Given the question: Xenophon Pierce Wilfley (/znfn wlfli/; March 18 1871 May 4 1931) was a Democratic Party politician who represented the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate for five months in 1918.Wilfley was born near Mexico Missouri and attended local country schools in his youth. An 1891 graduate of Clarksburg College he graduated from Central Methodist College in Fayette Missouri in 1894 teaching there for one year and at Sedalia High School in Sedalia Missouri for three. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Office Holder