William Kassebaum | |
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Member of the KansasHouseofRepresentatives from the 68th district | |
In office January 13, 2003 –January 10, 2005 | |
Preceded by | Shari Weber [1] |
Succeeded by | Shari Weber |
Personal details | |
Born | February 11,1962 |
Political party | Republican |
Parent(s) | Nancy Kassebaum John Philip Kassebaum |
Relatives | Alf Landon (grandfather) Richard Kassebaum (brother) |
William "Bill" Kassebaum (born February 11,1962) is an American Republican politician.
In 2002,Kassebaum ran to serve in the sixty-eighth district of the Kansas House of Representatives,centered in Burdick,Kansas,in Morris County,Kansas. [2] In the Republican primary on August 30,2002,he challenged incumbent representative Shari Weber,and narrowly won,carrying 51.88 percent of the 3,851 ballots cast. [3]
His mother is Nancy Landon Kassebaum,former United States Senator and Alf Landon,Governor of Kansas,was his maternal grandfather. [4] His brother was Richard Kassebaum,a documentary filmmaker.
The 1936 United States presidential election was the 38th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 3,1936. In the midst of the Great Depression,incumbent Democratic President Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated Republican Governor Alf Landon of Kansas. Roosevelt won the highest share of the popular vote (60.3%) and the electoral vote since the largely uncontested 1820 election. The sweeping victory consolidated the New Deal Coalition in control of the Fifth Party System.
Alfred Mossman Landon was an American oilman and politician who served as the 26th governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937. A member of the Republican Party,he was the party's nominee in the 1936 presidential election,and was defeated in a landslide by incumbent President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker is an American politician who represented the State of Kansas in the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She is the daughter of Alf Landon,who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president,and the widow of former Senator and diplomat Howard Baker.
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The 1980 United States Senate election in Kansas took place on November 4,1980. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Bob Dole was re-elected to his third term in office,after briefly campaigning for President earlier that year. He defeated Democrat John Simpson,who had previously served in the Kansas State Senate as a Republican.
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