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.
Robert Lee Holden Jr. is an American politician who served as the 53rd governor of Missouri from 2001 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party,he previously served as the Missouri state treasurer from 1993 to 2001 and represented the 136th district in the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989. Since leaving public office,Holden has worked at Webster University,where he founded the Holden Public Policy Forum,and serves as the president and chairman of the United States Heartland China Association.
Michael Herman Michaud is an American businessman and politician from Maine. Michaud served as the U.S. representative for Maine's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2015. He is a member of the Democratic Party. The primarily rural district comprises nearly 80% of the state by area and includes the cities of Lewiston,Auburn,Bangor,Presque Isle,and Ellsworth. It is the largest Congressional district by area east of the Mississippi River.
David Joseph Weldon is an American politician and physician. He was a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives,representing Florida's 15th congressional district,and was an unsuccessful candidate for the Republican nomination in Florida's 2012 U.S. Senate race.
Stevan Edward Pearce is an American businessman and politician who served as the U.S. representative for New Mexico's 2nd congressional district from 2003 to 2009 and from 2011 to 2019. He is a member of the Republican Party and was his party's unsuccessful nominee in the 2018 New Mexico gubernatorial election. On December 8,2018,Pearce was elected Chair of the New Mexico Republican Party,replacing Ryan Cangiolosi. He was re-elected in December 2020.
Allyson Schwartz is an American Democratic Party politician who represented parts of Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia in the United States House of Representatives from 2005 to 2015 and Northeast and Northwest Philadelphia in the Pennsylvania Senate from 1991 to 2005. She has finished second in a statewide Democratic Party primary twice:for United States Senate in 2000 and for Governor in 2014.
Cornelius Harvey McGillicuddy IV,known popularly as Connie Mack IV,is an American politician and lobbyist. He is the former U.S. Representative for Florida's 14th congressional district,serving from 2005 to 2013. A Republican,he ran for the U.S. Senate in 2012,losing to Democrat Bill Nelson. He is the son of former Republican U.S. Senator Connie Mack III and the great-grandson of baseball manager Connie Mack.
Harold Lee Volkmer was an American politician from Missouri. He was a Democrat who served 20 years in the United States House of Representatives.
Charles Graham was an American politician in the Democratic Party who represented the 19th Senate District in the Missouri General Assembly,which includes the city of Columbia,Missouri,where he lived.
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.
Jason Glennon Crowell is a former state senator from the U.S. state of Missouri who served two terms in the Missouri Senate. He succeeded then-Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder. Crowell represents Missouri's 27th Senatorial District,which consists of Bollinger,Cape Girardeau,Madison,Mississippi,Perry,and Scott counties in Southeast Missouri. He is a member of the Republican Party.
Brad Ronald Lager is a Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He is a former member of the Missouri Senate from the 12th District as well as a former member of the Missouri House of Representatives and former candidate for State Treasurer in 2008. Lager ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination for Missouri Lieutenant Governor in 2012.
Sherman Parker was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives. He was a Republican who represented part of St. Charles County for two terms. He was elected to the House in 2002 election and was re-elected in 2004 with 73% of the vote.
Bob Dixon is an American Republican politician currently serving as Presiding Commissioner of Greene County,Missouri. He formerly served in the Missouri House of Representatives and Missouri State 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.
Andre E. Cushing III is an American politician from Maine. Cushing is a Republican Currently he is one of three County Commissioners for Penobscot county,representing 20 communities in So. Penobscot's District 2. He served three termsState Senator from Maine's 10th Senate District,representing Carmel,Corinna,Corinth,Dixmont,Etna,Exeter,Hudson,Glenburn,Hampden,Kenduskeag,Levant,Newburgh,Newport,Plymouth,and Stetson Maine and his residence in Hampden.
Daniel Jay Hegeman is a former Republican member of the Missouri Senate from the 12th district,which covered parts of northwestern Missouri. He was first elected unopposed in 2014.
The 2018 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri were held on November 6,2018,to elect the eight U.S. representatives from the state of Missouri,one from each of the state's eight congressional districts.
Denny L. Hoskins is an American politician. He is a member of the Missouri Senate for the 21st District. A member of the Republican Party,he was first elected to the Senate in 2016. He previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017. He is the Republican nominee for the 2024 Missouri Secretary of State election.
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.
