Wesley Bell MO-01

Wesley Jonell-Cleavon Bell (born November 5, 1974 is an American attorney and politician serving as prosecuting attorney for St. Louis County, Missouri. In a major upset, he defeated long-time yet controversial county prosecutor Bob McCulloch in the August 2018 Democratic primary election, and became the first Black county prosecuting attorney in St. Louis County history when he took office in January 2019. In 2024, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

On June 7, 2023, Bell announced his candidacy in the 2024 United States Senate election in Missouri. In October 2023, he instead opted to run for the U.S. House seat of Missouri’s 1st congressional district, defeating incumbent Cori Bush in the Democratic primary in August 2024.

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Cori Bush M0-01

Current Position: US Representative of MO 7th District since 2021
Affiliation: Democrat
District:  all of St. Louis City and much of northern St. Louis County, including the cities of Maryland Heights, University City, Ferguson and Florissant.   
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Cori Anika Bush  is an American politician, registered nurse, pastor, and activist serving as the U.S. Representative for Missouri’s 1st congressional district.

Bush defeated 10-term incumbent Lacy Clay in a 2020 U.S. House of Representatives primary election largely viewed as a historic upset, advancing to the November general election in a solidly Democratic congressional district. Bush is the first African-American woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri. She previously ran in the Democratic primary for the district in 2018 and the 2016 U.S. Senate election in Missouri. She was featured in the 2019 Netflix documentary Knock Down the House, which covered her first primary challenge to Clay.

From 2011 to 2014, she served as a pastor at Kingdom Embassy International Church.

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Lacy Clay

Current Position: US Representative of MO District 1 since 2001
Affiliation: Democrat
Candidate: 2021 US Senator

The Congressman is the Chairman of the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development & Insurance.

In that leadership role, he is fighting to restore consumer protection, fair housing and a real chance for millions of working families to achieve the American dream.  Chairman Clay has also made it his special mission to take on the discriminatory and destructive practice of red-lining in minority neighborhoods by banks, insurance companies and appraisers who have been allowed to exclude entire sections of American cities on the basis of race.

Source: Government page

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