Current Position: US Senator since 2023
Affiliation: Republican

Schmitt served as the 43rd Missouri Attorney General from 2019 to 2023.

From 2005 to 2008, Schmitt was an alderman for Glendale, Missouri. He served as member of the Missouri Senate from 2009 to 2017, representing the 15th district. In 2016, Schmitt was elected Missouri state treasurer. On November 13, 2018, Governor Mike Parson named Schmitt attorney general of Missouri after the incumbent, Josh Hawley, was elected to the United States Senate. On November 3, 2020, Schmitt was elected to a full four-year term as attorney general. As AG, he filed lawsuits to have the Affordable Care Act invalidated by courts and sued school districts and municipalities for implementing mask requirements during the COVID-19 pandemic.

He was a partner at the firm Lathrop & Gage, LLP in Clayton, Missouri.[8] Schmitt served as an alderman for Glendale, Missouri, from 2005 to 2008; he was one of two aldermen for Ward 3.

The 2022 United States Senate election in Missouri will be held on November 8, 2022, concurrently with elections for all other Class 3 U.S. senators and elections for the U.S. House of Representatives, to select a member of the United States Senate to represent the state of Missouri.

On March 8, 2021, incumbent Republican Senator Roy Blunt announced that he would not seek reelection to a third term in office. The primaries will be held on Tuesday, August 2.

Current Position: Nurse
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2023 US Senator

Current Position: Attorney General since 2019
Affiliation: Republican
Candidate: 2023 US Senator
Former Positions: State Treasurer from 2017 – 2019; State Senator for District 15 from 2009 – 2017

Eric Stephen Schmitt (born June 20, 1975) is an American lawyer and politician who has served as the 43rd attorney general of Missouri since 2019. He is the Republican nominee in the 2022 United States Senate election in Missouri.

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