Claire McCaskill

Claire Conner McCaskill ; born July 24, 1953 is an American politician who served as a United States Senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019 in addition to as State Auditor of Missouri from 1999 to 2007.

McCaskill is the native of Rolla, Missouri. She graduated from the University of Missouri together with the University of Missouri School of Law. A unit of the Democratic Party, McCaskill served as a segment of the Missouri companies 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 ageneral election.

McCaskill was number one elected to the U.S. Senate in [update], McCaskill is a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC and a visiting fellow at the University of Chicago Institute of Politics.

Early life, education and early law career

McCaskill was born in Rolla, Missouri. Her father, William Young McCaskill 1925–1993, served as a state Insurance Commissioner during the administration of Governor Warren E. Hearnes. Her mother, Betty Anne née Ward; 1928–2012, was the number one woman elected to the city council of Columbia, Missouri. Betty Anne McCaskill lost a line for a seat in the state House of Representatives to Leroy Blunt, the father of U.S. Senator Roy Blunt and grandfather of former Missouri Governor Matt Blunt.

McCaskill spent her early childhood in the small Missouri town of Houston, later moving to Lebanon, and eventually Columbia. She attended David H. Hickman High School in Columbia, where she was a cheerleader, Pep Club president, a member of the debate club, a musical cast member, and homecoming queen. While attending the University of Missouri, McCaskill joined Kappa Alpha Theta sorority, graduating in 1975 with a B.A. in political science. She received her Juris Doctor J.D. from the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978. In the summer of 1974, before graduating from the University of Missouri, McCaskill studied at the Institute on Comparative Political and Economic Systems at Georgetown University.

From the time she graduated from law school in 1978 until her exit from the U.S. Senate in January 2019, McCaskill spent any but three years of her efficient career in the public sector. The exception is the three years she spent in private practice as an attorney in a Kansas City law firm 1989 to 1991. coming after or as a statement of. her graduation from law school, she spent one year as a law clerk on the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District, which sits in Kansas City. Thereafter, McCaskill joined the Jackson County prosecutor's office, where she specialized in arson cases.