Mel Carnahan
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 Mel Carnahan     (politician) | ||||||||||||
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| Died | October 2000 (Age 66) | |||||||||||
Cause of death | plane crash | |||||||||||
| Nationality | US | |||||||||||
| Alma mater | George Washington University, University of Missouri (JD) | |||||||||||
| Victim of | premature death | |||||||||||
| Party | Democrat | |||||||||||
A US politician who died in a small plane crash in 2000.
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Mel Carnahan was posthumously reported in the New York Times as having had a "reputation for being clean and on the level."[1]
Death
In 2000, Carnahan ran in the election against Incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft for United States Senator.
Carnahan was killed in a small plane crash.[2]
Despite his death, Carnahan won by a margin of approximately fifty thousand votes. He was the first person ever posthumously elected to the United States Senate.
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