Editing Nancy Kulp (section)

==Politics, academia and retirement==
Nancy Kulp served on the board of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) while living in California. In 1984, after working with the Democratic state committee in her home state of Pennsylvania "on a variety of projects" over a period of years, Kulp ran unopposed as the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] nominee for the [[United States House of Representatives]] from [[Pennsylvania's 9th congressional district]].<ref name="Campaign">{{cite web |agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1984/02/02/us/campaign-notes-actress-in-pennsylvania-to-run-for-congress.html?scp=5&sq=%22nancy%20kulp%22&st=cse |title=Campaign Notes{{Snd}} Actress in Pennsylvania To Run for Congress |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=February 2, 1984 |access-date=November 17, 2012 }}</ref> As an opponent of six-term Republican [[Bud Shuster]] in a Republican-dominated district, Kulp was a decided underdog. Sixty-two years old at the time, Kulp said some voters might feel her background as an actress was "frivolous", but she noted that [[Ronald Reagan]] had taken the route from screen to politics, and she said anyone who "listens and cares" can do well.<ref name="Campaign"/>

To her dismay, her ''Hillbillies'' co-star [[Buddy Ebsen]], an ardent Republican, contacted the Shuster campaign and volunteered to make a radio campaign ad in which he called Kulp "[[Liberalism|too liberal]]".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1964&dat=19841102&id=jqdUAAAAIBAJ&pg=6266,1161853 |title=Feudin' Hillbillies. Jed Clampett Opposes Miss Hathaway's House Bid |work=[[The Palm Beach Post]] |date=November 4, 1984 |access-date=December 12, 2014 }}</ref> Kulp and Ebsen had a somewhat frosty relationship on set in part because of their sharp political differences. Later, Kulp said of Ebsen, "He's not the kindly old Jed Clampett that you saw on the show ... It's none of his business and he should have stayed out of it." She said Ebsen and she "didn't get along because I found him difficult to work with. But I never would have done something like this to him." Garnering 59,449 votes—just 33.6% of the ballots cast in the election—to Shuster's 117,203 votes and 66.4%, she lost.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905E4D71039F93BA35752C1A962948260 |title=Former 'Hillbilly' Loses |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=November 8, 1984 |access-date=September 7, 2016}}</ref> After this, according to her close friends and family, Ebsen was regarded as ''[[persona non grata]]'' to Kulp and she made it clear to people not to bring him up in conversation around her with the exception of interviews related to her time on ''Hillbillies''. In his later years, especially after Kulp's death, Ebsen privately expressed remorse for doing the ad and they only reconciled shortly before Kulp's death.<ref name="The Retro Site">{{cite web | title=Nancy Kulp-Buddy Ebsen Feud - 1984 | website=The Retro Site | url=https://www.theretrosite.com/articles/nancy-kulp-buddy-ebsen-feud-1984_14.html | access-date=2019-01-05}}</ref>

After her defeat, she worked at [[Juniata College]], a private [[Liberal arts colleges in the United States|liberal arts college]] in [[Huntingdon, Pennsylvania]], as an [[artist-in-residence]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1346&dat=19851129&id=we4vAAAAIBAJ&pg=5453,6414031 |title=Kulp Goes From Miss Hathaway to Pennsylvania College Professor |work=[[The Ledger]] |location=[[Lakeland, Florida]] |publisher=[[GateHouse Media|New Media Investment Group]] |date=November 29, 1985 |access-date=September 7, 2016 }}</ref> Later she taught acting.