- Sheila Frahm
Infobox Senator | name=Sheila Frahm
nationality=American
jr/sr=United States Senator
state=Kansas
party=Republican
term=June 11 1996 –November 6 1996
preceded=Bob Dole
succeeded=Sam Brownback
date of birth= birth date and age|1945|03|22
place of birth=Colby, Kansas
spouse=
religion=Sheila Sloan Frahm (born
March 22 1945 ) served in theU.S. Senate as a Republican fromKansas for a brief period in 1996.Frahm was born in
Colby, Kansas . She was a member of the Kansas State board of education from 1985 to 1988, a member of the Kansas State Senate from 1989 to 1995, the majority leader of the Kansas Senate in 1993 and theLieutenant Governor of Kansas from 1995 to 1996. While serving as lieutenant governor, Frahm also served as the state's Secretary of Administration.She was appointed by Governor
Bill Graves to the Senate onJune 11 ,1996 to replaceBob Dole , who resigned from the Senate to devote all of his time to his Presidential campaign. Frahm ran in the special election to succeed him, but she was defeated for the Republican nomination bySam Brownback . Brownback went on to win the November 1996 election, and immediately took office.Frahm moved back to
Colby, Kansas , and became the executive director of the Kansas Association of Community College Trustees.References
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