Martha Keys

Martha Keys

Martha Elizabeth Keys (born August 10, 1930 in Hutchinson , Kansas ) is an American politician . Between 1975 and 1979 she represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Martha Keys was born Martha Ludwig on August 10, 1930. She attended Paseo High School in Kansas City ( Missouri ) until 1945 . She then continued her education until 1947 at Olivet College in Kankakee ( Illinois ) and then until 1951 at the University of Missouri . In 1949 she married Sam Keys, a university professor with whom she has four children.

Politically, she became a member of the Democratic Party . In the 1974 congressional elections, she was elected as their candidate in the second district of Kansas to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where she succeeded William R. Roy on January 3, 1975 . After re-election in 1976, she was able to serve two terms in Congress until January 3, 1979 . Keys was a member of the Committee on Ways and Means . During this time she met Andrew Jacobs, a member of the Indiana MP . Both divorced their spouses and subsequently married. A press scandal developed from this, which was one of the reasons for her being voted out in 1978.

Between February 1979 and May 1980 she was an advisor to the Ministry of Health, Education and Welfare ; from June 1980 to January 1981 she worked as a department head in the Ministry of Education . In 1985 and 1986 she was director of the think tank Center for a New Democracy founded by US Senator Gary Hart .

Web links

• Martha Keys in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Women in Congress (English)