Jean Carnahan
Jean Anne Carnahan (née
Carpenter; December 20, 1933 – January 30, 2024) was an American politician and writer who was the
First Lady of Missouri from 1993 to 2000, and served as the state's
junior United States senator from 2001 to 2002. A
Democrat, she was appointed to fill the Senate seat of her husband
Mel Carnahan, who had been posthumously elected after his death in October, becoming the first woman to represent Missouri in the U.S. Senate.
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