Public Biography
Senator Warren Briscoe is a Republican United States senator from Kansas, serving since 2019. He is the lead sponsor of the National Dissolution and Bilateral Sovereignty Act, the first legislation in American history to propose the formal partition of the United States into two sovereign nations.
Mr. Briscoe was born in Salina, Kansas, and attended Kansas State University, where he studied agricultural economics and served as president of the Student Senate — an experience he has described as “the most functional legislative body I have ever been part of, and I include the one I currently serve in.” He earned a law degree from Washburn University School of Law in Topeka and practiced agricultural and water rights law in Wichita for fourteen years before entering politics.
He served two terms in the Kansas State Senate and one term in the U.S. House of Representatives before his election to the Senate in 2018. He sits on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, the Committee on Agriculture, and the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. He has described his legislative portfolio as “land, food, and whether the country that contains them should continue to exist as a single entity.”
Mr. Briscoe is the author of The Orderly Divorce: Why Nations That Cannot Agree Should Stop Trying (Threshold Editions, 2025), a book he says was intended as a thought experiment until “the thought began to seem more practical than the experiment.”
He lives in Wichita with his wife, a retired veterinarian, and two Labrador retrievers he has named after the two Dakotas, a choice he describes as “aspirational.”