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Famous People from
Stanton County, Kansas including Galen Fiss and James Yancy
Callahan
Galen Fiss was
linebacker who played with the Cleveland Browns
from 1956 to1966. He was captain on Cleveland’s
NFL championship team in 1964. Fiss was
born in the small town of Overland Park in
Stanton County Kansas in 1931.
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James Yancy Callahan lived
in Stanton County, Kansas from 1885 to 1892. In
1886, a year after he moved to Kansas, he was
elected Register of Deeds for Stanton County. He
was reelected in 1888 and served until December
1889, when he resigned and returned to Dent
County, Missouri. In 1892 he moved to Kingfisher
County, Oklahoma. Four years later he was
was nominated for Congressional delegate from
Oklahoma Territory, and was elected running on
the Free Silver ticket to the 55th United States
Congress.
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