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LaTurner Appointed as Kansas Treasurer

By Jim McLean
Published April 18, 2017 at 6:57 PM CDT
State Sen. Jake LaTurner was announced Tuesday as Gov. Sam Brownback's pick to succeed Ron Estes as state treasurer. LaTurner, of Pittsburg, has served in the Kansas Senate since 2013. At left is his wife, Suzanne. (photo credit: Jim McLean/Kansas News Service)
State Sen. Jake LaTurner was announced Tuesday as Gov. Sam Brownback's pick to succeed Ron Estes as state treasurer. LaTurner, of Pittsburg, has served in the Kansas Senate since 2013. At left is his wife, Suzanne. (photo credit: Jim McLean/Kansas News Service)

Governor Sam Brownback has named Republican State Senator Jake LaTurner, from Pittsburg, to be Kansas’s state treasurer, replacing Ron Estes, who’s bound for Congress as the new 4th district representative. The 29-year-old LaTurner says the appointment ends any plans he had been making to run for the 2nd District congressional seat with Lynn Jenkins retiring. 

Ron Estes is expected to resign as treasurer next week, once a state board certifies his win. Estes defeated Democrat James Thompson in a surprisingly close special election for the seat vacated by Republican Mike Pompeo, who left to become director of the CIA. 

 
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Jim McLean
Jim McLean, Executive Editor of KHI News Service, oversees the KHI News Service. From 2005 until 2013, McLean coordinated all communications activities at KHI as Vice President for Public Affairs. The position he now occupies was created as part of a strategic initiative to solidify the editorial and operational independence of the KHI News Service. Prior to coming to KHI, McLean had a distinguished career as a journalist, serving as the news director and Statehouse bureau chief for Kansas Public Radio and a managing editor for the Topeka Capital-Journal. During his more than 20 years in Kansas journalism, McLean won numerous awards for journalistic excellence from the Kansas Press Association, regional chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists and the Kansas Association of Broadcasters. In 1997, McLean and two Capital-Journal colleagues received the Burton W. Marvin News Enterprise Award from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism for a series of stories on the state’s business climate. McLean holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Washburn University.
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