Talk:Mel Carnahan

message: User:132.241.245.49 has added Category:Targets of alleged Bush administration reprisals to this article.  Mel Carnahan died in October 2000 and the Bush administration did not begin until January 2001.  Therefore, I don't understand how this category could possibly be applicable.  I'm also not certain what alleged incidents, the tag refers to.  Do other editors have thoughts on this matter?  TMS63112 07:17, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: The legal procedure was followed in 2000.  No protests would have been valid. As the entry states, it was too late to remove Carnahan from the ballot, and the procedure in place was for the Lt Gov to appoint if necessary.  Some have commented that the Lt. Governor wasn't required to appoint Jean Carnahan, and the promise before the election that he would do that was just that -- a promise.  One he did not break, though.  Any conspiracy theories regarding Jean Carnahan would belong on her talk page. Gavroche42 03:48, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Bush administration reprisals?

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:Mel Carnahan.jpg

message: Mel Carnahan was never a United States Senator-elect, much less a Senator. Upon certification that a dead person had received a plurality, the seat was declared vacant. Trying to shoehorn that into an elected office infobox is cute, but not factual. As a result, it has no place here. Carnahan is not the only person to have died or refused office after election to the Senate, and none of them have it noted in the infobox. Treatment in the article is good enough. -Rrius (talk) 21:08, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Senator/Senator-elect

message: I noticed that there is an inconsistency in this article regarding Carnahan's deathplace. The InfoBox lists the Jefferson County town of Goldman, but the article text states that the plane crash in which Carnahan died in occurred near the Jefferson County cities of Pevely and Hillsboro. I had considered changing both the InfoBox and article text to reflect that he died in Jefferson County without any specific mention of nearby cities or towns, but decided to get a second opinion from my fellow Wikipedians before doing so. --TommyBoy (talk) 06:46, 24 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: The mention of the towns of Pevely and Hillsboro has been removed from the article by an unregisted user, and his deathplace is listed as Jefferson County without any specific mention of a city or town in his Missouri State Treasurer biography, so I will update the article accordingly. --TommyBoy (talk) 02:43, 2 February 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Carnahan's Deathplace 

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message: Is it appropriate (or rather, accurate) to describe Carnahan as a "Senator-elect" in his infobox. Technically he was already dead when he was elected, so I don't know if that label could apply to him. Or at least "died before taking office" should be something like "posthumously elected". estar8806 (talk) ★ 22:58, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: @Estar8806 That's probably fair. That wording would imply he won and died after that. This article is in the process of a Good Article nomination (see above), so when I make the requested edits in the coming days, I'll change it to posthumously elected, and ask the person reviewing for their take on any further infobox action.  FountofInterestingInfo (talk) 01:55, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: Good by me, I was going to change it myself, but saw that this was a GAN right now so I figured I would hold off. estar8806 (talk) ★ 01:56, 12 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Senator-elect in infobox