John Philip Kassebaum

{{short description|American attorney and art collector}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1932|10|24}}

| birth_place = Kansas City, Missouri, US

| death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|02|28|1932|10|24}}

| death_place = Charleston, South Carolina, US

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• {{marriage|Nancy Landon|1956|1979|reason=div}}
• {{marriage|Llewellyn Hood|1979}}

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| children = William and Richard

| occupation = Attorney and art collector

| alma_mater = University of Michigan

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John Philip Kassebaum (October 24, 1932 – February 28, 2016) was an American attorney and art collector and former husband of U.S. Senator Nancy Kassebaum.

Kassebaum was born in Kansas City, Missouri. He received a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan Law School."[http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/name/john-kassebaum-obituary?pid=1000000177882318 John Philip Kassebaum October 24, 1932 – February 28, 2016 (Age 83)]", Legacy.com (February 28, 2016). He met Nancy Landon while attending the University of Michigan. They married in 1956 and settled in Maize, Kansas, where they raised four children. They separated in 1975 and divorced in March 1979.{{Cite web |url=http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=125# |title=Women in congress: Nancy Landon Kassebaum |access-date=2013-12-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723033900/http://womenincongress.house.gov/member-profiles/profile.html?intID=125# |archive-date=2011-07-23 |url-status=dead }} Kassebaum then married Llewellyn Hood in August 1979, with whom he remained for the last 40 years of his life.

Beginning in the late 1950s, Kassebaum began collecting Medieval and Renaissance ceramics, including "lead- and tin-glazed pieces from Persia, Spain, Italy, France, Germany, the Netherlands and England"."Ceramics Show Is Scheduled At Spencer", Lawrence Journal-World (January 3, 1982), 8B.

Kassebaum later moved to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina, and became involved in historical preservation projects in Charleston, South Carolina, and Wichita, Kansas. He maintained law offices in Wichita and New York City and was "a frequent lecturer on ceramics and authored various articles on the subject".[http://thelowellpress.com/products/120-the-john-philip-kassebaum-collection.aspx The John Philip Kassebaum Collection]{{dead link|date=April 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}.

His son William Kassebaum is a former member of the Kansas House of Representatives. Another son, filmmaker Richard Kassebaum, died of a brain tumor on August 27, 2008, at the age of 47.

Kassebaum died in Charleston, South Carolina, on February 28, 2016, at the age of 83.