After nearly five decades in public office, U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is hanging it up.
In a video announcement Monday, the Republican from Niangua said he will not seek a third term in the Senate seat in 2022.
“After 14 general election victories three to county office, seven to the United States House of Representatives, and four statewide elections I won’t be a candidate for reelection to the United States Senate next year, he said.
In the lead-up to the big announcement, he recounted his work to expand access to mental health services, strengthen national security and improve the country s infrastructure to make way for better jobs.
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Last known widow of a Civil War soldier dies at 101 Tim Balk
Helen Viola Jackson, the one-time spouse of elderly Union soldier who wished to leave her his pension, died last month at 101 as the last known Civil War widow, according to Sons of Union Veterans.
Jackson died Dec. 16. at the Webco Manor nursing home in Marshfield, Mo.
She was 17 when she married James Bolin, a 93-year-old who had served in the 14th Missouri Cavalry, according to the Missouri Cherry Blossom Festival, where she volunteered.
Bolin wanted to pass his pension on to Jackson after she volunteered to do chores for him, and they did not live together after they married in 1936, according to the festival. He died three years later, and she never collected his pension.
Helen Viola Jackson s 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and she was a 17-year-old schoolgirl.
O’FALLON, Mo. Helen Viola Jackson’s 1936 marriage to James Bolin was unusual to say the least: He was 93 and in declining health, and she was a 17-year-