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Duane Goossen

American politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ5310334 ↗
Source-derived summary

Duane Goossen (August 21, 1955) is the former Kansas Secretary of Administration and the Director of the Kansas Division of the Budget. Goossen has served as the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Administration since 2004 and Director of the Kansas Division of the Budget since 1998. Goossen also served in the Kansas House of Representatives 1983 to 1997.

Goossen has a Masters of Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and has served as president of the National Association of State Budget Officers.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Duane Goossen” as american politician. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1955, 2004, 1998, 1983—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Duane, Goossen and American can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as american politician. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5310334. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1955, 2004, 1998 and 1983.

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This entry incorporates text from “Duane Goossen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.