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Larry Alley
Larry Alley
Majority Leader of the Kansas Senate
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; April 9, 2021; Acting: April 9, 2021 – May 26, 2021
Preceded by	Gene Suellentrop
Member of the Kansas Senate; from the 32nd district
	Incumbent
	Assumed office ; January 9, 2017
Preceded by	Steve Abrams
Personal details
Born	September 23, 1948 (age 76); Douglass, Kansas, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Sondra
Children	2
Education	Pittsburg State University (BS)

Larry Alley (born September 23, 1948) is an American politician who has served in the Kansas Senate from the 32nd district since 2017.^[1] Following the removal on April 9, 2021 of Gene Suellentrop from the office of Majority Leader, Alley, who was the Republican Assistant Leader, succeeded him in an acting capacity. He is the current Senate Majority Leader.

Early life

Alley received a BSIT degree from Kansas State College of Pittsburg.^[2] He is the former CEO of Eastside Development, in Winfield, Kansas, and a former project manager for Spirit Aerosystems in Wichita, Kansas.^[3]^[4]

Political career

In 2014, Alley ran as a Republican for state representative of the 79th district (in south-central Kansas, including most of Sumner and Cowley counties), barely winning in initial vote counts, but ultimately lost to incumbent Democrat Ed Trimmer by 17 votes.^[3]^[5] In 2017, he ran as for state senator of the 79th district (in far-south-central Kansas, including Barber, Comanche, Harper, and Sumner counties, and parts of Sedgwick, Kingman and Cowley counties) and won.^[6]^[7]

Alley served as Senate Assistant Majority Leader in 2021.^[4] In April 2021, he was suddenly elevated to Acting Senate Majority Leader, immediately following the arrest of Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop (on drunk-driving and resisting arrest charges). Rather than Suellentrop resigning his caucus position, Senate President Ty Masterson had said most of Suellentrop's duties would be temporarily assigned to Alley, in the words of Suellentrop, "...until matters that I am currently dealing with are resolved."^[8]^[9]^[10] The Republican caucus elected Alley permanent majority leader at the end of the 2021 legislative session. Alley indicated his priority was focused on redistricting.^[11]

In 2024, Alley declared intent to run for re-election.^[6]

Leadership and committees

Alley continued as Senate Majority Leader after his re-election in the 2022 general election. He chaired the confirmation committee and the executive committee on ways and means. He is vice-chair of the 2024 joint committee on state-tribal relations and was vice-chair of the 2021 special committee on liquor law modernization.^[12] He has been chairman of the Senate's committee on federal and state affairs, and a vice chair of its education committee^[6]