Former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan died on Tuesday at the age of 90, her family announced.<\/p>\n
In a statement on Tuesday, Carnahan’s family said that she “passed peacefully after a long and rich life.”<\/p>\n
“She was a fearless trailblazer,” the statement read. “She was brilliant, creative, compassionate and dedicated to her family and her fellow Missourians.”<\/p>\n
Carnahan’s cause of death is unknown, but her family disclosed that she passed away after a brief illness.<\/p>\n
MANCHIN HINTS AT POTENTIAL THIRD PARTY RUN AFTER SUPER TUESDAY<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Carnahan served as a Democrat<\/a> in the U.S. Senate from Jan. 3, 2001 to Nov. 25, 2002. She ascended to the position after her husband Mel was elected posthumously in 2000.<\/p>\n Mel, who died in a plane crash along with his son in 2000, had served as the Governor of Missouri<\/a> from 1992 until his death. He was running for U.S. Senate against incumbent John Ashcroft when he passed away.<\/p>\n MANCHIN \u2018ABSOLUTELY\u2019 CAN SEE HIMSELF AS PRESIDENT, THINKS BIDEN HEALTH OR TRUMP CONVICTION COULD GIVE OPENING<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Jean and Mel were married on June 12, 1954, after previously meeting at a church event.<\/a> Jean, who was born in D.C., graduated from George Washington University a year later.<\/p>\n Jean was succeeded by Republican Jim Talent, who won a special election against her in 2002.<\/p>\n “My name has never been on a ballot. On election night, there was no victory celebration,” Carnahan said after she was appointed to the U.S. Senate. “You are here because of your win. I am here because of my loss. But we are all here to do the work of this great nation.”<\/p>\n The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Former U.S. Senator Jean Carnahan died on Tuesday at the age of 90, her family announced. In a statement on Tuesday, Carnahan’s family said that she “passed peacefully after a long and rich life.” “She was a fearless trailblazer,” the statement read. “She was brilliant, creative, compassionate and dedicated to her family and her fellow … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}