Kassebaum-Baker, Nancy Landon
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...1932 , U.S. senator from Kansas (1979 97), b. Topeka, Kans. A Republican and the daughter of Kansas governor Alfred Mossman (Alf) Landon , she was the first woman who had not entered politics as the widow of a congressman to be elected to the Senate. Kassebaum...