James Madison Harvey was a United States Senator from Kansas and fifth Governor of Kansas. Born near Salt Sulphur Springs, Virginia, Harvey attended common schools in Indiana, Illinois, and Iowa.
Time in Office: January 11, 1869 - January 13, 1873
Born: September 21, 1833, Monroe County, Virginia.
Died: April 15, 1894 near Junction City, Kansas.
Republican soldier from Fort Riley. (He commanded the 4th and 10th Kansas Infantry regiments during the Civil War.)
Harvey County, Kansas was named in honor of Governor Harvey
Websites about this Governor
- Governors Records - Harvey, 1869-1873
- Biography of Harvey on Wikipedia
- Harvey information on the National Governors Association website
- Governors papers and speeches on the KSHS website
- Harveys Annual Messages on the Kansas State Library website
- A County and A Governor: James M. Harvey
- Governor Harvey Biography on Kansas Genweb
- Military Correspondence on Kansas Memory
- Papers of James Madison Harvey, 1873-1894 at the Kenneth Spencer Research Library (KU)
- The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography Harvey Entry (Google Book in PDF Format)
- Harvey Biography on Kansas Genealogy Trails website
