Jean Carnahan, Missouri’s First Female US Senator, Dies at 90
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Jean Carnahan, the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate, has passed away at the age of 90 after a brief illness. Carnahan was appointed to the Senate seat that her husband, Mel Carnahan, a two-term Democratic governor of Missouri, won posthumously in 2000. She served in the Senate for nearly two years and held a post on the…