This undated portrait depicts Jesse Connell, a Kentuckian who moved to Leavenworth, Kansas in 1855. Connell, a slave-owner, served as a delegate to the Lecompton Constitutional Convention in 1857, and was later elected to the Senate of the first Kansas State Legislature.

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Picturing the War
Bleeding Kansas, Bloodletting Missouri
Bogus Legislature
Lecompton Constitutional Convention

Leavenworth, Kansas
Leavenworth County, Kansas

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Bates County Historical Society

General Collection

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