TOPEKA (KSNT) - Former Kansas Congresswoman Martha Keys has died. She was 94 years old.
Grayson Moore, Special Projects Manager for the U.S. Association of Former Members of Congress (FMC), told 27 News on Friday that Keys passed away Thursday. Moore said she was an active member of the association before her health declined in recent years.
Keys served as a Democratic representative for Kansas' second Congressional district from 1975-1979. She then went on to serve as a special adviser to the secretary of the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare from February 1979 to May 1980, and as an assistant secretary of education from June 1980 to January 1981. She worked as the consultant and director for Center for a New Democracy from 1985 to 1986.
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