Kay Stark Orr

(1939- ) lives in Lincoln. Politician, first female governor of Nebraska and the first elected Republican woman governor in American history, became in 1984 the first person, male or female, other than a member of Congress or a state's governor to serve as co-chair of the Republican National Convention's Platform Committee. Consult Contemporary Newsmakers 1987 (Gale 1988) 270-272 and Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States 1983-1988 (Meckler, 1989) 219-221.

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