2008.52.2WW

Single playing card from the "Obama Presidential Playing Cards" deck. Image in the back of each card in the deck is of Senator Obama on a blue field. Image in the center of the face of each card is framed in a black outlined rectangle. WW: Is the ten of Clubs and features "Kathleen Sebelius, Governor of Kansas." She is shown seated on a green map of Kansas "Kansas Votes Obama." Next to her is a poster: "Renewable Energy Is Our Future."

There is a complete set of playing card (52) along with two Jokers. Kathleen Sebelius is the first woman--daughter of a Governor (John Gilligan of Ohio, 1971-1975) to also be elected a Governor in the history of the United States. She was elected to the Kansas state House of Representatives in 1986. In 1994 she was elected State Insurance Commissioner. In 2002 she was elected to serve as the 44th Governor of Kansas, stressing "independent leadership, growing the Kansas economy and creating jobs." In 2005 "Time" magazine named her one of the top five Governors in the US. She is a past Chairman of the Democratic Governors' Association. Sebelius was relected Governor in 2006. An early supporter of Barack Obama's nomination for President, Sebelius' name had been mentioned as a possible Vice Presidential candidate.

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