Ted Daughety

Ted W. Daughety (born July 19, 1949) is a retired American pulmonologist-immunologist specialized in sleeping and breathing disorders. He was the first gentleman of Kansas as the spouse of Governor Laura Kelly from January 2019 until their divorce in October 2024.

Education Daughety graduated from Baylor University. He earned a M.D. from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and completed a residency at the Medical University of South Carolina. On February 1, 2019, Daughety closed his outreach clinic at Neman Regional Health and resigned as the sleep disorder center medical director. He had retired as a pulmonologist in April 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic in Kansas, he resumed work at a screening clinic. They married in 1983.