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Mel Carnahan
Governor of Missouri, 2000 U.S. senator-elect (1934–2000) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Melvin Eugene Carnahan (February 11, 1934 – October 16, 2000) was an American lawyer and politician. He was the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 until his death in a plane crash in 2000. He was a Democrat.
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