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Carnahan, Jean, 1933-2024

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Personal name headingCarnahan, Jean, 1933-2024
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Variant(s)Carnahan, Jean
Birth date1933-12-20
Death date2024-01-30
Place of birthWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationGeorge Washington University
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislators
Found inHer If walls could talk, 1998: t.p. (Jean Carnahan; first lady of the state of Missouri) p. 365 (Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan; m. to Missouri Governor Melvin Eugene Carnahan)
Carnahan, Jean. Don't let the fire go out!, 2004: ECIP data view (b. 1933)
Bio. dir. of the U.S. Congress website, Sept. 16, 2013 (Carnahan, Jean, (daughter-in-law of Albert S. J. Carnahan; mother of Russ Carnahan), a Senator from Missouri; born in Washington, D.C., on December 20, 1933; graduated George Washington University 1955, with BA in business and public administration; writer and Democratic party activist; First Lady of Missouri 1993-2000; appointed to the United States Senate, effective January 3, 2001, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, Governor Mel Carnahan, who was elected posthumously on November 7, 2000; served from January 3, 2001, to November 25, 2002, when an elected successor for the remainder of the term took office; unsuccessful candidate for election to remainder of the term in 2002)
Washington Post obituaries, viewed February 5, 2024: Jean Carnahan, U.S. senator who succeeded husband, dies at 90 (Former U.S. senator Jean Carnahan, who became the first female senator to represent Missouri after she was appointed to replace her husband following his death in a plane crash, died Jan. 30 at a hospice center in suburban St. Louis. She was 90)
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