Brownback walked tall in little Parker

An Associated Press story about Sen. Sam Brownback’s Linn County hometown of Parker, population 281, further fills out the wannabe president’s overachieving youth. Besides being vice president of the national Future Farmers of America and student council president, Sam was so big into parliamentary procedure and speechmaking that he earned the nickname “governor.” He also played quarterback, ran the mile and had a keen interest in entomology. Check out the 1974 yearbook picture of Brownback from Prairie View High School, plaid jacket and all.
Posted by Rhonda Holman

3 Comments

  1. rm6046
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 7:06 am | Permalink

    Thanks for the invitation, Rhonda, but I’d rather keep my root canal appointment.

  2. mrcontroversy
    Posted March 12, 2007 at 10:59 am | Permalink

    Somewhere out there, there are still pictures of Sam with an Afro.

  3. JWink
    Posted March 13, 2007 at 6:14 am | Permalink

    I met a fellow who stood tall in Byers, Kansas, some 20 miles northwest of Pratt near the sand hills, population 35 (+/-). I passed through there one day and noticed the fellow standing in the middle of the town intersection. I stopped to visit briefly. We looked north, south, east and west — no movement, except maybe a tumbleweed. I said to him, “It must get a little lonely here.”

    Is Parker, Kansas, the same sort of community?