Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan (/ˈdʒiːn ˈkɑrnəhæn/; born December 20 1933) is an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002. A Democrat she was appointed to the Senate to fill the seat of her husband Mel Carnahan who was posthumously elected to the seat in 2000. She became the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate.
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