Nancy Kassebaum

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Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker (née Landon; July 29, 1932 – August 21, 2026) was an American politician who served as a Republican member of the United States Senate from Kansas from 1978 to 1997. She was the daughter of Alf Landon, who was governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the Republican nominee in the 1936 presidential election, and the wife of former U.S. Senate majority leader and diplomat Howard Baker. With her election to the Senate in 1978, Kassebaum entered the national spotlight as the only woman in the U.S. Senate at the time, and as the first woman to represent Kansas in that chamber. She was also the first woman ever elected to a full term in the Senate without succeeding her spouse. In her three terms in the Senate, Kassebaum demonstrated a political independence that made her a key figure in building bipartisan coalitions in foreign affairs and domestic policy. As chair of the Senate Subcommittee on African Affairs, she played a limited role in legislation to sanction...

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