Kit Bond
| Kit Bond | |
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| Chair of the Senate Small Business Committee | |
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In office January 4, 1995 – June 6, 2001 |
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| Preceded by | Dale Bumpers |
| Succeeded by | John Kerry |
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United States Senator from Missouri |
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In office January 3, 1987 – January 3, 2011 |
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| Preceded by | Thomas Eagleton |
| Succeeded by | Roy Blunt |
| 47th and 49th Governor of Missouri | |
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In office January 12, 1981 – January 14, 1985 |
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| Lieutenant | Ken Rothman |
| Preceded by | Joseph P. Teasdale |
| Succeeded by | John Ashcroft |
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In office January 8, 1973 – January 10, 1977 |
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| Lieutenant | Bill Phelps |
| Preceded by | Warren E. Hearnes |
| Succeeded by | Joseph P. Teasdale |
| 28th Auditor of Missouri | |
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In office January 11, 1971 – January 8, 1973 |
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| Governor | Warren E. Hearnes |
| Preceded by | Haskell Holman |
| Succeeded by | John Ashcroft |
| Personal details | |
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Christopher Samuel Bond March 6, 1939 St. Louis, Missouri, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Carolyn Reid (Divorced 1995) Linda Pell (2002–present) |
| Education |
Princeton University (BA) University of Virginia (JD) |
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Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (born March 6, 1939) is a former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he defeated Democrat Harriett Woods by a margin of 53%–47%. He was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004. On January 8, 2009, he announced that he would not seek re-election to a fifth term in 2010, and was succeeded by current Senator Roy Blunt on January 3, 2011. Following his retirement from the Senate, Bond became a partner at Thompson Coburn.
Before his career in the U.S. Senate, Bond served two non-consecutive terms as Governor of Missouri, from 1973 to 1977 and from 1981 to 1985. He was previously State Auditor of Missouri from 1971 to 1973.
A sixth-generation Missourian, Bond was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the son of Elizabeth (née Green) and Arthur D. Bond. His father was captain of the 1924 Missouri Tigers football team and a Rhodes Scholar. His maternal grandfather, A.P. Green, founded A.P. Green Industries, a fireclay manufacturer and a major employer for many years in Bond's hometown Mexico, Missouri. Kit Bond graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1956, Princeton University in 1960 with an A.B. (while at Princeton he was a member of the Quadrangle Club), and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1963. From 1963 to 1964, Bond served as a law clerk to the Honorable Elbert Tuttle, then Chief Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in Atlanta, Georgia. From 1964 to 1967, Bond practiced law at Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C.
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