Nancy Kassebaum Baker
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Nancy Josephine Kassebaum Baker was an American politician from Kansas who served as a member of the United States Senate from 1978 to 1997. She was the daughter of Alf Landon, who was Governor of Kansas from 1933 to 1937 and the 1936 Republican nominee for president, and the wife of former U.S. Senate Majority Leader and diplomat Howard Baker.
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Aug 23, 2026
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The trailblazing GOP senator and architect of the 1996 health insurance law with Ted Kennedy died at age 94, prompting obituaries and retrospectives.
Her death evokes nostalgia for an older GOP, but the Far Right sees her as a relic of the moderate sellout era, symbolizing the establishment's willingness to compromise with Democrats on statist healthcare.