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Nov 8, 2000 · Wed 8 Nov 2000 09.48 EST. The voters of Missouri have elected Governor Mel Carnahan to the US Senate - three weeks after he perished in a plane crash. The late governor, a Democrat, scored a narrow...
Nov 6, 2000 · If Ashcroft is known as the first Senate candidate ever to lose to a dead person, Warren said, it won't be a negative association. "Ashcroft had an impossible job," he said.
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TIL in 2000, incumbent John Ashcroft lost to a dead man in the election for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat. I voted for the dead man, Mel Carnahan. He died in a plane crash only a week or two before the election, too late to get new ballots printed or a new person on the ballot.
JEFFERSON CITY - Missourians handed John Ashcroft a dubious historical distinction Tuesday, making him the first senator ever to be defeated by a dead man. Late governor Mel Carnahan, riding an eleventh-hour surge of St. Louis city votes, led Ashcroft 50-49 percent with 86 percent of precincts reporting.
Dec 22, 2000 · Politics. Defeated Senator Gets New Life. December 22, 2000 / 12:21 PM EST / AP. For more than two decades John Ashcroft was one of Missouri's biggest vote-getters, winning office as state...
Dec 22, 2000 · Dec. 22, 2000. AUSTIN, Texas -- President-elect Bush nominated defeated Missouri Sen. John Ashcroft to be attorney general on Friday, choosing a conservative Republican who lost his...
May 20, 2007 · Ashcroft was a failed presidential candidate and a Missouri senator who had just lost reelection to a dead man when Bush picked him to become attorney general in 2001.
