeka concerning a water rights conflict at Cheyenne Bottoms wetlands in Barton County, Kansas. Kysar is eleven years old. She argues that the importance of wildlife habitats and communal ownership of natural resources, like water, supercede the rights of individual water users along Wet Walnut Creek. Kysar further questions the suitability of irrigated agriculture to an arid environment. In Wet Walnut Irrigators v. Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area (1992), the Kansas Supreme Court ruled in favor of Cheyenne Bottoms, citing its earlier claim to water rights.

Governor Joan Finney's inauguration at the Kansas capitol in Topeka, Kansas
Creator: Johnson, Janice L
Date: January 1991
This group of 29 photographs show Governor Joan Finney's inauguration at the Kansas capitol in Topeka, Kansas. Other political officers captured in the photograph is Kansas Attorney General Robert Stephan, Kansas Secretary of State Bill Graves, Lieutenant Governor James Francisco and former Governor Michael Hayden.

Hand fan for Joan Finney & Jim Francisco campaign
Date: Unknown
A hand fan for the Joan Finney and Jim Francisco campaign. Finney served as Governor of Kansas from 1991-1995.

Joan Finney
Creator: Kansas. Dept. of Transportation
Date: 1994
Portrait of Joan Finney, Kansas Governor, 1991-1995.

Kansas Legislature, 1993-1994
Creator: Government Research Service
Date: Bulk 1993-1994
This legislative panel shows members of the Kansas Senate and the Kansas House of Representatives. In the center of the panel portraits of state elected officials and Governor Joan Finney have been inserted.

Message to the House of Representatives of the State of Kansas
Creator: Finney, Joan, 1925-
Date: April 22, 1994
Governor Joan Finney of Topeka, Kansas, writes the State House of Representatives, also of Topeka, to explain her position on House Bill 2578. The bill reinstated the death penalty in Kansas for the crime of capital murder, as defined in the bill. Though opposed to capital punishment, Finney allowed the bill to become law without her signature. This law was the first to reinstate capital punishment in Kansas since the 1972 U. S. Supreme Court decision in Furman v. Georgia overturned many state capital punishment laws.

Topeka statehouse press corps with Governor Joan Finney
Date: January 1995
This is a photograph showing Governor Joan Finney with members of the statehouse press corps. The photograph was taken when Governor Finney was leaving office.

United States Ship Constitution photograph and certificate
Date: July 17, 1994
This autographed photograph of the United States Ship Constitution, also known as Old Ironsides, with a certificate issued to Governor Joan Finney. Finney joined Captain Richard Amirault, William Weld, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and other U.S. governors at the Navy Yard in Charlestown, Massachusetts to sign a piece of copper sheathing that was affixed to the ship's hull. The certificate is signed by Captain Richard B. Amirault, United States Navy, 63rd in Command.