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.

Former Sen. Christopher ‘Kit’ Bond, who served Missouri in the U.S. Senate for 24 years, died Tueday at age 86. Bond is seen here giving a Memorial Day address at the Liberty Memorial Star ...

Bond served as Missouri's governor from 1973 to 1977 and from 1981 to 1985. He then went on to the U.S. Senate, where he was elected in 1986. He was reelected in 1992, 1998 and 2004.