Melvin Eugene Carnahan was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. A Democrat,he was elected posthumously to the U.S. Senate;his widow,Jean,served in his stead for two years until a special election.
Edwin Denison Morgan was the 21st governor of New York from 1859 to 1862 and served in the United States Senate from 1863 to 1869. He was the first and longest-serving chairman of the Republican National Committee. He was also a Union Army general during the American Civil War.
Francis Marion Cockrell was a Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States senator from Missouri for five terms. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family of Southern politicians.
Royal Samuel Copeland,a United States Senator from New York from 1923 until 1938,was an academic,homeopathic physician,and politician. He held elected offices in both Michigan and New York.
William Warner was an American lawyer and politician based in Kansas City,Missouri. He became mayor of Kansas City in 1871,serving a one year term. He later represented Missouri in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate.
James Alexander Reed was an American Democratic Party politician from Missouri.
Matt Bartle is a Republican politician from Missouri. He was born in Columbia,Missouri.
Luann Ridgeway is an attorney who served in several elected government offices. A Republican,she served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives elected in 1992 and serving through 2002 and Missouri Senate elected in 2004 and serving through 2012. Ridgeway served as the Eastern District Commissioner of Clay County,Missouri,elected 2012 through 2020. She announced she would not run for reelection in 2020 and returned to private life in 2021.
Gary Nodler is a Missouri politician who served as a Republican in the Missouri State Senate,where he chaired the Senate Appropriations Committee. He is a resident of Joplin,Missouri,married to the former Joncee Edwards with one son,Justin and one granddaughter Rachel.
Thomas Dwayne Dempsey is an American restaurateur and former Republican politician,previously serving in the Missouri Senate as President Pro Tempore. Dempsey is now a partner at the Gate Way Group,a multi-state government relations firm based in St. Louis.
Martin T. Rucker is a former a Democratic member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
Robert Thompson Van Horn was an American lawyer,the owner and publisher of The Kansas City Enterprise,the 6th mayor of Kansas City,Missouri during parts of the Civil War,a member of the Missouri General Assembly,and a representative of Missouri's 5th,6th,and 8th congressional districts.
Jon Lundberg is an American politician and a Republican member of the Tennessee State Senate for the 4th district. He was first elected to the 105th Tennessee General Assembly (2007–2008). He serves as deputy speaker of the Senate and first vice chairman of the Education Committee,a member of the Finance and Judiciary Committee. In the House,he was chairman of the Civil Justice Committee,the Commerce Subcommittee,a member of the Civil Justice Subcommittee,a member of the Insurance and Banking Committee,and a member of the Calendar and Rules Committee. He also served in leadership as the Republican floor leader.
Ronald F. Richard is an American politician from the state of Missouri. A Republican,Richard served in the Missouri House of Representatives,including as Speaker of the House before being elected to the State Senate in 2010. He is the first speaker to later be elected Missouri senator in more than 100 years,the first in Missouri's history to serve as top leader in both houses of his state's legislature,and the fifth person in United States history to do such. Richard represented the 32nd Senatorial District.
Joseph Keaveny is an American attorney,banker,and politician who served as a member of the Missouri Senate for the 4th district from 2009 to 2016. After leaving the Senate,he was appointed to serve as Administrative Law Judge of the Missouri Department of Labor.
Mike Kehoe is an American politician. A Republican,he serves as the 48th lieutenant governor of Missouri,having been in office since June 18,2018. Kehoe previously served in the Missouri Senate,representing the state's 6th senatorial district. On June 18,2018,Governor Mike Parson appointed Kehoe as Missouri's lieutenant governor. Both Parson and Kehoe were elected to a full term in 2020.
Charles W. Shields is a former Republican member of the Missouri Senate,representing the 34th District from 2002 until 2010. He last served as the President Pro Tem. Previously he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1991 until 2002.
Scott Thomas Wilk Sr. is an American politician who has served as the California State Senate minority leader since January 20,2021. He is a Republican representing the 21st district,encompassing Antelope Valley,Victor Valley,and most of the Santa Clarita Valley. Prior to his election to the Senate,he served two terms in the California State Assembly. He was also a College of the Canyons Trustee.
John Morgan McGarvey is an American attorney and politician serving as a Democratic member of the Kentucky Senate,where he represents the 19th district. In December 2018,he was elected as minority leader,becoming one of the youngest members of a general assembly in the nation to serve in a leadership role. He is the Democratic nominee for Kentucky's 3rd congressional district in the 2022 United States House of Representatives elections.
Lincoln Hough is an American politician. He was first elected to the Missouri House of Representatives in 2010,where he served three terms. He served as Greene County Commissioner from 2016 to 2018. In November 2018,he was elected to represent the 30th District,which includes the City of Springfield in Greene County,in the Missouri Senate.
