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In this letter Governor Lyman Humphrey of Topeka (Shawnee County) responds to John Hughes of Howard (Elk County) regarding a petition requesting a special session of the legislature to provide farmers relief from mortgages. The Farmer's Alliance and Labor's Union of America of Kansas produced and sponsored the petition. Mr. Hughes sent the first of such petitions to the Governor. The Alliance later cited the Governor's response to this petition in a circular it distributed with the petition forms. See Electors of Chautauqua County to Governor Lyman Humphrey, December 20, 1889-[n.d.], 1890.
Creator: Humphrey, Lyman Underwood, 1844-1915
Date: December 11, 1889
This source can be used within discussions of why farmers were discontented and began organizing into Farmer's Alliances.
KS:7th:4.2:Populism (2005)
Item Number: 207969
Call Number: Governor's Records--Humphrey--Letterpress books, No. 91
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 207969
Agriculture - Farm organizations - Farmer's Alliance
Business and Industry - Banking
Business and Industry - Occupations/Professions - Farmers
Collections - State Archives - Governor's Records - Humphrey, Lyman Underwood
Curriculum - 7th Grade Standards - Kansas History Standards - 1880s to 1920s (Benchmark 4) - Populism (Indicator 2) - High debts and low prices for farmers
Date - 1880s - 1889
Government and Politics - Political Parties - Populist
Government and Politics - Reform and Protest - Populism
Government and Politics - State Government - Governors - Humphrey, Lyman Underwood
Government and Politics - State Government - Legislature
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Letter
People - Notable Kansans - Humphrey, Lyman Underwood, 1844-1915
Places - Cities and towns - Howard
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Elk
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Thematic Time Period - Age of Reform, 1880 - 1917 - Populism, 1890 - 1900
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Letters
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