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.
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.
Matthew Roy Blunt is an American politician and former naval officer who served as the 54th governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. He previously served ten years in the United States Navy and as Missouri secretary of state,a position in which he oversaw elections and ballot initiatives in the state.
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.
The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 163 members,representing districts with an average size of 37,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.
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.
Steven Tilley is a former Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives. He represented District 106 in the Missouri House of Representatives. A Republican,Tilley was elected to the House in November 2004. He became the Majority leader in January 2008. On August 13,2012 Tilley resigned from the Missouri House of Representatives.
Neal Evans Boyd was an American singer who developed an interest in opera after listening to the performances of the Three Tenors. Despite being raised in conditions of poverty within the U.S. state of Missouri,he achieved a degree in music and eventually entered the third season of America's Got Talent,winning that year's competition. In addition to music,he also became involved in politics and conducted performances at many state-wide events across Missouri.
Ronald Francis Richard was 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 was the first speaker to later be elected Missouri senator in more than 100 years and became 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 after winning election for President Pro Tem of the Missouri Senate. Richard represented the 32nd Senatorial District.
Rodney Newell Searle Sr. was a Minnesota farmer,insurance agent,and public servant. Born and raised in urban New Jersey,Searle moved to rural Minnesota in 1947 with his wife Jane and their two young children. With no prior experience in agriculture,they moved to a farm,and soon were raising crops and livestock. He also became heavily involved in community activities.
Rodney W. "Rod" Hamilton is a Minnesota politician and former member of the Minnesota House of Representatives. A member of the Republican Party of Minnesota,he represented District 22B,which includes all or portions of Cottonwood,Jackson,Nobles and Redwood counties in the southwestern part of the state. He is also a local pork producer.
Hypsibema missouriensis is a species of plant-eating dinosaur in the genus Hypsibema,and the state dinosaur of the U.S. state Missouri. One of the few official state dinosaurs,bones of the species were discovered in 1942,at what later became known as the Chronister Dinosaur Site near Glen Allen,Missouri. The remains of Hypsibema missouriensis at the site,which marked the first known discovery of dinosaur remains in Missouri,are the only ones to have ever been found. Although first thought to be a sauropod,later study determined that it was a hadrosaur,or "duck-billed" dinosaur,whose snouts bear likeness to ducks' bills. Some of the species' bones found at the Chronister Dinosaur Site are housed in Washington,D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution.
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.
Howard Elliott was an American lawyer and Republican politician from Missouri.
David Barklage is a Republican political consultant from Missouri. He is President of The Barklage Company.
Karla May is an American politician who has served in the Missouri Senate since January 2019. She previously served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2011. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected in 2010. Having served the maximum allowable term in the state house,in 2018 she announced her intention to run for election to the Missouri State Senate.
Dean Plocher is an American politician who has served in the Missouri House of Representatives from the 89th district since 2016. He was elected speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives on January 4,2023.
Steven Roberts is a Democratic politician serving in the 5th district of the Missouri Senate. Roberts' election on January 6,2021,made him the youngest black State Senator in Missouri history. He serves as the Minority Whip of the Missouri Senate.
John Simmons is an American politician and chiropractor serving as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from the 109th district. Elected in November 2018,he assumed office in January 2019.
The Chronister Dinosaur Site is a fossil site within the McNairy Sand Member of the Ripley Formation,Missouri. Dinosaur fossils are among the known remains from the Chronister Dinosaur Site,most of which are housed in Washington,D.C.'s Smithsonian Institution.
