{"id":77759,"date":"2026-08-22T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/nancy-kassebaum-baker-former-us-senator-from-kansas-dies-aged-94\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T16:55:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T21:55:00","slug":"nancy-kassebaum-baker-former-us-senator-from-kansas-dies-aged-94","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/nancy-kassebaum-baker-former-us-senator-from-kansas-dies-aged-94\/","title":{"rendered":"Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kassebaum Baker became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office<\/p>\n<p>Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/kansas\">Kansas<\/a> governor\u2019s daughter who became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office, has died. She was 94.<\/p>\n<p>Kassebaum Baker died on Friday of natural causes, according to her son, Bill Kassebaum.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/aug\/22\/nancy-kassebaum-baker-dies-aged-94\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kassebaum Baker became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor\u2019s daughter who became the first woman elected to the US Senate without following a spouse into office, has died. She was 94. Kassebaum Baker died on Friday of natural causes, according to &#8230; <a title=\"Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/22\/nancy-kassebaum-baker-former-us-senator-from-kansas-dies-aged-94\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Nancy Kassebaum Baker, former US senator from Kansas, dies aged 94\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}