Missouri Lieutenant Gubernatorial Election, 2016
The 2016 Missouri lieutenant gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, concurrently with the 2016 United States presidential election, 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as 2016 United States Senate elections, elections to the United States Senate and 2016 United States House of Representatives elections, elections to the United States House of Representatives and various United States elections, 2016#State elections, state and 2016 United States elections#Local elections, local elections. The primaries were held on August 2. Incumbent Republican Party (United States), Republican Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder did not seek re-election to a fourth term in office, instead unsuccessfully 2016 Missouri gubernatorial election, running for List of governors of Missouri, Governor of Missouri. State Senator Mike Parson and former U.S. Representative Russ Carnahan won the Republican and Democratic Party (United States), Democ ...
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Mike Parson
Michael Lynn Parson (born September 17, 1955) is an American politician serving as the 57th governor of Missouri since 2018. A member of the Republican Party, Parson served in the Missouri House of Representatives from 2005 to 2011 and in the Missouri Senate from 2011 to 2017. He served as the 47th lieutenant governor of Missouri under Eric Greitens from 2017 to 2018. He was sworn in as governor on June 1, 2018, upon Greitens's resignation; he served the remainder of Greitens's term and was elected governor in his own right in 2020. Parson was the sheriff of Polk County from 1993 to 2004. He was a member of the Missouri legislature, serving in the House from 2005 to 2011 and the Senate from 2011 to 2017. In 2016, he ran for lieutenant governor alongside Greitens. They won the election, and Parson was sworn in on January 9, 2017. In 2018, Greitens was federally indicted on (later withdrawn) charges of invasion of privacy; he resigned on June 1 amid legislative impeachment proce ...
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