Former GOP Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker Dies at 94
Former Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a husband into office, has died at age 94. The longtime Kansas senator died Friday...
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Mostly Same. The left frames it as "Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94". The right frames it as "Former GOP Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker Dies at 94".
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Former Republican Sen. Nancy Kassebaum Baker, the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a husband into office, has died at age 94. The longtime Kansas senator died Friday...
Nancy Kassebaum Baker was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1978 and served three terms
Baker, the former wife of the late Tennessee Senator Howard Baker, passed away at 94.
Nancy Kassebaum Baker co-authored a landmark 1996 health insurance law with Ted Kennedy and won Kansas re-election by huge margins twice.
Kassebaum Baker became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor’s daughter who became the first woman elected...
A moderate Republican from Kansas, she served three terms before tiring of political strife. “I couldn’t get elected today,” she said in 2013.