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A conversation about campaign finance reform
with Nancy Kassebaum Baker on Apr 17, 1997
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with Nancy Kassebaum Baker on Apr 17, 1997
Nancy Kassebaum Baker
Nancy Kassebaum Baker is an American polician. She represented the state of Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997.
Baker, who went by Nancy Landon Kassebaum while serving in the Senate, was the first woman to serve in the Senate having neither been elected to serve first in the House of Representatives nor having been appointed to fill out the remainder of a term from a husband after his death while in office.
She defeated eight other Republicans in the 1978 primary elections to replace retiring Republican Jim Pearson and then defeated former Democratic Congressman Dr. Bill Roy (who lost his election bid to Kansas’ senior senator, Bob Dole, in 1974) in the general election. She was re-elected to her Senate seat in 1984 and 1990, but did not seek re-election in 1996.
