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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—KansasNancy Landon KASSEBAUM
(1932- )
Senate Years of Service:
1978-1997Party: RepublicanKASSEBAUM, 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.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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