Pat Roberts

Pat Roberts
Roberts in 2015
United States Senator from Kansas
In office January 3, 1997 – January 3, 2021
Preceded by	Nancy Kassebaum
Succeeded by	Roger Marshall
Chair of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee
In office January 3, 2015 – January 3, 2021
Preceded by	Debbie Stabenow
Succeeded by	Debbie Stabenow
Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee
In office January 3, 2003 – January 3, 2007
Preceded by	Bob Graham
Succeeded by	Jay Rockefeller
Chair of the Senate Ethics Committee
In office January 20, 2001 – June 6, 2001
Preceded by	Harry Reid
Succeeded by	Harry Reid
In office November 19, 1999 – January 3, 2001
Preceded by	Bob Smith
Succeeded by	Harry Reid
Chair of the House Agriculture Committee
In office January 3, 1995 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Kika de la Garza
Succeeded by	Robert Smith
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas's 1st district
In office January 3, 1981 – January 3, 1997
Preceded by	Keith Sebelius
Succeeded by	Jerry Moran
Personal details
Born	Charles Patrick Roberts (1936-04-20) April 20, 1936 (age 88) Topeka, Kansas, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Franki Fann ​ (m. 1969)​
Children	3
Education	Kansas State University (BA)
Website	Senate website
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Branch/service	United States Marine Corps
Years of service	1958–1962
Rank	First Lieutenant
Pat Roberts's voice Roberts opens a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing on post-9/11 intelligence community restructuring Recorded July 20, 2004

Charles Patrick Roberts (born April 20, 1936) is a retired American politician and journalist who served as a United States senator from Kansas from 1997 to 2021. A member of the Republican Party, Roberts served 8 terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, from 1981 to 1997, before his election to the Senate.

Born in Topeka, Kansas, Roberts is a graduate of Kansas State University. He served as a First Lieutenant in the U.S. Marine Corps and worked as a newspaper reporter before entering politics in the late 1960s. He was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1980 to succeed 1st District Congressman Keith Sebelius, for whom he had worked. He served eight terms in the House, including one as chairman of the House Agriculture Committee.

Roberts was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1996. On the Intelligence Committee, he was responsible for an investigation into the intelligence failures prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was the dean of Kansas's congressional delegation and Chairman of the Senate Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Committee (ANF). He is the first person to chair both the House and the Senate agriculture committees.^[1]

On January 4, 2019, Roberts announced that he would not seek reelection in 2020.^[2] He was succeeded by Representative Roger Marshall of Great Bend on January 3, 2021.