Mel Carnahan

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Person.png Mel Carnahan   C-SPANRdf-entity.pngRdf-icon.png
(politician)
Mel Carnahan.jpg
DiedOctober 2000 (Age 66)
Cause of death
plane crash
NationalityUS
Alma materGeorge Washington University, University of Missouri (JD)
Victim ofpremature death
PartyDemocrat
A US politician who died in a small plane crash in 2000.

Employment.png Governor of Missouri

In office
January 11, 1993 - October 16, 2000
Preceded byJohn Ashcroft

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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