Baker, Nancy Kassebaum, 1932-
Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (née Landon; born July 29, 1932) is an American politician who represented the State of Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president, and the widow of former Senator and diplomat Howard Baker. She was the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without her husband having previously served in Congress. She is also the first woman to have represented Kansas in the Senate.
Born in Topeka, Kansas, Nancy Landon graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence in 1954 before earning a master's degree in diplomatic history from the University of Michigan in 1956. After marrying her first husband and moving back to Kansas, she worked as vice president of Kassebaum Communications, a family-owned company that operated several radio stations and also served on the Maize School Board. Kassebaum worked in Washington, D.C., as a caseworker for Senator James B. Pearson of Kansas in 1975.
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