"Kansas Senator" Nancy Kassebaum Hand Signed 3X5 Card JG Autographs COA

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"Kansas Senator" Nancy Kassebaum Hand Signed 3X5 Card.
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ES-4023E
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. Kassebaum was elected to the
American Philosophical Society
in 1996. Baker was born in
Topeka, Kansas
, the daughter of
Kansas First Lady
Theo (née Cobb) and Governor
Alf Landon
. She attended Topeka High School and graduated in 1950. She graduated from the
University of Kansas
in
Lawrence
in 1954, where she was a member of
Kappa Alpha Theta
. In 1956, she received a master's degree in diplomatic history from the
University of Michigan
, where she met her first husband,
Philip Kassebaum
. They married in 1956. They settled in
Maize, Kansas
, where they raised two children. She worked as vice president of Kassebaum Communications, a family-owned company that operated several radio stations. Kassebaum also served on the Maize School Board. In 1975, Kassebaum and her husband were legally separated; their divorce became final in 1979. Kassebaum worked in Washington, D.C., as a caseworker for Senator
James B. Pearson
of Kansas in 1975, but returned to Kansas the following year.