Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker (née Landon; born July 29, 1932 [1]) is a retired American politician from Kansas who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997.

2025年1月3日 · Nancy Kassebaum is an American Republican politician who was the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate. She served from 1978 to 1997. During her tenure, she focused on health care issues and worked to end apartheid in South Africa.

The daughter of Alfred M. Landon, the Republican governor of Kansas who challenged Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 presidential election, Kassebaum served three terms in the Senate, beginning on December 3, 1978.

2025年1月2日 · Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum, the first woman to represent Kansas, is one of 20 people set to receive the Presidential Citizens Medal Thursday from President Biden.

Nancy Kassebaum Baker U.S. Senator from Kansas (1978–1997) Elected to the Senate in 1978, Nancy Kassebaum was the only woman senator when she took office. By the time she left office in 1997, the number of women in the Senate had grown to nine.

U.S. senator (R-Kansas), noted for both independence and consensus-building, who worked on legislation in foreign affairs, aviation, labor, welfare and health-care reform. Name variations: Nancy Baker.

1996年9月9日 · As a U.S. senator from Kansas, Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (born 1932) was a political maverick whose stands ranged from support of the Equal Rights Amendment and a woman's right to choose abortion to support for the failed …

When he chose not to seek reelection in 1978, Kassebaum entered the race and won a hard fought primary and general election. She was the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate. Senator-elect Kassebaum officially took office on December 23, 1978.

2025年1月2日 · Former U.S. Sen. Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas talks about her Senate career, relationship with the late U.S. Sen. Bob Dole and erosion of a commitment to bipartisanship during an appearance at the...

Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker represented Kansas in the U.S. Senate from 1978 to 1997. She was the first woman to represent Kansas in the U.S. Senate and the first woman to chair a major U.S. Senate committee (Labor and Human Resources). Baker was …