Nancy Landon Kassebaum
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born July 29, 1932 in Topeka , Kansas ) is a former US American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Kansas in the US Senate .
Nancy Landon is the daughter of Alf Landon , who served as governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and who was incumbent Republican candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election . After finishing school in Topeka, she attended the University of Kansas , where she graduated in 1954. She then earned a Masters in Political History from the University of Michigan in 1956 .
As a result, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, who had carried this name since she married Philip Kassebaum in 1956, worked in a managerial position at a radio station in Wichita . From 1975 to 1976 she was a member of the ethics committee of the state government; she was also a member of the Kansas Humanities Committee until 1979 . She gave up this job after she was the first woman from Kansas to be elected to the US Senate. Previously, she had prevailed against eight Republican competitors as the successor to the no longer candidate James B. Pearson . In the Senate election, she defeated the Democrat William R. Roy .
In 1984 and 1990, Nancy Landon Kassebaum was confirmed before she stopped running in 1996. In the Senate, she made a name for herself with health care bills, with the support of Democratic Senator Edward Kennedy . At times she was chair of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources .
In 1996 she was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society .
From 1996 until his death in June 2014, she was married to Howard Baker , a former US Senator from Tennessee . Bill Kassebaum , her son by first marriage, also became a politician and sat in the Kansas House of Representatives ; her second son Richard died of a brain tumor in August 2008.
Web links
- Nancy Landon Kassebaum in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Member History: Nancy Kassebaum Baker. American Philosophical Society, accessed April 18, 2018 (with a short biography).
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| SURNAME | Kassebaum, Nancy Landon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Landon Kassebaum Baker, Nancy |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 29, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Topeka , Kansas |