1. Eric Stephen Schmitt was born on June 20,1975 and is an American politician and attorney serving as the junior United States senator from Missouri since 2023.
51 Facts About Eric Schmitt
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From 2005 to 2008, Eric Schmitt was an alderman for Glendale, Missouri.
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Eric Schmitt served as member of the Missouri Senate from 2009 to 2017, representing the 15th district.
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On November 3,2020, Eric Schmitt was elected to a full four-year term as attorney general.
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Eric Schmitt supported failed lawsuits seeking to invalidate the 2020 election results.
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Eric Schmitt sued the Biden administration 25 times, with mixed outcomes.
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Eric Schmitt challenged the administration's policies, and signed onto an amicus brief that argued that LGBT people are not protected by workplace discrimination bans.
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In 2022, Eric Schmitt was elected to the US Senate, defeating Democratic nominee Trudy Busch Valentine.
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Eric Schmitt was born in Bridgeton, Missouri, a suburb of St Louis.
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At Truman, Eric Schmitt was a member of the Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity, played football and baseball, and was a founding member of Truman's Habitat for Humanity chapter.
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Eric Schmitt received a scholarship to attend Saint Louis University School of Law, where he earned his Juris Doctor in 2000.
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Eric Schmitt served as an alderman for Glendale, Missouri, from 2005 to 2008; he was one of two aldermen for Ward 3.
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On November 4,2008, Eric Schmitt was elected to the Missouri Senate.
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Eric Schmitt represented the 15th district, which includes parts of central and western St Louis County.
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Eric Schmitt ran unopposed in both the primary and general elections in 2012.
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Eric Schmitt led the bipartisan legislative effort to bar cities, counties and law-enforcement agencies from setting traffic-ticket quotas.
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Eric Schmitt worked with Senator Jamilah Nasheed and others on the legislation, which passed the State Senate in February 2016 and was enacted into law.
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In 2010, Eric Schmitt, who has a son with autism, supported a bill in the Missouri General Assembly that required health insurers to pay up to $40,000 annually to beneficiaries for applied behavioral analysis, a type of autism therapy.
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Eric Schmitt sponsored a major franchise tax cut, which passed.
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Eric Schmitt did not run for reelection to the Missouri Senate in 2016 because he was term-limited.
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Eric Schmitt ran as a Republican and was unopposed in the Republican primary.
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Eric Schmitt defeated Democrat Judy Baker and Libertarian Sean O'Toole in the general election.
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Eric Schmitt launched the MO ABLE program in 2017, which is similar to 529 college savings plans.
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Eric Schmitt created the Show-Me Checkbook website which provides data on state spending, state revenues, payroll, debt obligations, and cash flow.
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Eric Schmitt made his legal challenges to the administration a major theme of his US Senate campaign.
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Eric Schmitt filed lawsuits to have the Affordable Care Act invalidated by courts.
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Eric Schmitt opposed the release of some inmates with violent felonies from jail during the pandemic, a measure that had been proposed to reduce COVID-19 spread in detention facilities.
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Eric Schmitt was involved in efforts to combat scammers and price gougers attempting to profiteer off COVID-19.
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Eric Schmitt described the lawsuit as a historic accountability measure, but legal experts called it a public relations stunt.
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In 2021, Eric Schmitt led a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its COVID-19 vaccine requirements for health care workers.
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In 2021, Eric Schmitt sued the Biden administration, challenging its decision to suspend new oil and gas leases on federal land and water.
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In January 2020, Eric Schmitt prosecuted a murder case in the City of St Louis.
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Eric Schmitt supported an effort in the Missouri legislature to increase the number of police officers in St Louis City by lifting the residency requirement for police officers.
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Eric Schmitt expressed concern about "the chilling effect that this [case] might have with people exercising their Second Amendment rights".
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In September 2019, almost all 50 state attorneys general, including Eric Schmitt, launched an antitrust investigation against Google.
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In 2019, Eric Schmitt was among 14 Republican state attorneys general signatories who signed an amicus brief to the Supreme Court brief arguing that the Civil Rights Act of 1964 does not protect LGBTQ+ people from employment discrimination.
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In 2019, Eric Schmitt spoke in defense of the Cameron R-1 School District after it came under criticism from the Freedom From Religion Foundation over a high school football coach who led students in prayer before and after games.
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Eric Schmitt was among 17 Republican attorneys general who supported Texas attorney general Ken Paxton in suing Georgia, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania to invalidate their electoral votes for Biden and overturn the election results.
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Eric Schmitt attempted to place sanctions on St Louis Circuit Attorney Gardner prior to hearings, but was denied.
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Eric Schmitt resisted the release on procedural grounds of Kevin Strickland, who served 43 years before his exoneration in November 2021.
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Eric Schmitt attempted to dismiss hearings on Michael Politte's conviction in Washington County after the prosecuting attorney filed a motion saying physical evidence from the 23-year-old case had been "scientifically proven false".
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On June 24,2022, minutes after the Supreme Court issued its decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women's Health Organization, which overturned the constitutional abortion protection that was set forth in Roe v Wade, Schmitt issued a declaration that effectively banned abortion in Missouri, with application of a "trigger law" that had passed in 2019.
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In September 2022, Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit on behalf of MOHELA to block President Biden's student debt relief plan.
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The lawsuit continued to the Supreme Court after Eric Schmitt left the office of attorney general.
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In 2016, Eric Schmitt joined 23 other Republican members of the State Senate in voting in favor of SB 656, a bill that removed the requirement for a permit to open carry and added a "stand your ground" provision.
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In 2022, Eric Schmitt received an "A+" rating and endorsement from the NRA Political Victory Fund.
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On March 24,2021, Eric Schmitt announced his candidacy for the United States Senate to succeed incumbent Republican Roy Blunt.
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Eric Schmitt's candidacy was backed by Missouri mega-donor Rex Sinquefield.
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Eric Schmitt pledged to vote against Mitch McConnell for the Senate Republican party leadership position.
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Eric Schmitt tweeted that he was honored to be the 2,000th senator to hold office in the history of the Senate.
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Eric Schmitt was among the 31 Senate Republicans who voted against final passage of the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023, a bill to raise the debt ceiling.