Nancy Kassebaum

Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker ( born July 29, 1932 in Topeka, Kansas) is a former American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Kansas in the U.S. Senate.

Nancy Landon is the daughter of Alf Landon, who served from 1933 to 1937 as governor of Kansas, and in the presidential election in 1936, the Republican rival candidate of incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt was. After leaving school in Topeka, she attended the University of Kansas, where he made in 1954 to an end. After that, she earned a master's in political history in 1956 at the University of Michigan.

As a result, Nancy Landon Kassebaum was that since her marriage to Philip Kassebaum 1956 bore this name, in a leading position at a radio station in Wichita operates. From 1975 to 1976, she then was a member of the Ethics Committee of the State Government; Moreover, they sat until 1979 in the Humanities Committee of Kansas. This activity gave up on them after they had been elected the first woman from Kansas in the U.S. Senate. Previously, she had prevailed against eight Republican competitors as the successor of not more candidates James B. Pearson. In the Senate election, she defeated Democrat William R. Roy.

In the years 1984 and 1990 Nancy Landon Kassebaum was confirmed in each case, before they no longer took in 1996. In the Senate, she made herself especially with bills to health care a name, it was supported by Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy. At times, she was chairman of the Committee on Labor and Human Resources Committee.

Since 1996 she has been with Howard Baker, a former U.S. Senator from Tennessee, married. Bill Kassebaum, her son from her first marriage, also became a politician and was sitting in the House of Representatives from Kansas; her second son Richard died in August 2008 of a brain tumor.