Pemiscot County is a county located in the southeastern corner in the Bootheel in the U.S. state of Missouri,with the Mississippi River forming its eastern border. As of the 2020 census,the population was 15,661. The largest city and county seat is Caruthersville. The county was officially organized on February 19,1851. It is named for the local bayou,taken from the word pem-eskaw,meaning "liquid mud",in the language of the native Fox (Meskwaki) people. This has been an area of cotton plantations and later other commodity crops.
Dunklin County is located in the Bootheel of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 census,the population was 28,283. The largest city and county seat is Kennett. The county was officially organized on February 14,1845,and is named in honor of Daniel Dunklin,a Governor of Missouri who died the year before the county was organized.
John Hardy Isakson was an American businessman and politician who served as a United States senator from Georgia from 2005 to 2019 as a member of the Republican Party. He represented Georgia's 6th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1999 to 2005.
Roy Dean Blunt is an American politician serving as the senior United States senator for Missouri,a seat he was first elected to in 2010. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the 33rd Missouri Secretary of State (1985–1993) and U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district (1997–2011).
The 1988 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate in which,in spite of the Republican victory by George H. W. Bush in the presidential election,the Democrats gained a net of one seat in the Senate. Seven seats changed parties,with four incumbents being defeated. The Democratic majority in the Senate increased by one to 55–to–45.
The 1986 United States Senate elections was an election for the United States Senate in the middle of Ronald Reagan's second presidential term. The Republicans had to defend an unusually large number of freshman Senate incumbents who had been elected on President Ronald Reagan's coattails in 1980. Democrats won a net of eight seats,defeating seven freshman incumbents,picking up two Republican-held open seats and regaining control of the Senate for the first time since January 1981. This remains the most recent midterm election in which the sitting president's party suffered net losses while still flipping a Senate seat.
The 1958 United States Senate elections were elections for the United States Senate which occurred in the middle of President Dwight D. Eisenhower's second term.
The 1932 United States Senate elections coincided with Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's landslide victory over incumbent Herbert Hoover in the presidential election.
The 1930 United States Senate elections occurred in the middle of Republican President Herbert Hoover's term. With the Great Depression beginning to take hold,Republican incumbents became unpopular,and Democrats picked up a net of eight seats,erasing the Republican gains from the previous election cycle. Republicans retained control of the U.S. Senate since Vice President Charles Curtis cast the tie-breaking vote. This was the first of four consecutive Senate elections during the Depression in which Democrats made enormous gains,achieving a cumulative pick-up of 34 seats.
The 1976 United States House of Representatives elections were elections for the United States House of Representatives that coincided with Jimmy Carter's election as president. Carter's narrow victory over Gerald Ford had limited coattails,and his Democratic Party gained a net of only one seat from the Republican Party in the House. The result was nevertheless disappointing to the Republicans,who were hoping to win back some of the seats they lost in the wake of the Watergate scandal two years earlier.
The 1894 United States House of Representatives elections were held from June 4,1894 to November 6,1894,with special elections throughout the year. Elections were held to elect representatives from all 356 congressional districts across each of the 44 U.S. states at the time,as well as non-voting delegates from the inhabited U.S. territories. The winners of this election served in the 54th Congress,with seats apportioned among the states based on the 1890 United States Census.
The 1882 United States House of Representatives elections were held during President Chester A. Arthur's term.
Sarah Steelman is an American Republican politician from Missouri and State Treasurer from 2005 to 2009. She is currently serving in the Office of Administration in Governor Mike Parson’s administration. She did not run for re-election as state treasurer in 2008,having run for Governor,and was succeeded in office by Democrat Clint Zweifel on January 12,2009. She was listed in a 2008 article in the New York Times as among seventeen women who may someday run for President of the United States. On November 29,2010,Steelman announced she would run for the U.S. Senate in 2012. She was defeated in the Republican primary by U.S. Representative Todd Akin.
Roscoe Conkling Patterson was an American lawyer from Missouri. He was most notable for his service as a United States representative (1921–1923) and a U.S. Senator (1929–1935).
Joseph Nestor Mondello was an American politician and diplomat who served as the United States Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago from 2018 to 2021. He previously served as Chairman of the New York Republican State Committee until September 2009 and as the chairman of the Nassau County Republican Committee from 1983 to May 24,2018.
Larry Dean Dixon was an American politician who was a Republican member of the Alabama Senate.
Jason Thomas Smith is an American businessman and politician who has been the U.S. representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district since 2013. The district comprises 30 counties,covering just under 20,000 square miles of southeastern and southern Missouri.
B. J. Marsh was an American politician from Missouri.
The 2022 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri were held on November 8,2022,to elect the eight U.S. representatives from the state of Missouri,one from each of the state's congressional districts. The elections coincided with other elections to the House of Representatives,elections to the United States Senate and various state and local elections. These was the first House of Representatives elections held in Missouri following the 2020 redistricting cycle. The associated primary elections were held on August 2,2022.
