John David Ashcroft is an American lawyer,lobbyist,and former politician who served as the United States Attorney General in the George W. Bush administration from 2001 to 2005. He previously held various positions in Missouri politics;as Auditor of Missouri (1973–1975),Attorney General of Missouri (1976–1985),Governor of Missouri (1985–1993),and as a United States Senator representing Missouri (1995–2001). He later founded The Ashcroft Group,a Washington D.C. lobbying firm.
Melvin Eugene Carnahan was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in 2000. Carnahan was a Democrat and held various positions in government.
Jean Anne Carnahan was an American politician and writer who was the First Lady of Missouri from 1993 to 2000,and served as the state's junior United States senator from 2001 to 2002. A Democrat,she was appointed to fill the Senate seat of her husband Mel Carnahan,who had been posthumously elected after his death in October,becoming the first woman to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate.
Roger Byron Wilson is an American politician who served as the 44th lieutenant governor of Missouri from January 1993 to October 2000 and as the 52nd governor of Missouri from October 2000 to January 2001. Wilson was serving his second four-year term as lieutenant governor and was preparing to retire from elected public service when Governor Mel Carnahan died in a plane crash on October 16,2000. Wilson first became acting governor and was sworn in as governor when Carnahan’s death was confirmed.
Albert Sidney Johnson Carnahan was an American educator,diplomat and Democratic Party politician who represented southeastern Missouri in the United States House of Representatives for fourteen years between 1945 and 1961. He was the patriarch of the Carnahan family,a prominent political family in Missouri into the 21st century. He began his career as a teacher and school administrator.
John Russell Carnahan is an American politician from the state of Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party,he served as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district from 2005 to 2013.
Robin Colleen Carnahan is an American businesswoman,lawyer,and politician,who previously served as the Missouri Secretary of State and currently serves as the Administrator of General Services in the Biden administration. She is the daughter of Missouri politicians Mel and Jean Carnahan. In 2010,she was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate to replace retiring Republican Senator Kit Bond. She was then a senior advisor at the global strategy firm Albright Stonebridge Group. In 2013,Carnahan was named a fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics. In February 2016,she joined the General Services Administration as the director of the state and local practice at 18F,a role she held until January 2020. She then became a fellow at the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation at Georgetown University.
The 2006 United States Senate election in Missouri was held November 7,2006,to decide who would serve as senator for Missouri between January 3,2007,and January 3,2013. This election was the fifth consecutive even-number year in which a senate election was held in Missouri after elections in 1998,2000,2002,and 2004.
Peter Dickson Kinder is an American lawyer and politician who served as the 46th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2017. He was appointed as a co-chairman of the Delta Regional Authority in August 2017,serving in that post until he resigned in June 2018.
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.
Judith K. Moriarty is an American politician from Missouri. She was the first woman to serve as Missouri Secretary of State. She was impeached in 1994 for conduct issues,and forced from office. She was a member of the Democratic Party,until 2005,switching to the Libertarian Party.
Catherine Lucille Hanaway is an American attorney,former federal prosecutor and Republican candidate for Missouri Governor who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri from 2005 to 2009,and as the first and only female Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2003 to 2005.
Margaret Blake Kelly is an American former politician and accountant from Missouri.
Missouri's 8th congressional district is one of 435 congressional districts in the United States and one of eight congressional districts in the state of Missouri. The district encompasses rural Southeast Missouri and South Central Missouri as well as some counties in Southwest Missouri. The district stretches from the Bootheel in the south to the St. Louis southern exurbs of Festus,Hillsboro,and surrounding areas in the Lead Belt;it ranges in the east to counties along the Mississippi River and in the west to counties along the Ozark Plateau near Branson. With a Cook Partisan Voting Index rating of R+28,it is the most Republican district in Missouri.
The 2000 United States Senate election in Missouri was held on November 7,2000,to select the next U.S. Senator from Missouri. Incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft ran for reelection to a second term,but he was defeated by Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan despite Carnahan's death in a plane crash three weeks before election day. Roger Wilson,the newly inaugurated governor,appointed Mel Carnahan's widow Jean Carnahan to fill the seat pending a 2002 special election. As of 2024,this is the only time a deceased person has won a U.S. Senate election.
The 2002 United States Special Senate election in Missouri was held on November 5,2002 to decide who would serve the rest of Democrat Mel Carnahan's term,after he died while campaigning and posthumously won the 2000 election. The winner would serve the remainder of the term ending in 2007. Governor Roger Wilson appointed Carnahan's wife Jean,also a Democrat,to serve temporarily. She then decided to run to serve the remainder of the term,but she was narrowly defeated by Republican nominee Jim Talent.
Richard Hanson served as secretary of state of Missouri in 1994 following the removal from office of his predecessor,Judith Moriarty.
The 2004 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was an election for the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri,held on November 4,2008. Republican Peter Kinder won the election narrowly,becoming the first Republican to hold the office since Edward Henry Winter in 1933.
Elections were held on November 2,2010,to determine Missouri's nine members of the United States House of Representatives. Representatives were elected for two-year terms to serve in the 112th Congress from January 3,2011,until January 3,2013. Primary elections were held on August 3,2010.
A special election for Missouri's 8th congressional district was held on June 4,2013,following the resignation of Jo Ann Emerson on January 22,2013,to head the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association. The Republican and Democratic parties selected their own nominees without a primary.
