Sheila Frahm

Sheila Frahm ( born Sheila Sloan, born March 22, 1945 in Colby, Thomas County, Kansas) is an American politician. She was briefly U.S. Senator of her home state of Kansas.

Life

Sheila Sloan grew up in the small town of 5300 inhabitants, Colby, where she earned her degree in 1963 at the local high school. She enrolled in the connector on the Fort Hays State University one where she studied education. In 1967, she successfully passed the Bachelor's degree examination. After marriage with Kenneth Frahm she took his family name. The couple were parents of three daughters.

Frahm was after many years working in education, sat in the council of their old high school, before she moved to the northwestern area of Kansas in the branch office of the Ministry of Education. 1985 he moved to the Ministry of Education of Kansas; In 1987 she was elected Vice Chairman.

Her political career began in the Republican Sheila Frahm, when she was elected in 1988 to the Senate of Kansas. She was also the first woman who was sworn in as the majority party leader ( Majority Leader ). In 1995, after seven years in the Senate, they appointed Bill Graves, the newly elected governor of Kansas, to his Deputy Governor. Following the resignation of Senator Bob Dole, who wanted 1996 to replace Bill Clinton as U.S. president, appointed Governor Graves on 24 May 1996 Sheila Frahm to Dole's successor in Congress.

Sheila Frahm was just four months from June to November 1996, U.S. Senator. Although she displayed her dedication, occurred in the Senate for education and job creation, yet was presented at the Republican Sam Brownback as a candidate for the Senate campaign of 1996.

After her retirement from the Senate in November 1996, Frahm withdrew from politics. Since 1997, she is on the board of the Kansas Association of Community College Trustees, in which the administration and educational alignment of all 19 state colleges in Kansas is coordinated. In 2002 she was elected chair of the Board.

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