Edwin Sexton

Edwin T. Sexton Jr. (c. 1923 – September 16, 1983) was a state legislator in Kansas. A Republican, he was appointed to fill an unexpired term. He was a newspaper editor in Wichita, Kansas.

Sexton was born in Wichita, Kansas, served in the United States Army, and studied at the University of Wichita and University of Chicago. He was appointed to the Kansas Senate by Kansas governor John Anderson Jr. after William C. Farmer resigned. He had been a field representative for congressman Garner E. Shriver. After stepping down from the Kansas Senate, Sexton moved to Silver Spring, Maryland, and became a member of the Republican National Committee in 1966, and also directed the black political division and served as deputy assistant to the RNC chair. Between 1973 and 1977, Sexton worked for the United States Department of Commerce as deputy director of the minority business division. He was also active in the Black Republican Council and the NAACP.