16 Facts About Jason Crowell

Jason Glennon Crowell was born on February 3,1972 and is a former state senator from the US state of Missouri who served two terms in the Missouri Senate.

Jason Crowell's mother taught disabled children at the Parkview State School for over 30 years.

Jason Crowell then attended Southeast Missouri State University in Cape Girardeau where he received his BSBA in economics in 1995.

Jason Crowell was Student Government President at Southeast and in 1993 he worked in Washington DC as a legislative intern for the late Congressman Bill Emerson.

In 1996, while in law school, Jason Crowell served as a judicial intern to Missouri Supreme Court Judge Ronnie White.

In November 2000, Jason Crowell was elected to Missouri's 158th House District, based in his home city of Cape Girardeau.

In 2003, Senator Jason Crowell was elected to serve the chamber as majority floor leader, the leadership position responsible for setting the agenda and bill order for floor debate.

In 2004, Jason Crowell decided to retire from his house seat to run in Missouri's 27th Senate District.

Jason Crowell was unable to run for re-election due to term limits.

In 2008 and each year thereafter Senator Jason Crowell was successful in securing $494,000 for the Southeast Missouri Autism Center's annual operating budget which opened in 2009.

Jason Crowell passed legislation in the Senate in 2007 that included the phase out of the state income tax on social security benefits and public pensions benefits for over 200,000 Missouri seniors.

Jason Crowell was successful in getting an additional $250,000 to go towards the Veterans' Service Officer Program that assists veterans in receiving federal benefits they have earned and a $2.8 million increase in state funding to fill to capacity our seven veterans homes in the state.

Jason Crowell sponsored legislation that reformed the Administrative Law Judge and Legal Advisors Retirement Plan.

Jason Crowell worked to establish a Sales Tax Holiday, which provides an annual three-day sales tax exemption during the back-to-school shopping seasons.

Jason Crowell decided to run for the vacant Missouri's 8th congressional district after Republican incumbent Jo Ann Emerson decided to resign to become President of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association.

Jason Crowell is an Eagle Scout with the Boy Scouts of America.