Buchanan County is located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 United States Census,the population was 84,793. Its county seat is St. Joseph. When originally formed in 1838,the county was named Roberts County,after settler Hiram Roberts. It was renamed in 1839 for James Buchanan,then a U.S. Senator and later President of the United States. The county was formed from land annexed to Missouri,as were five other counties. Buchanan County is included in the Kansas City CSA.
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.
Samuel Bruce Graves Jr. is an American politician serving as the United States representative for Missouri's 6th congressional district,serving since 2001. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district stretches across most of the northern third of the state,from the Kansas border to the Illinois border. The bulk of its population lives in the northern part of the Kansas City area,including the northern fourth of Kansas City. Graves is the dean of Missouri's congressional delegation.
Emanuel Cleaver II is a United Methodist pastor and American politician who has represented Missouri's 5th congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2005. He was previously the mayor of Kansas City,Missouri from 1991-1999.
Robert Blackwell Docking was an American businessman and politician from Kansas who served as the 38th governor of Kansas from 1967 until 1975. A conservative Democrat in a heavily Republican state,Docking is to date Kansas's only governor to serve four terms.
Ruth Harriett Woods was an American politician and activist,two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri,and the 42nd lieutenant governor of Missouri. She was the first woman elected to statewide office when she was elected Missouri's first,and so far only,woman lieutenant governor.
Waldo Porter Johnson was an American lawyer and politician who served as a Missouri state representative,as well as briefly as a U.S. Senator before being expelled for treason in 1862,then serving as a Confederate States Army officer and Confederate States Senator from Missouri from 1863 to 1865 and finally as chairman of the Missouri constitutional convention of 1875.
Charles Bertan Wheeler Jr. was an American physician and politician who served as a Missouri state senator and as mayor of Kansas City,Missouri from 1971 to 1979,in addition to having held other elected offices.
Jolie L. Justus is an American lawyer and politician from Missouri. A Democrat,she was a member of the Missouri State Senate representing the 10th Senatorial District in Kansas City,serving as the Missouri Senate Minority Leader in her final two years.
Missouri's 6th congressional district takes in a large swath of land in northern Missouri,stretching across nearly the entire width of the state from Kansas to Illinois. Its largest voting population is centered in the northern portion of the Kansas City metropolitan area and the town of St. Joseph. The district includes much of Kansas City north of the Missouri River.
The 2008 congressional elections in Missouri were held on November 4,2008,to determine who will represent the state of Missouri in the United States House of Representatives. The primary election for candidates seeking the nomination of the Republican Party,the Democratic Party,and the Libertarian Party was held on August 5.
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician and lawyer from Illinois. A U.S. Senator,he was one of two nominees of the badly split Democratic Party to run for president in the 1860 presidential election,which was won by Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln. Douglas had previously defeated Lincoln in the 1858 United States Senate election in Illinois,known for the pivotal Lincoln–Douglas debates. He was one of the brokers of the Compromise of 1850,which sought to avert a sectional crisis;to further deal with the volatile issue of extending slavery into the territories,Douglas became the foremost advocate of popular sovereignty,which held that each territory should be allowed to determine whether to permit slavery within its borders. This attempt to address the issue was rejected by both pro-slavery and anti-slavery advocates. Douglas was nicknamed the "Little Giant" because he was short in physical stature but a forceful and dominant figure in politics.
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.
Tishaura Oneda Jones is an American politician who has served as the mayor of St. Louis,Missouri since April 2021. A member of the Missouri Democratic Party,Jones served from 2008 to 2013 in the Missouri House of Representatives;and as Treasurer of the City of St. Louis from 2013 to 2021.
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.
Joe Adams is an American politician who served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives,from 2015 to 2019,succeeding Rory Ellinger. He was succeeded by Maria Chappelle-Nadal for one term,then after she stepped down,was elected again to his old seat in 2020,taking office in 2021. He is a member of the Democratic Party.
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.
The 2019 Kansas City mayoral election took place on June 18,2019,to elect the next mayor of Kansas City,Missouri. The election was held concurrently with various other local elections,and was officially nonpartisan.
The 2003 Kansas City mayoral election was held February 25 and March 31,2003 to elect the mayor of Kansas City,Missouri. It saw the reelection of incumbent mayor Kay Barnes.
Barbara Anne Washington is an American politician and attorney who currently serves as a member of the Missouri Senate from the 9th district. Elected to the Senate in 2020,she was previously a member of the Missouri House of Representatives for the 23rd district from 2018 to 2021.
