The government of the U.S. state of Missouri is organized into the state government and local government,including county government,and city and municipal government.
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.
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.
Maida Coleman is a Democratic politician from Missouri. Coleman was first elected to public office in 2000,when she was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives from the 63rd district. In 2002,Coleman won a special election to the Missouri Senate,representing the 5th district. Coleman represented the 5th district in the Missouri Senate until 2009,and from 2004 to 2008 she served as the minority leader. She was the first African American woman to serve as Senate Minority Leader in the Missouri Senate. Coleman has served on the Missouri Public Service Commission since she was appointed to the commission in 2015.
Victor Callahan was a Democratic member of the Missouri Senate,representing the 11th District from 2003 to 2013.
Scott T. Rupp is a former Republican member of the Missouri Senate,representing the 2nd District from 2006 to 2014. Previously he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2002 through 2006. In the Missouri Senate,Rupp represented all of Lincoln County and portions of St. Charles County. Elected to the Missouri Senate in a special election in April 2006,Scott was re-elected in November 2006 to serve his first full term. He was re-elected in November 2010 to his second full term in the Missouri Senate. Previously,he was twice elected to represent the citizens of northwest St. Charles County in the Missouri House of Representatives and received more than 65 percent of the vote in 2002 and 2004. In 2014 Rupp could not run for re-election due to term limits. In April 2014 he retired early to take a position on the Missouri Public Service Commission.
Maria Nicole Chappelle-Nadal is an American politician who served in the Missouri House of Representatives from the 86th district from 2019 to 2021. A Democrat from University City,Missouri,she represented district 14 in the Missouri Senate from 2011 to 2019. She previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives from district 72,a position which she held from 2005 to 2011. In 2010,Chappelle-Nadal was elected to the Missouri Senate to succeed fellow Democrat Rita Heard Days of St. Louis.
Mike Colona is an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 2009 to 2017. Before redistricting,Colona represented the 67th district. Colona more recently represented the 80th district,which is centered on the Tower Grove South area within the city of St. Louis. Colona also served as the House minority whip for the 96th General Assembly.
James H. Britton was the 23rd mayor of St. Louis,Missouri.
Donald Calloway is an American attorney and politician from St. Louis,Missouri. He was a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 71st District in St. Louis County.
Joel Bennett Clark,better known as Bennett Champ Clark,was a Democratic United States senator from Missouri from 1933 until 1945,and was later a circuit judge of the District of Columbia Circuit. He was a leading isolationist in foreign policy. In domestic policy he was an anti-New Deal Conservative Democrat who helped organize the bipartisan Conservative coalition.
The 2012 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 6,2012. Incumbent Republican Peter Kinder faced Democratic nominee and former state auditor Susan Montee,Libertarian Matthew Copple,and the Constitution Party nominee,former state representative Cynthia Davis.
Jeanie Riddle is an American politician from Missouri. A Republican,she served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 49th District in Callaway County and as a member of the Missouri Senate from the 10th District which includes the counties of Audrain,Callaway,Lincoln,Monroe,Montgomery and Warren.
The 2012 United States House of Representatives elections in Missouri were held specifically on Tuesday,November 6,2012,and elected the eight U.S. representatives from the state of Missouri,a loss of one seat following the 2010 United States census. The elections coincided with the elections of other federal and state offices,including a federal quadrennial presidential election,concurrent statewide gubernatorial election,quadrennial statewide lieutenant gubernatorial election,and an election to the U.S. Senate.
Jill Schupp is an American politician and a former Democratic member of the Missouri Senate,representing the 24th district consisting of the western suburbs of St. Louis from 2015 to 2023. Previously,Schupp represented the 88th district in the Missouri House of Representatives.
The 2016 Missouri Attorney General election was held on November 8,2016,to elect the Attorney General of Missouri,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Republican Josh Hawley defeated the Democratic nominee Teresa Hensley.
The 2016 Missouri Secretary of State election was held on November 8,2016,to elect the Missouri Secretary of State,concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election,as well as elections to the United States Senate and those to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections.
The 2018 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 6,2018,to elect a member of the United States Senate to represent the State of Missouri,concurrently with other elections to the United States Senate,elections to the United States House of Representatives,and various state and local elections,including Missouri's quadrennial State Auditor election.
Robert Frank Onder Jr. is an American politician and physician from the state of Missouri. He is the member-elect for the United States House of Representatives in Missouri's 3rd congressional district.
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.
