[DOC] [TLE] Mel Carnahan - Wikipedia [PAR] In 2000, Carnahan ran for US Senator against incumbent ... Lieutenant Governor 
Roger B. Wilson succeeded Carnahan as Missouri's Governor, ... Because the 
state's election law would not allow Carnahan's name to be ... vacant as a result 
of Mel Carnahan's win in the election. [DOC] [TLE] United States Senate election in Missouri, 2000 - Wikipedia [PAR] The 2000 United States Senate election in Missouri was held on November 7, 
2000, to select the next U.S. Senator from Missouri. Incumbent Senator John 
Ashcroft lost re-election to Mel Carnahan, despite ... Candidates[edit]. Major 
candidates[edit]. Democratic[edit]. Mel Carnahan, Governor of Missouri (
deceased)... [DOC] [TLE] Missouri elects dead man as senator | The Independent [PAR] Nov 7, 2000 ... With 84 per cent of the state's precincts reporting, Carnahan had 1,075,872 votes, 
... No one had ever posthumously won election to the Senate, though voters on at 
... And for reasons we don't understand, the mantle has now fallen upon us. ... 
Meanwhile, the late governor's campaign spent dlrs 700,000 to... [DOC] [TLE] 4 Dead Politicians Who Still Got Elected | Mental Floss [PAR] Nov 3, 2010 ... California State Senator Jenny Oropeza easily won re-election ... Oropeza's story 
is rare, but certainly not unprecedented in the history of American elections. ... 
Missouri Governor Mel Carnahan famously won election to the Senate in ... In 
addition to mental_floss, he's written for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon... [DOC] [TLE] Late Missouri Governor Wins Senate Seat - latimes [PAR] Nov 8, 2000 ... Mel Carnahan, killed in a plane crash three weeks ago, won election to the U.S. 
Senate early Wednesday in one of the oddest and ... for state Democrats, who 
had all but given up even contesting the seat after the governor's... [DOC] [TLE] Sentiment Helped Fuel Posthumous Senate Win in Missouri - latimes [PAR] Nov 9, 2000 ... Dozens of people waited in line to grab seats on the floor and fold letters ... It was 
that kind of grass-roots loyalty--and sentiment--that pushed the late Missouri Gov. 
Mel Carnahan to victory in a U.S. Senate race brimming with emotion. ... 
Carnahan's death, Ashcroft said: "Missouri is a compassionate state. [DOC] [TLE] THE 2000 ELECTIONS: MISSOURI; Senator Refuses To Challenge ... [PAR] Nov 9, 2000 ... Mel Carnahan, the Democratic candidate, would fill the Senate seat. Mr. 
Carnahan won with 50 percent of the vote compared with 48 percent for Mr. 
Ashcroft. ... the will of the people in the selection of their United States Senator.'' ... 
Late Tuesday, some Republicans here also claimed that Democrats had... [DOC] [TLE] BBC News | AMERICAS | Dead man wins Senate seat [PAR] Nov 8, 2000 ... A candidate for the US Senate, who was killed in a plane crash in October, has ... 
Mel Carnahan, a Democrat and former governor of Missouri State in the ... 
against a newly-widowed woman and her popular late husband. [DOC] [TLE] Articles about Jean Carnahan - tribunedigital-chicagotribune [PAR] Party: Democrat Current position: U.S. senator On how Republicans view her: "I'
m sort ... Mel Carnahan has moved the state's Senate race into new terrain. ... a 
Senate seat in Missouri, which was won by a dead man--the late Democratic Gov
. [DOC] [TLE] Mel Carnahan - Missouri State Treasurer Clint Zweifel - MO.gov [PAR] Mel Carnahan (Democrat), the 40th State Treasurer, was born Feb. ... would 
choose a person to serve as U.S. Senator if Governor Carnahan won the seat. [DOC] [TLE] Ex-Navy SEAL Eric Greitens wins governor primary - Examiner [PAR] Aug 3, 2016 ... Koster, a former Republican state senator and prosecuting attorney, .... His father, 
Mel Carnahan, was a two-term governor of Missouri who won election to the U.S. 
Senate in ... Mel Carnahan's wife, Jean Carnahan was appointed to fill her ... 
Senate District 11 seat that has been unoccupied since the late... [DOC] [TLE] The Ashcroft Imperative - GSB: DCDave's Column [PAR] "In one of the strangest elections in

Question: The late governor Mel Carnahan won a U.S. Senate seat in this state
Answer: Missouri