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.
Camden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2020 Census,the population was 42,745. Its county seat is Camdenton. The county was organized on January 29,1841,as Kinderhook County and renamed Camden County in 1843 after Charles Pratt,1st Earl Camden,Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom and leader of the British Whig Party. Camden County is also the primary setting of the Netflix show Ozark.
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 State Treasurer of Missouri 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.
Isaac Newton Skelton IV was an American politician and lawyer who served as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 4th congressional district from 1977 to 2011. During his tenure,he served as the chairman of the House Armed Services Committee. He was a member of the Democratic Party. On November 2,2010,he unexpectedly lost his seat to Republican Vicky Hartzler amid a Republican landslide. Notably,he was one of three Democratic committee chairmen to lose reelection in the 2010 midterm cycle,alongside House Budget Committee chairman John Spratt of South Carolina and House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chairman Jim Oberstar of Minnesota.
Roy Dean Blunt is an American politician who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 2011 to 2023. A member of the Republican Party,he previously served as the 33rd Missouri Secretary of State (1985–1993) and U.S. Representative for Missouri's 7th congressional district (1997–2011).
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.
Ann Louise Wagner is an American politician and former diplomat serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 2nd congressional district. A member of the Republican Party,she was the United States ambassador to Luxembourg from 2005 to 2009.
William Lawrence Webster is an American lawyer,former politician and convicted felon from Missouri. He served in the Missouri House of Representatives and later as the 39th Attorney General of Missouri from 1985 to 1993. After failing to win election as governor in 1992,Webster pleaded guilty to felony embezzlement.
Harold Lee Volkmer was an American politician from Missouri. He was a Democrat who served 20 years in the United States House of Representatives.
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.
Missouri's 4th congressional district comprises west-central Missouri. It stretches from the northern half of Columbia to the southern and eastern suburbs of Kansas City,including a sliver of Kansas City in Cass County and parts of Blue Springs in Jackson County. It also includes the northern portion of Columbia,home to the University of Missouri.
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.
William Blaine Luetkemeyer is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 3rd congressional district,a seat he has held since 2009. A member of the Republican Party,Luetkemeyer formerly served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives.
The 2010 United States Senate election in Missouri took place on November 2,2010 alongside 36 other elections to the United States Senate in other states as well as elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Primary elections were held on August 3,2010. Incumbent Republican U.S. Senator Kit Bond decided to retire instead of seeking a fifth term. Republican nominee Roy Blunt won the open seat.
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.
Edward Robert Martin Jr. is an American politician and attorney from the state of Missouri. He is president of Phyllis Schlafly Eagles. Martin was terminated from his role as CNN contributor in January 2018.
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.
The 1992 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 3,1992 and resulted in a victory for the Democratic nominee,Lt. Governor Mel Carnahan,over the Republican candidate,Missouri Attorney General William L. Webster,and Libertarian Joan Dow. Carnahan had defeated St. Louis mayor Vincent C. Schoemehl for the Democratic nomination,while Webster had defeated Secretary of State Roy Blunt and Treasurer Wendell Bailey for the Republican nomination.
The 2016 Missouri State Treasurer election was held on November 8,2016,to elect the State Treasurer 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.
