Billy Q. McCray Elected from Sedgwick County to the Kansas House
in 1966 and to the Kansas Senate in 1972, Mr. McCray, a member of the
Democratic Party and employed by the Boeing Company, served in the legislature
for eighteen years. When he became director of the Office of Minority
Business for the Kansas Department of Economic Development, he resigned
from the Legislature in 1984. Two years later, he was elected to the Sedgwick
County Commission.
Representative Billy Q. McCray’s autobiography
of electoral politics
in Kansas from 1966 to 1993.
Published in 2000 by Mennonite Press, Newton, Kansas.
Written by Michael Schreiner for the Department of History
at the University of Kansas, this 1992 Honors Thesis is based
on the papers of Representative Clarence Love and Senator
Billy Q. McCray.
Opinion Ballot distributed by Senator Billy Q. McCray, 1970s.