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Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker (view source)
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'''Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker''' (born July 29, 1932) is an [[United States|American]] retired [[politician]], who represented [[Kansas]] in the [[United States Senate]] for three terms from 1978 to 1997. Her father, [[Alf Landon]], was the [[governor]] of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the failed [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. President|presidential]] nominee in the 1936 race against [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
'''Nancy Landon Kassebaum Baker''' (born July 29, 1932) is an [[United States|American]] retired [[politician]], who represented [[Kansas]] in the [[United States Senate]] for three terms from 1978 to 1997. Her father, [[Alf Landon]], was the [[governor]] of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the failed [[Republican Party|Republican]] [[U.S. President|presidential]] nominee in the 1936 race against [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]].
==Biography==
Kassebaum Baker was born in the capital city of [[Topeka]] while her father was running for his only term as governor. Her mother was the former Theo Cobb.
Kassebaum Baker was born in the capital city of [[Topeka]] while her father was running for his only term as governor. Her mother was the former Theo Cobb.
After graduation from Topeka High School in 1950, she graduated from the [[University of Kansas]] at Lawrence in 1954 and then obtained a master's degree in diplomatic history from the [[University of Michigan]] at [[Ann Arbor]]. She and her first husband settled in Maize, Kansas, where she served on the school board and had four children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033900/http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=125|title=125 women in Congress: Nancy Landon Kassebaum|date=July 23, 2011|accessdate=April 20, 2020}}</ref>>
After graduation from Topeka High School in 1950, she graduated from the [[University of Kansas]] at Lawrence in 1954 and then obtained a master's degree in diplomatic history from the [[University of Michigan]] at [[Ann Arbor]]. She and her first husband settled in Maize, Kansas, where she served on the school board and had four children.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033900/http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=125|title=125 women in Congress: Nancy Landon Kassebaum|date=July 23, 2011|accessdate=April 20, 2020}}</ref>>
Though she had voted in 1991 to confirm the [[African-American]] [[Clarence Thomas]] to the [[United States Supreme Court]], Kassebaum Baker soon soured on the judicial decisions of the [[conservative]] Thomas and questioned whether he had sexually harassed accuser [[Anita Hill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-05-27/news/1995147030_1_justice-thomas-vote-for-thomas-harassment|title=Kassebaum regrets vote for Thomas|publisher=Knight-Rider News Service|date=May 27, 1995|accessdate=April 20, 2020}}</ref>
Though she had voted in 1991 to confirm the [[African-American]] [[Clarence Thomas]] to the [[United States Supreme Court]], Kassebaum Baker soon soured on the judicial decisions of the [[conservative]] Thomas and questioned whether he had sexually harassed accuser [[Anita Hill]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1995-05-27/news/1995147030_1_justice-thomas-vote-for-thomas-harassment|title=Kassebaum regrets vote for Thomas|publisher=Knight-Rider News Service|date=May 27, 1995|accessdate=April 20, 2020}}</ref>
Divorced after twenty-three years of marriage from John Philip Kassebaum, whose name she still used professionally, she married in 1996 the widowed [[Howard Baker]], former U.S. Senator from [[Tennessee]], Senate Majority Leader, and a chief of staff to [[U.S. President]] [[Ronald W. Reagan]] at the height of the [[Iran-Contra affair]]. Kassebaum and Baker had been Senate colleagues from 1978 to 1985, when [[Al Gore]] took the seat that Baker vacated. Kassebaum holds the distinction of being the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without a husband having previously served in Congress.
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