Christopher Samuel Bond was born on March 6,1939 and is an American attorney, politician and former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party.
32 Facts About Kit Bond
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Kit Bond was previously State Auditor of Missouri from 1971 to 1973.
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Kit Bond's father was captain of the 1924 Missouri Tigers football team and a Rhodes Scholar.
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Kit Bond completed a 162-page senior thesis that year titled "Missouri Farm Organizations and the Problems of Agriculture".
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Kit 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.
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Kit Bond moved back to his hometown of Mexico, Missouri in the fall of 1967, and ran for Congress in 1968 in Missouri's 9th congressional district, the rural northeastern part of the state.
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Out of Hungate's five re-election campaigns, that 1968 election against Kit Bond was his worst performance.
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In 1970, at the age of 31, Kit Bond was elected Missouri State Auditor.
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Kit Bond was the first Republican in 28 years to serve as governor of Missouri.
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In many ways, Kit Bond governed as a moderate during his first term as governor: for example, he drew criticism from conservatives for his support of the Equal Rights Amendment.
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In 1980, Kit Bond made a successful comeback, defeating fellow Republican and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Bill Phelps in the primary, and Teasdale in November.
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Kit Bond served as the Chairman of the Midwestern Governors Association in 1977 and 1983.
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Kit Bond was succeeded as governor in 1985 by John Ashcroft, a Republican who Kit Bond had appointed to complete his unexpired term as State Auditor after he was elected governor.
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Kit Bond was re-elected in 1992 by less than expected over St Louis County Councilwoman Geri Rothman-Serot, ex-wife of former Lieutenant Governor Ken Rothman.
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In 1998 Kit Bond decisively defeated Attorney General Jay Nixon and Libertarian Tamara Millay after a hard-fought campaign, and in 2004 he won re-election over Democratic challenger State Treasurer Nancy Farmer with 56 percent of the vote.
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Kit Bond has been cited as favoring zero-carbon energy from nuclear power.
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Kit Bond has opposed setting forth interrogation methods used by the Central Intelligence Agency to conform to the US Army Field Manual.
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Kit Bond has been a great supporter of expanding free trade to the third world, and he believes in giving presidential authority to fast track trade relations.
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Kit Bond has voted for the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Central America Free Trade Agreement and believes in permanently normalizing trade relations with China and Vietnam.
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Kit Bond voted against the McCain Feingold Act for bipartisan campaign finance solutions.
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Kit Bond has voted consistently against same-sex marriage, supporting the proposed constitutional ban of it.
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On June 25,1976, Bond officially ordered the recension of Executive Order Number 44 issued by Lilburn W Boggs in 1838 that ordered the expulsion or extermination of all Mormons from the State of Missouri and issued an apology to Mormons on behalf of all Missourians.
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In October 2008, Kit Bond apologized to former US Attorney Todd Graves, after a US Justice Department report cited Kit Bond for forcing Graves out over a disagreement with Representative Sam Graves.
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The e-mail suggested that Graves was replaced with a candidate favored by Kit Bond for clearing the way for an appointment of a federal judge from Arkansas on the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Kit Bond serves as a co-chair of the Housing Commission at the Bipartisan Policy Center.
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In cleaning out his senatorial office in December 2010, it was discovered that Kit Bond had inadvertently taken the Apollo 17 display when he had left the governor's office.
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Kit Bond subsequently returned the display to the governor of Missouri at the time, Jay Nixon, who passed it on to the Missouri State Museum.
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Kit Bond was one of four former governors who had taken their states' lunar sample displays upon leaving office; the other three were the former governors of Colorado, West Virginia, and Arkansas.
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Kit Bond grew up in the Kansas City suburb of Gladstone and is a partner of a fundraising firm that supports Republican organizations.
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Kit Bond was one of several clients who sued, and he settled in 1996 for $900,000.
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In 2009, Kit Bond co-authored a book with Lewis Simons entitled The Next Front: Southeast Asia and the Road to Global Peace with Islam.
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Kit Bond has permanent vision loss in one eye, which he attributes to undiagnosed amblyopia during childhood.