Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
United States Senator
from Missouri
Incumbent
Assumed office
January 3, 2007
Serving with Kit Bond
Preceded by
James Talent
34th State Auditor of Missouri
In office
1999 – 2007
Governor
Mel Carnahan (1999-2000)
Roger B. Wilson (2000-2001)
Bob Holden (2001-2005)
Matt Blunt (2005-2007)
Preceded by
Margaret B. Kelly
Succeeded by Susan Montee
Born
July 24, 1953 (1953-07-24)
Rolla, Missouri, USA
Political party Democratic
Spouse
David Exposito (div.)
Joseph Shepard
Children
Austin
Maddie
Lily
Residence
St. Louis, Missouri
Alma mater
University of Missouri Law
School (J.D.)
University of Missouri (B.A.)
Profession
Attorney
Religion
Roman Catholic
Claire Conner McCaskill (born July 24,
1953) is an American Democratic politician,
currently the junior United States Senator
from the state of Missouri and former State
Auditor of Missouri. She defeated Republican
Senator Jim Talent in 2006 by a margin of
50% to 47%. She is the first female senator
from Missouri elected in her own right. She
was cited by the New York Times to be
among the seventeen women most likely to
become the first female President of the Un-
ited States.[1] She will become the state’s
senior senator upon the retirement of Mis-
souri’s senior U.S. Senator, Kit Bond, in
2011.
Biography
McCaskill was born
in Rolla, Missouri.
McCaskill’s
father, William Y. McCaskill,
served as a state Insurance Commissioner
during the administration of Governor War-
ren E. Hearnes. Her mother Betty Anne was
the first woman elected to the City Council of
Columbia, Missouri. Interestingly, Betty Anne
McCaskill lost a race for a seat in the state
House of Representatives to Leroy Blunt,
Governor
Matt
Blunt’s
grandfather.
McCaskill spent her early childhood in the
small Missouri town of Houston, later moving
to Lebanon,
and eventually Columbia.
McCaskill attended David H. Hickman High
School in Columbia, where she was a cheer-
leader and Pep Club president and was elec-
ted homecoming queen. While attending the
University of Missouri, McCaskill