George Washington Glick was the ninth Governor of Kansas, and the state's first Democratic Governor. Glick was raised on his father's farm near Greencastle, Ohio. He enlisted for service in the Mexican–American War, but saw no action.
Time in Office: January 8, 1883 - January 12, 1885
Born: July 4, 1827, Greencastle, Ohio.
Died: April 13, 1911, Atchison, Kansas.
Democratic lawyer and farmer from Atchison.
He is credited with starting what is now the State animal health department
He was also the first vice president of the Kansas Historical Society
Statue of George Washington Glick, erected in Statuary hall of the United States capitol by the state of Kansas: proceedings in the Senate and in the House ... upon the acceptance of the statue
Glick was the Governor of Kansas at the time of the Dodge City War of 1883.
Websites about this Governor
- Governor Records - Glick, 1883-1885
- Glick's Biography on Wikipedia
- State’s statue swap moves ex-governor into obscurity
- Biography on the National Governors Association website
- Glick's messages to the Kansas State Congress on the Kansas State Library website
- The statue of George Washington Glick represented Kansas in the National Statuary Hall Collection from 1914-2003.
- Mark Schuler: George Washington Glick (Artwork)
- Glick Family Crest information
- Glick Mansion in Atchison, Kansas is now a Bed and Breakfast Inn.
- Historical Dictionary of the Gilded Age: Glick entry
- Glick's Bad Boy by E. Vandergrift