Missouri Gov. Mel Carnahan, running for U.S. Senate in an election that was just weeks away, was killed in a plane crash on his way to a campaign event in New Madrid, Missouri. On board ...

Jean Carnahan. Jean served Missouri proudly as First Lady of Missouri to her late husband Governor Mel Carnahan, and then as a United States Senator, and stayed active in politics following her ...

Senator John Ashcroft is faced with the difficult task of running against Mel Carnahan's widow. Senator John Ashcroft is faced with the difficult task of running against Mel Carnahan's widow.

Today, Cassie Grewing Henderson, announced she is launching Amplify GR, a full-service lobbying, monitoring and government affairs consulting firm.

Kamala Harris won’t be campaigning in Missouri in the final stages of her too-close-to-call presidential campaign against ...

He then came back and won by 20,000 votes two years later over Mel Carnahan's wife Jean Carnahan, who had assumed the seat under unusual circumstances following her husband's death (before the ...

Rowe knows something that most Americans are blissfully unaware of—that a dead man can legally be elected president should ...

University of Missouri political science professors Lana Stein and David Kimball – who witnessed a similar phenomenon in the 2000 Missouri Senate race when Democratic Senate candidate Mel Carnahan was ...

Mel Carnahan was on the ballot to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate when he was killed in a plane crash. He got more votes anyway, and his wife was appointed to fill his seat as though he had ...

It's happened before: In 2000, Mel Carnahan was running for the US Senate when he was killed in a plane crash on his way to a campaign event. He was elected posthumously and his widow, Jean ...

The clause does not define when a vacancy exists. During the 2000 election, the people of Missouri knowingly voted for the deceased Mel Carnahan. The governor declared this election to have ...