Nancy Farmer

Politician, Person

1956 –

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Who is Nancy Farmer?

Nancy Farmer is Missouri politician who was the 43rd State Treasurer of Missouri, serving from 2001 to 2005.

Farmer was raised in Jacksonville, Illinois and graduated from Illinois College there in 1979.

From 1993 to 1997, she served in the Missouri House of Representatives. During her tenure in the state legislature, she served as chairwoman of the powerful Ways and Means Committee,

Farmer served as Assistant Treasurer under then-State Treasurer Bob Holden since 1997, then was elected State Treasurer of Missouri herself in November 2000. She was the first woman to hold both posts.

She was the unsuccessful Democratic candidate in the 2004 United States Senate election in Missouri, running against incumbent Republican Kit Bond.

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Born
Sep 11, 1956
Profession
Education
  • Illinois College
Lived in
  • St. Louis
  • Missouri

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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