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Nancey Harrington

American former politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
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Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ111083805 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nancey D. Harrington (born November 8, 1953) is an American former politician.

Harrington was born in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania. She was appointed to the Kansas Senate's 26th district in December 1994, following the resignation of Todd Tiahrt. She won two elections in her own right as a Republican candidate in 1996 and 2000, and resigned her office in 2003.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nancey Harrington” is american former politician. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nancey, Harrington and American, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1953, 1994, 1996, 2000—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nancey, Harrington and American is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111083805. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1953, 1994, 1996 and 2000.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nancey Harrington” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.