Button, Campaign
date: label: date made
content: 2000
notes: label: Description
content: This button promoted the campaign of Mel Carnahan (Democrat) for the US Senate from Missouri in 2000. Carnahan was the sitting governor of Missouri during this election. Three weeks before the election, Carnahan was killed in a place crash. Missouri election law did not permit Carnahan's name being removed from the ballot. When his lieutenant governor, Roger Wilson, ascended to the governor's office, he announced that, if Carnahan won and the seat became empty, he would appoint Carnahan's wife, Jean Carnahan, to the seat. Mel Carnahan defeated the incumbent John Ashcroft, the first posthumous Senate victory in US history.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
setName: label: See more items in
content: Political History: Political History, Campaign Collection
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Carl W. Toepel, Ph.D.
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2011.0128.071
label: accession number
content: 2011.0128
label: catalog number
content: 2011.0128.071
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Button, Campaign
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 2 in x 2 in; 5.08 cm x 5.08 cm