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Christopher Bond
Senior Senator from Missouri
Incumbent
Assumed office  January 6, 1987 Serving with Claire McCaskill
Preceded by	Thomas Eagleton
Succeeded by	Incumbent (2011)
49th Governor of Missouri
In office January 12, 1981 – January 14, 1985
Lieutenant(s)	Kenneth Rothman
Preceded by	Joseph Patrick Teasdale
Succeeded by	John Ashcroft
47th Governor of Missouri
In office January 8, 1973 – January 10, 1977
Lieutenant(s)	William C. Phelps
Preceded by	Warren Eastman Hearnes
Succeeded by	Joseph Patrick Teasdale
Born	March 06, 1939 (1939-03-06) (age 68) St. Louis, Missouri
Nationality	American
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Linda Bond
Alma mater	Princeton University
Religion	Presbyterian

Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond (born March 6, 1939) is the former governor and current senior United States Senator of Missouri. He has been in the Senate since 1987 and is a member of the Republican Party.

Contents 1 Early life and career 2 Initial public service 3 U.S. Senate 3.1 Elections 3.2 Environmental record 3.3 Approval ratings 4 Personal life 5 Footnotes 6 External links

A sixth-generation Missourian, Bond was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Elizabeth Green and Arthur D. Bond.^[1] His father was captain of the 1924 of the 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 native Mexico, Missouri. Kit Bond graduated from Deerfield Academy in 1956, Princeton University in 1960, and the University of Virginia School of Law in 1963 (where he was first in his class). 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 LLP in Washington, D.C.

Bond's rise in Missouri politics was meteoric: four years after returning to his home state, he was elected governor. Bond moved back to his hometown of Mexico, Missouri in the fall of 1967, and ran for Congress in 1968. He won the Republican primary in August, and nearly defeated the incumbent, Democratic Congressman Bill Hungate, in November. Then-Attorney General John Danforth hired Bond as an Assistant Attorney General in 1969, where Bond led the office's Consumer Protection Division. At the age of 31, Bond was elected Missouri State Auditor in 1970; two years later, Bond captured the governor's mansion, making him, at 33 years of age, the youngest governor in the history of Missouri.

In many ways 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. While governor, on June 25, 1976 he signed an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order against "Mormons" issued by governor Lilburn Boggs on October 27, 1838. In 1976, in a surprising upset, Bond was defeated for re-election by Democrat Joseph P. Teasdale, then Jackson County Prosecutor. Teasdale's tenure was rocky, and in 1980 Bond made a successful comeback, defeating fellow Republican and incumbent Lieutenant Governor Bill Phelps in the primary, and Teasdale in November. Among his most noted accomplishments was taking the Parents As Teachers program statewide.

Bond was succeeded as governor in 1985 by John Ashcroft, also a Republican.

After Sen. Thomas Eagleton decided not to run for re-election, Bond was elected Senator in 1986, defeating Lieutenant Governor Harriett Woods. Bond was narrowly re-elected in 1992 over St. Louis County Councilwoman Geri Rothman-Serot. In 1998 Bond decisively defeated Attorney General Jay Nixon and Libertarian Tamara Millay after a hard-fought campaign, and in 2004 he handily won re-election over Democratic challenger State Treasurer Nancy Farmer with 56 percent of the vote.

The conservative environmental watchdog group Republicans for Environmental Protection (REP) has given Bond an exceptionally low rating of –2 for the 109th United States Congress, citing anti-environment votes on seven out of seven issues deemed critical by the organization. According to the 2006 REP scorecard, Bond supported oil drilling both offshore and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, while opposing “efficiency and renewable-resource programs to improve energy security, lower costs, and reduce energy-related environmental impacts."^[2]

Source	Date	Approve	Disapprove	Undecided
Survey USA	November 20, 2007	43%	45%	12%

Bond's son Sam, who recently (fall 2007) returned from his second tour of duty in Iraq, is an officer in the United States Marine Corps, making Bond one of only a few federal elected officials with a child serving in uniform.

In 1994, his wife, Carolyn, filed for a divorce, which was finalized the following year. Bond married Linda Pell, now Linda Bond, in 2002. She grew up in the Kansas City, Missouri, suburb of Gladstone and works as a consultant to the National Republican Senatorial Committee. She and Bond had dated for about a year before they were engaged on May 17, 2001, and had also dated in 1996 and 1997. It is her second marriage as well.

After winning his second term as Governor, Bond sued his investment manager and Paine Webber, alleging his $1.3 million trust fund had been drained. He was one of several clients who sued, and he settled in 1996 for $900,000.

Bond has permanent vision loss in one eye, which he claims is the result of undiagnosed amblyopia during childhood.[1][2]

• United States Senator Kit Bond, U.S. Senate website

• Kit Bond's biography at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Kit Bond's voting record maintained by The Washington Post
• Kit Bond's campaign finance reports and data at the Federal Election Commission
• Kit Bond's campaign contributions at OpenSecrets.org
• Kit Bond's biography, voting record, and interest group ratings at Project Vote Smart
• Kit Bond's issue positions and quotes at On The Issues
• Kit Bond's staff salary data at Legistorm.com

• Kit Bond for U.S. Senate, Campaign site

Political offices
Preceded by Haskell Holman	Missouri State Auditor 1971 – 1973	Succeeded by John Ashcroft
Preceded by Warren E. Hearnes	Governor of Missouri 1973 – 1977	Succeeded by Joseph P. Teasdale
Preceded by Joseph P. Teasdale	Governor of Missouri 1981 – 1985	Succeeded by John Ashcroft
Preceded by Dale Bumpers	Chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee 1995 – 2001	Succeeded by John Kerry
United States Senate
Preceded by Thomas Eagleton	United States Senator (Class 3) from Missouri 1987 – present Served alongside: John Danforth, John Ashcroft, Jean Carnahan, Jim Talent, Claire McCaskill	Incumbent

v • d • e Governors of Missouri

McNair • Bates • Williams • Miller • Dunklin • Boggs • Reynolds • M. Marmaduke • Edwards • King • Price • Polk • H. Jackson • Stewart • C. Jackson • Gamble • Hall • Fletcher • McClurg • Brown • Woodson • Hardin • Phelps • Crittenden • J. Marmaduke • Morehouse • Francis • Stone • Stephens • Dockery • Folk • Hadley • Major • Gardner • Hyde • Baker • Caulfield • Park • Stark • Donnell • Donnelly • Smith • Donnelly • Blair • Dalton • Hearnes • Bond • Teasdale • Bond • Ashcroft • Carnahan • Wilson • Holden • Blunt

v • d • e Missouri's current delegation to the United States Congress
Senators	Kit Bond (R), Claire McCaskill (D)
Representative(s)	Lacy Clay (D), Todd Akin (R), Russ Carnahan (D), Ike Skelton (D), Emanuel Cleaver (D), Sam Graves (R), Roy Blunt (R), Jo Ann Emerson (R), Kenny Hulshof (R)
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v • d • e United States Senators from Missouri

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v • d • e Current members of the United States Senate
AL: Shelby (R), Sessions (R) AK: Stevens (R), Murkowski (R) AZ: McCain (R), Kyl (R) AR: Lincoln (D), Pryor (D) CA: Feinstein (D), Boxer (D) CO: Allard (R), Salazar (D) CT: Dodd (D), Lieberman (I) DE: Biden (D), Carper (D) FL: Nelson (D), Martinez (R) GA: Chambliss (R), Isakson (R) HI: Inouye (D), Akaka (D) ID: Craig (R), Crapo (R) IL: Durbin (D), Obama (D) IN: Lugar (R), Bayh (D) IA: Grassley (R), Harkin (D) KS: Brownback (R), Roberts (R) KY: McConnell (R), Bunning (R) LA: Landrieu (D), Vitter (R) ME: Snowe (R), Collins (R) MD: Mikulski (D), Cardin (D) MA: Kennedy (D), Kerry (D) MI: Levin (D), Stabenow (D) MN: Coleman (R), Klobuchar (D) MS: Cochran (R), Vacant MO: Bond (R), McCaskill (D) MT: Baucus (D), Tester (D) NE: Hagel (R), Nelson (D) NV: Reid (D), Ensign (R) NH: Gregg (R), Sununu (R) NJ: Lautenberg (D), Menendez (D) NM: Domenici (R), Bingaman (D) NY: Schumer (D), Clinton (D) NC: Dole (R), Burr (R) ND: Conrad (D), Dorgan (D) OH: Voinovich (R), Brown (D) OK: Inhofe (R), Coburn (R) OR: Wyden (D), Smith (R) PA: Specter (R), Casey (D) RI: Reed (D), Whitehouse (D) SC: Graham (R), DeMint (R) SD: Johnson (D), Thune (R) TN: Alexander (R), Corker (R) TX: Hutchison (R), Cornyn (R) UT: Hatch (R), Bennett (R) VT: Leahy (D), Sanders (I) VA: Warner (R), Webb (D) WA: Murray (D), Cantwell (D) WV: Byrd (D), Rockefeller (D) WI: Kohl (D), Feingold (D) WY: Enzi (R), Barrasso (R)
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