Oscar Stanley Stauffer (November 26, 1886 – February 24, 1982) was the founder of the media company Stauffer Communications and is often credited with starting the bandwagon for Kansas Governor Alf Landon getting the Republican nomination for President of the United States in 1936.
White fired him in 1908 to force him to attend the journalism school at the University of Kansas.
[4] After graduating from college, he worked five years at The Kansas City Star.
[6] In 1975, the Kansas State High School Activities Association began the Oscar Stauffer Award, which each year honors a sports broadcaster and newspaper reporter for their outstanding coverage of high school athletics in the state.
In 1982, Oscar died at the age of 95, and was buried at Mount Hope Cemetery in Topeka, Kansas.