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...Sebelius was elected governor of Kansas - a state in which registered Republicans outnumber Democrats by a nearly 2-to-1 margin - in 2002. After a first term in which she helped boost education spending while deftly paring a $1.1 billion budget deficit, she won re-election four years later...
...Sebelius boasts a unique political pedigree: She is one-half of the nation's first father-daughter gubernatorial combo. Her father, John Gilligan, served as Ohio's chief executive in the 1970s...
...TIME named Sebelius one of the country's Five Best Governors...
...Roman Catholic, Sebelius supports abortion rights, a position for which she was assailed by a local archbishop and asked not to take communion...
...husband, Gary Sebelius, is a federal magistrate judge. (His father, Keith Sebelius, was a prominent Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives.) The couple has two sons, Ned and John...