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of LL. D. by the Kansas Agricultural College. He was chairman 
of the Kansas State Dairy Commission in 1907-08 and was also 
chairman of the State Entomological Commission 1909-14. He 
was elected an honorary life member of the Kansas State Horti- 
cultural Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the 
Kansas State Editorial Association. Mr. CosBurn was tentatively 
offered the presidency of the Kansas, Illinois and Oklahoma 
Agricultural Colleges. 
Political honors were not uncommon. He refused the nomi- 
nation as candidate for governor from the Republican Party in 
1898 at the Kansas City meeting of the State Editorial Associa- 
tion, but polled some eighty-odd votes at the state convention 
despite his refusal. He was appointed by Governor E. W. Hocu 
to fill the senatorial vacancy caused by the resignation of J. R. 
Burton in 1906, but declined to leave his agricultural post. He 
was considered by two different presidents for the national secre- 
taryship of agriculture, but blocked local booms tending to aid, 
him in such an undertaking. In 1908-09-10 he was a member of 
the joint Kansas-Oklahoma committee to investigate the Kansas 
penitentiary, being appointed by Governor Hoc and reap- 
pointed by Governor Stupps. On Nov. 8, 1916, he was 
appointed by Gov. Capper a trustee of the “Industrial and Edu- 
cational Institute of Topeka” (colored), and one week later was 
made its president. Four times he was unanimously elected presi- 
dent of the Kansas State Temperance Union, and on declining 
reelection was made its treasurer. He was chairman of its execu- 
tive committee for ten years. In 1917 he was appointed by 
PRESIDENT WILSON a member of one of the two Exemption Appeal 
Boards for Kansas, and served as chairman until his resignation. 
