Senator Claire McCaskill To Speak At Jackson Day

By Kleinheider Posted on May 30, 2008 at 12:53 pm

While the traditional keynote address at the Tennessee Democratic Party’s annual Jackson Day celebration this Saturday will be given by the party’s popular titular head Governor Phil Bredesen, Post Politics has learned that the heretofore unannounced guest speaker at the event will be Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri.

A former Missouri state auditor, Claire McCaskill defeated Governor Bob Holden in the 2004 Democratic primary race, becoming the first person to defeat an incumbent governor in a primary election in state history.

Ultimately losing that election, McCaskill ran in 2006 for the U.S. Senate defeating Republican Senator Jim Talent by a margin of 50% to 47% becoming part of a large freshman class of Democrats brought to office on a wave of anti-Republican sentiment.

After taking office Senate officials arranged for her assigned desk to be a desk used by none other than Missouri’s own Harry Truman. McCaskill was born in Rolla, Missouri.

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