Claire McCaskill
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Claire Conner McCaskill (born July 24, 1953) is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019 and the Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007. McCaskill is a native of Rolla, Missouri.
She graduated from the University of Missouri and the University of Missouri School of Law.
A member of the Democratic Party, McCaskill served as a member of the Missouri House of Representatives from 1983 to 1989, as Jackson County Prosecutor from 1993 to 1998, and as the 34th State Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007.
She ran for Governor of Missouri in the 2004 election, defeating Democratic incumbent Bob Holden in the Democratic primary and losing to Republican Matt Blunt in a close general election. McCaskill was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006.
She was the second female U.S. Senator from Missouri and the first female candidate to be elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri (Jean Carnahan was appointed upon the death of her husband).
Re-elected in 2012, McCaskill was defeated in 2018 by Republican challenger Josh Hawley.
As of February 2019, McCaskill is a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC and a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.
Personal life
McCaskill was married to David Exposito, with whom she had three children. The couple divorced in 1995, after 11 years of marriage, while McCaskill was Jackson County Prosecutor. David Exposito was found murdered in Kansas City, Kansas on December 12, 2005. Exposito's murder has never been solved.
McCaskill married Joseph Shepard in 2002.
On the October 3, 2009, episode of Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! on National Public Radio, McCaskill spoke about a vacation early in her career as a lawyer, where she was a contestant on High Rollers. McCaskill reigned as champion for four days, and later sold several of her prizes to pay off her student loan debt.
McCaskill's mother, Betty Anne McCaskill, died on October 29, 2012, from natural causes at the age of 84. A convert to Roman Catholicism, McCaskill was denied communion for her pro-choice stance on abortion by then-Bishop Raymond Burke, later Cardinal Raymond Burke.
McCaskill maintains residences in Washington, D.C. and Kirkwood, a suburb of St. Louis. She joined Sheryl Sandberg's movement to encourage young women to be more assertive in professional interactions. On February 22, 2016, McCaskill announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She stated through Tumblr, "It's a little scary, but my prognosis is good and I expect a full recovery."
Early life, education, and early law careers are all involved.
McCaskill was born in Rolla, Missouri. During Governor Warren E. Hearnes' reign, William Young McCaskill (1925–1993) served as a state Insurance Commissioner. Betty Anne (née Ward) (1928–2012), her mother, was the first woman elected to the city council of Columbia, Missouri. Betty Anne McCaskill of Kentucky failed in the Democratic primaries for a seat in the state House of Representatives to Leroy Blunt, the father of the United States. Senator Roy Blunt and his grandfather, former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt, have been visiting the University of Missouri for the past two decades.
McCaskill spent her youth in Houston, Missouri, before heading to Lebanon and eventually Columbia. She attended David H. Hickman High School in Columbia, where she served as a cheerleader, Pep Club president, a member of the debate club, and the homecoming queen. McCaskill earned a B.A. while attending the University of Missouri, joining Kappa Alpha Theta sorority in 1975. Political science has a special interest. (J.D.) She was named Juris Doctor, which is a form of proof of her Juis Doctorate (J.D.) In 1978, the University of Missouri School of Law graduated. McCaskill spent time at the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University in the summer of 1974, before graduating from the University of Missouri.
McCaskill spent only three years in public service from the time she began law school in 1978 to her resignation from the U.S. Senate in January 2019. The exception is three years she spent in private practice as an attorney in a Kansas City law firm (1989 to 1991). She spent one year as a law clerk on the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District, which is located in Kansas City, following her graduation from law school. McCaskill later joined the Jackson County prosecutor's office, where she specialized in arson cases.
Early political career
McCaskill was elected to represent the Brookside neighborhood of Kansas City in the Missouri House of Representatives in 1982. In 1988, she left the state House and considered a bid for Jackson County Prosecutor, but decided not to pursue the position until her mentor, fellow Democrat and incumbent Prosecutor Albert Riederer decided to seek another term.
McCaskill was elected to the Jackson County Legislature in 1990 (the equivalent of a county commission or county council).
In February 1991, she testified in favor of a Missouri Senate bill that would prohibit a man accused of raping his wife from using marriage as a defense. "This is simply a question of fundamental justice." McCaskill said, "it's sad that we live in a state where rape your wife is allowed."
McCaskill declared her intention to run for county prosecutor in December 1991. Riederer had not confirmed that he would run for reelection at the time of the announcement. During McCaskill's eleven years as county prosecutor, he said the crime had "gone amok." McCaskill won the Democratic primary and went on to win the 1992 general election with 51% of the vote. McCaskill was the first woman to serve as Prosecutors for Jackson County. She was reelected in 1996 with 71% of the vote.
McCaskill was elected as the state auditor with 50.3 percent of the vote in 1998. Margaret B. Kelly, her immediate predecessor, was the second female to hold the office, with the first female to hold the position.
Al Hanson, the Republican primary winner who had previously been jailed for fraud, was reelection in 2002. Hanson claimed he was able to detect fraud because he had committed fraud himself. The Missouri Republican Party's leader warned citizens not to vote for Hanson in the general election due to Hanson's history. McCaskill was reelected with 60 percent of the popular vote.
McCaskill defeated incumbent Governor Bob Holden in the Democratic primary on August 3, 2004, becoming the first candidate to overthrowrown an incumbent governor in a primary election in state history.
McCaskill lost by 51% to 48 percent in the general election on November 2, 2004, defeating then-Secretary of State Matt Blunt. McCaskill's defeat to Blunt was the first defeat in her 20-year political career.
Career after public office
McCaskill became a political analyst for NBC News and MSNBC on January 15, 2019. On Deadline: White House and Morning Joe, McCaskill is a regular guest. She also appears on The Last Word With Lawrence O'Donnell and The 11th Hour with Brian Williams, MSNBC, and NBC News Special Event Breaking News Coverage.
McCaskill was reportedly selected for an ambassadorship in Europe under Joe Biden's administration in May 2021.
McCaskill joined Issue One's Responsible Social Media Initiative in October 2022 to address the negative effects of social media in the United States, co-chaired by former House Democratic Caucus Leader Dick Gephardt and former Massachusetts Lieutenant Governor Kerry Healey.