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The district is based in Southeast Missouri and includes all of the counties of Bollinger, Cape Girardeau, Madison, Mississippi, Perry, and Scott. [2] Major municipalities in the district include Cape Girardeau, Sikeston, Jackson, Perryville, Charleston, Scott City, and Fredericktown. The district is also home to Southeast Missouri State University
Raymond Melvin Gateley (1926-2018), former president of the Missouri State Teacher's Association who served in the Army Air Corps during the Pacific War and as a member of the Cape Girardeau City Council for eight years; James “J.J.” Williamson (1952-2022), Cape Girardeau's first black city council member, was elected in 1994. [55]
The district's largest city is Cape Girardeau. A predominantly rural district, the district votes strongly Republican for national offices. In 2004, President George W. Bush received 63% of the vote in the district over U.S. Senator John Kerry (D-Massachusetts) who clinched 36%.
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Cape Girardeau (/ dʒ ɪ ˈ r ɑːr d oʊ / jirr-AR-doh, French: Cap-Girardeau [kap ʒiʁaʁdo] ⓘ; colloquially referred to as "Cape") is a city in Cape Girardeau and Scott Counties in the U.S. state of Missouri. At the 2020 census, the population was 39,540, making it the 17th-largest in the state. [5]
HOUSTON (AP) — A Texas judge has ruled in favor of a Republican candidate challenging the results in a 2022 judicial race and ordered that a new election be held in the nation’s third-most ...
The 8th district is the most rural district of Missouri, taking in rural southeastern Missouri, including the Missouri Bootheel, as well as the cities of Cape Girardeau and Poplar Bluff. The incumbent is Republican Jason Smith, who was re-elected with 76.0% of the vote in 2022. [1]