Claire McCaskill

Claire McCaskill
Official portrait, 2012
United States Senator
from Missouri
In office
January 3, 2007 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byJim Talent
Succeeded byJosh Hawley
Ranking Member of the
Senate Homeland Security Committee
In office
January 3, 2017 – January 3, 2019
Preceded byTom Carper
Succeeded byGary Peters
34th Auditor of Missouri
In office
January 3, 1999 – January 3, 2007
GovernorMel Carnahan
Roger Wilson
Bob Holden
Matt Blunt
Preceded byMargaret Kelly
Succeeded bySusan Montee
Prosecutor of Jackson County
In office
1993–1998
Preceded byAlbert Riederer
Succeeded byRobert Beaird
Member of the Missouri House of Representatives
from the 42nd district
In office
January 5, 1983 – February 2, 1988
Preceded byJames Barnes
Succeeded byJoseph Kenton
Personal details
Born
Claire Conner McCaskill

(1953-07-24) July 24, 1953 (age 70)
Rolla, Missouri, U.S.
Political partyDemocratic
Spouses
David Exposito
(m. 1984; div. 1995)
Joseph Shepard
(m. 2002)
Children3
EducationUniversity of Missouri
(BA, JD)

Claire Conner McCaskill (/məˈkæskəl/; born July 24, 1953) is an American former politician who served as a United States senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019 and as State 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 elected to the U.S. Senate in 2006, the first woman to be elected U.S. senator 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.[1] 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.[2][3]

  1. ^ Robillard, Kevin (November 6, 2018). "Josh Hawley Tops Democratic Senator Claire McCaskill In Missouri". Yahoo! News. HuffPost.
  2. ^ "Current Pritzker Fellows". University of Chicago Institute of Politics. February 7, 2019. Archived from the original on February 9, 2019. Retrieved February 7, 2019.
  3. ^ "Former Sen. Claire McCaskill to join NBC, MSNBC as political analyst". KSHB. January 15, 2019. Retrieved March 8, 2021.