Claire McCaskill is an American attorney and Democratic politician from Missouri whose career ran almost entirely through public legal and elected office. Born in Rolla in 1953 and raised in Houston, Lebanon and Columbia, she took a law degree at the University of Missouri School of Law in 1978, clerked for the Missouri Court of Appeals for the Western District in Kansas City, and then joined the Jackson County prosecutor's office, where she specialized in arson cases. She was elected Jackson County Prosecutor in 1992, the first woman to hold that post, and was reelected in 1996. She served as Missouri State Auditor from 1999 to 2007 and as a United States senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019, losing her seat in 2018. Since 2019 she has worked as a political analyst for MSNBC and NBC and has written the memoir Plenty Ladylike.
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American politician and attorney
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American politician and attorney
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born July 24, 1953
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the first woman to be elected to the chamber from Missouri
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where she specialized in arson cases
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an American politician and attorney
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served as a United States senator from Missouri from 2007 to 2019
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