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Della M. Hadley (born January 27, 1929) is an American politician who served as a Missouri state representative. She was educated at Lawrence public schools, the University of Kansas, and Purdue University, earning a degree in Political Science. She married Stephen D. Hadley in 1948 in
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, with whom she had four children. They lived in
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from 1951 until 1986 when they moved back to the Lawrence area. Mr. Hadley, a mechanical engineer and a European theater World War II Army veteran, died on February 22, 1990, in Lawrence, Kansas. Hadley was elected to the Kansas City School Board in 1973 (or 1972?). As a member, she was the lead plaintiff in Hadley v. Junior College District of Metropolitan Kansas City, 397 U.S. 50 (1970), a one man-one vote case that was taken to the
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. In 1974, 1976 and 1978 she was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives, serving 6 years total. One of her goals there was to get Missouri to ratify the
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to the U.S. Constitution.


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Della M. Hadley ourcampaigns.com
1929 births Living people Women state legislators in Missouri Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives {{Missouri-politician-stub