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The incumbent Ashcroft was left running against a dead man after his opponent, the popular sitting governor, died in a plane crash on October 16.
Incumbent Republican Senator John Ashcroft lost re-election to a second term to Democratic Governor Mel Carnahan despite Carnahan's death in a plane crash 20 days before Election Day (due to the timing of Carnahan’s death, state law did not allow his name to be replaced on the ballot).
Ashcroft and Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan were tied in the polls when Carnahan died in a plane crash Oct. 16. At first, Ashcroft suspended his public campaign activities, then crept cautiously back...
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.
Citizens of Missouri have elected a dead man to the Senate, choosing Governor Mel Carnahan - who was killed three weeks ago in a plane crash - over Republican incumbent John Ashcroft.
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...
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.
