Andrew Frank Schoeppel (23 November 1894-21 January 1962) was the Republican Governor of Kansas from 11 January 1943 to 13 January 1947 (succeeding Payne Ratner and preceding Frank Carlson) and a US Senator from 3 January 1949 to 21 January 1962 (succeeding Arthur Capper and preceding James B. Pearson).
Biography[]
Andrew Frank Schoeppel was born in Claflin, Kansas in 1894 to immigrant parents from Bohemia, and he served in the US Navy during World War I before becoming a lawyer and serving as county attorney of Ness County. He also became an early local official of Ness City (later serving as its Mayor), served as Governor of Kansas from 1943 to 1947, and served in the US Senate from 1949 to 1962, voting for the Civil Rights Act of 1957 but not voting on the Civil Rights Act of 1960. He died in office in 1962.