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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).
BibliographyKassebaum, 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 OConnor, and Nancy Landon Kassebaum. New
York: Vantage Press, 1991.
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