Word: kassebaum
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...election marked the further erosion of the two-party system. Ticket splitting was rampant. Unpredictable, independent-minded voters gave Republican Milliken a third term in the Michigan statehouse but ejected G.O.P. Senator Robert Griffin. In Kansas, Republican Governor Robert Bennett was ousted by Democrat John Carlin, but Republican Nancy Kassebaum coasted to an easy victory over her Democratic opponent, Bill Roy, and thus became the only woman to serve in the Senate at the present time...
Kansas Republicans achieved the historic feat of sending the first woman to a full term in the Senate without any help from a husband's previous political career.* To be sure, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, did not hide the fact that she was 1936 Presidential Candidate Alf Landon's daughter, no handicap in Kansas despite Landon's humiliating loss to F.D.R. But she proved a candid and outgoing campaigner, and her fresh personality meshed neatly with the voters' yearnings for change. Her opponent, Democrat Bill Roy, a physician and lawyer, had run unsuccessfully for the Senate before and had been...
...Robert Graham (D) Georgia George Busbee (D) Sam Nunn (D) Hawaii Too Close to Call Idaho John V. Evans (D) Too Close to Call Illinois James R. Thompson (R) Charles H. Percy (R) Indiana Iowa Robert Ray (R) Too Close to Call Kansas Too Close to Call Nancy L. Kassebaum (R) Kentucky Walter Huddleston (D) Louisiana J. Bennett Johnston (D) Maine Too Close to Call William S. Cohen (R) Maryland Harry R. Hughes (D) Massachusetts Edward J. King (D) Paul E. Tsongas (D) Michigan William G. Milliken (R) Carl M. Levin (D) Minnesota Too Close to Call Rudy Boschwitz...
KANSAS. The Republican Senate primary was a triumph of sentimentality, a belated vicarious victory for native son Alfred Landon, who lost so spectacularly to Franklin Roosevelt in the 1936 Presidential Election. Landon's daughter, Nancy Landon Kassebaum, 46, a separated mother of four and former aide to incumbent Senator James Pearson, who is retiring, outpolled eight rivals, all of whom grumbled that they did not have her name. Indeed, she made the most of it. "A fresh voice," proclaimed her TV ads, "and a trusted name." Her father, a spry 90, did not participate much in the campaign...