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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasKASSEBAUM, Nancy Landon
(1932—)
Senate Years of Service:
1978-1997
Party:
Republican
KASSEBAUM, Nancy Landon, (wife of Howard Henry Baker, Jr., now Nancy Kassebaum Baker), a Senator from Kansas; born in Topeka, Shawnee County, Kans., July 29, 1932; attended the public schools of Topeka, Kans.; graduated, University of Kansas 1954; received a graduate degree from the University of Michigan 1956; radio station executive, Wichita, Kans.; member, Kansas governmental ethics commission 1975-1976; member, Kansas committee for the humanities 1975-1979; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate, November 7, 1978, for the six-year term commencing January 3, 1979; subsequently appointed by the Governor, December 23, 1978, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of James B. Pearson, for the term ending January 3, 1979; reelected in 1984 and again in 1990 and served from December 23, 1978, to January 3, 1997; not a candidate for reelection in 1996; chairman, Committee on Labor and Human Resources (One Hundred Fourth Congress).
Bibliography
Kassebaum, Nancy Landon. “To Form a More Perfect Union.” Presidential Studies Quarterly
18 (Spring 1988): 241-49; Marshall-White, Eleanor. Women, Catalysts for Change: Interpretive Biographies of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Nancy Landon Kassebaum
. New York: Vantage Press, 1991.
Kaptur, Marcy. “Nancy Landon Kassebaum.” In Women of Congress: A Twentieth Century Odyssey
, pp. 195-203. Washington: Congressional Quarterly Inc., 1996.
Kassebaum, Nancy Landon. “To Form a More Perfect Union.”Presidential Studies Quarterly
18 (Spring 1988): 241-49.
Marshall-White, Eleanor. Women, Catalysts for Change: Interpretive Biographies of Shirley St. Hill Chisholm, Sandra Day O’Connor, and Nancy Landon Kassebaum
. New York: Vantage Press, 1991.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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