Janis Crilly Meyers

(1928- ) born at Lincoln, lived in Wilber, Saline County, and Superior, Nuckolls County. Public relations, homemaker, community volunteer, politician, served from 1985 to 1997 as U.S. Congresswoman from Third District of Kansas, where she worked to expand scope of Small Business Administration and to halt international drug trade, voted to approve balanced-budget constitutional amendment, to ban certain assault weapons, to safeguard access to abortion clinics; previously was member and president of Overland Park, Kansas City Council for five years, and elected to Kansas Senate for 12 years; recipient of numerous awards and honors, including Outstanding Elected Official of Year. Consult Sunday /Omaha/ World Herald, January 6, 1985, p. A-5 and Working Woman, June 1985, p. 50 and Women In Congress 1917-1990 (U.S. Government Printing, 1991) 165-166 and Congressional Quarterly's Politics in America 1996, 104th Congress (Congressional Quarterly, 1995) 517-519 and Who's Who in America, Vol 2 (2002) 3603.

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