KANSAS CITY, Mo., Aug. 8 -- Voters cleared the way today for a fierce fall contest for Senate, nominating retiring Democratic Gov. Mel Carnahan and first-term Republican Sen. John D. Ashcroft as ...

THE NEW SENATOR FROM MISSOURI. Share full article. March 22, 1861. ... This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online publication in 1996.