Kathryn Ann "Kay" Bailey Hutchison (born July 22, 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas and a candidate for the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. She is the first female U.S. senator elected in Texas.
As of September 2009, Hutchison is the most senior female Republican Senator, and fifth most se...
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Kathryn Ann "Kay" Bailey Hutchison (born July 22, 1943), is the senior United States Senator from Texas and a candidate for the 2010 Texas gubernatorial election. She is a member of the Republican Party. In 2001, she was named one of the thirty most powerful women in America by Ladies Home Journal. She is the first female U.S. senator elected in Texas.
As of September 2009, Hutchison is the most senior female Republican Senator, and fifth most senior female Senator, having assumed office in June 1993 behind Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD, 1987), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA, 1992), Barbara Boxer (D-CA, Jan. 1993), and Patty Murray (D-WA, Jan. 1993).
Hutchison was born in Galveston to the former Kathryn Ella Sharp and Allan Abner Bailey, Jr., an insurance agent. She has two brothers, Allan and Frank. Hutchison grew up in La Marque, Texas.
She married her first husband, John Pierce Parks, a medical student, on April 8, 1967; they divorced in 1969. She married her second husband, in Dallas,...
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