Martha Elizabeth Keys (born August 10, 1930) is a retired Democratic politician who served in the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas from 1975 to 1979.
Born Martha Elizabeth Ludwig in Hutchinson, Kansas, Keys graduated from Paseo High School in Kansas City, Missouri in 1945, attended Olivet College from 1946 to 1947 and earned a B.A. at the University of Missouri in 1951. She was elected a Democrat to the United States House of Representatives from Manhattan, Kansas in 1974 and served two terms before being defeated for reelection in 1978. While serving in the House of Representatives, Keys and her husband divorced, and she was remarried to fellow Congressman Andrew Jacobs, Jr.
She then served as a special adviser to the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare from February 1979 to May 1980 and as an Assistant Secretary of Education from June 1980 to January 1981. Afterwards, she worked as a consultant and as director of the Center for a New Democracy from 1985 to 1986.
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