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Missouri Governor DILFs

Mike Parson, Bob Holden, Warren E. Hearnes, Christopher Bond, Forrest Smith, Eric Greitens, Forrest C. Donnell, Lloyd C. Stark, Guy Brasfield Park, John Ashcroft, John M. Dalton, Matt Blunt, Mel Carnahan, Jay Nixon, Phil M. Donnelly, Roger B. Wilson, Joseph P. Teasdale, James T. Blair Jr.

Governor Blair with Truman in the last pic.

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He Died in a Plane Crash While Running for Senate. Three Weeks Later, Missouri Elected Him Anyway

Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan was killed in a plane crash weeks before Election Day — and still won a seat in the U.S. Senate. Inside his stunn

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Jean Carnahan, Missouri’s first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate, dies at 90

Carnahan was appointed a senator after her husband, former Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, was elected posthumously.

Jo Mannies at St. Louis Public Radio:

Former Missouri U.S. Sen. Jean Carnahan, who was the state’s first woman to serve in the Senate and the widow of Gov. Mel Carnahan, died Tuesday. She was 90. "Mom passed peacefully after a long and rich life. She was a fearless trailblazer. She was brilliant, creative, compassionate and dedicated to her family and her fellow Missourians,” her family said in a statement. Carnahan sought to be a conciliatory figure, lamenting in late 2000 the political divisiveness that already was rising around the country. Before heading to Washington, she observed in an interview that “the whole idea of duking it out in the public arena and seeing who’s the last person standing – that atmosphere is what has brought us the problems we have now.” Carnahan was the matriarch of one of Missouri’s best-known Democratic families. A son, Russ Carnahan, was a member of the U.S. House and currently heads the Missouri Democratic Party. Her daughter, Robin Carnahan, served eight years as Missouri secretary of state and is now administrator of the General Services Administration in Washington.

Jean Carnahan resided largely in Clayton after being defeated in a 2002 bid to serve the final four years of her late husband’s Senate term. She wrote a number ofbooks. Carnahan was thrust into the national spotlight on Oct. 16, 2000, when then-Gov. Mel Carnahan was killed in a small plane crash in Jefferson County while campaigning for the Senate seat held by Republican John Ashcroft. The plane’s pilot was the Carnahans’ eldest son, Randy. Also on board was the governor’s top aide, Chris Sifford. Both died in the crash. Gov. Roger Wilson, who was the state's lieutenant governor until he was sworn in as governor after the crash, announced a few days later that he would appoint Jean Carnahan to her late husband’s Senate post should he win posthumously. By law, Mel Carnahan’s name remained on the ballot.

RIP Jean Carnahan.