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Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson
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Kathryn Ann “Kay” Bailey Hutchison became elected in 1993 by Texans to the United States Senate in a special election, making her the first and, to date, the only woman elected to represent the state in the Senate. She is now the senior United States Senator from Texas. She is a member of a republican party. In, 2001 She was named one of “The 30 most powerful women in America” by Ladies Home Journal. Hutchison serves on the following Senate committees: Appropriations, Commerce, Science and Transportation, Rules and Administration, Veterans’ Affairs. She is also a strong supporter of NASA. (Wikipedia)

Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison

Kay Bailey Hutchison was born in July 22, 1943 in Galveston, Texas. Hutchison was raised in La Marque, Texas. Her first marriage was with John Pierce Parks, a medical student, on April 8, 1967, they divorced in 1969. She afterward married her second husband in Dallas, Ray Hutchison, on March 16, 1978. They have four children; two whom they adopted in 2001, Kathryn Bailey and Houston Taylor. The other two children are stepdaughters, Brenda and Julie from her husband’s previous marriage. Hutchison and her family have their primary residence in Dallas, where her children attend school. Her second house is in Virginia, where she lives when the Senate is in session. Ray Hutchison is a former member of the Texas Legislature and ran an unsuccessful bid for the Texas governorship, having lost the Republican nomination in 1978 to Bill Clements of Dallas. Ray Hutchison is a senior partner with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins. (Wikipedia)
Hutchison’s Texas ancestry run deep. Thomas Rusk of Nacogdoches was the first Texas to hold the U.S. Senate seat she currently occupies. He and Senator Hutchison’s great-great grandfather, Charles S. Taylor, were friends, and both signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. (U.S. Senator) Hutchison graduated with a bachelor’s in Arts from University of Texas at Austin in 1962, she



Cited: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress. (2009) Hutchison, Kathryn Ann Bailey (Kay) (1943-. Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=H001016 Hutchison, Kay Bailey. (2009) Retrieved April 13, 2009, from the Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kay_Bailey_Hutchinson Hutchison, Kay Bailey. (2009) Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Kay_Bailey_Hutchison Hutchison, Kay Bailey. (2009)United States Senator. Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://hutchison.senate.gov/committees.html On the Issues. (2009) Texas Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison. Retrieved April 13, 2009 from http://www.ontheissues.org/Senate/Kay_Bailey_Hutchison.htm The Library of Congress. (2009) Bills, Resolutions. Retrieved April 13, 2009, from http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/R?d110:FLD003:@1(Sen+Hutchison): Urban, Jessica LeAnn (2008). Nation, Immigration, and Environmental Security. New York, New York. Palgrave Macmillan.

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