Education
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 Bachelor of Arts at the University of Missouri in 1951.
United States representative politician
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 Bachelor of Arts at the University of Missouri in 1951.
She was a housewife. Later, she was a Democratic campaigner in 1964 and 1968. She ran the McGovern presidential campaign in Kansas in 1972. When Bill Roy retired from the United States. Congress she was persuaded to run for the seat by her brother-in-law, Senator Gary Hart, a Colorado Democrat.
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.
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. Keys"s sister Lee is married to former United States. Senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart.
Afterwards, she worked as a consultant and as director of the Center for a New Democracy from 1985 to 1986.