William Kassebaum | |
State House: | Kansas |
District: | 68th |
Term Start: | January 13, 2003 |
Term End: | January 10, 2005 |
Predecessor: | Shari Weber[1] |
Successor: | Shari Weber |
Birth Date: | 11 February 1962 |
Parents: | Nancy Kassebaum John Philip Kassebaum |
Party: | Republican |
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.