Richard Gannon

{{Short description|American politician}}

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{{Infobox officeholder

|name = Richard Gannon

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|state_senate = Kansas

|district = 40th

|term_start = 1977

|term_end = July 11, 1988

|predecessor = J.C. Tillotson

|successor = Sheila Frahm

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|birth_place = Goodland, Kansas, U.S.

|residence = Goodland, Kansas

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|spouse = Martha Ellen Wall

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|party = Democrat

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Richard G. Gannon (born July 29, 1950) is an American former politician who served in the Kansas State Senate as a Democrat from 1977 to 1988.