Claire McCaskill
Missouri – Incumbent
Bill worked at the McCaskill Feed Mill. He was a veteran of World War II, a modest man whose family would only find out years after his death that he'd been awarded a Bronze Star for his service. Not long after Claire was born, the family moved to Lebanon, Missouri, where Betty Anne's family ran the corner drug store. Another move shortly thereafter landed Claire in Columbia, Missouri, where she attended Hickman High School... The year that Missouri's Harry Truman left the Presidency, Claire McCaskill's parents, Bill and Betty Anne traveled to Rolla, Missouri for the birth of their daughter. At the time, there was no hospital in their hometown of Houston, Missouri...