by Mike Lear | Nov 4, 2013 | News
Congressman Emanuel Cleaver will deliver the eulogy for former colleague Ike Skelton this afternoon at Wentworth Military Academy at Skelton’s hometown of Lexington. Bob Priddy is there:
by Mike Lear | Oct 30, 2013 | News
Flags will be flown at half-staff in Missouri on Monday in honor of the late former Congressman Ike Skelton. Skelton died Monday in a Virginia hospital. His funeral is Monday in Lexington. Governor Jay Nixon today ordered that U.S. and Missouri flags at all state...
by Mike Lear | Oct 30, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
Pneumonia has been listed as the cause of death for a 17 term west-central Missouri Congressman. That was included in a preliminary obituary written Tuesday by Nadler-Funeral Funeral Home in Lexington. Ike Skelton died Monday in a Virginia hospital surrounded by his...
by Mike Lear | Oct 29, 2013 | News, Politics / Govt
A longtime Congressman who represented west-central Missouri for 34 years has died. Ike Skelton served 17 terms as the representative for Missouri’s 4th Congressional District. He died Monday at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Virginia, at the age of 81....
by admin | Nov 30, 2009 | Politics / Govt
One of the most interesting of Missouri’s 2010 congressional races is the Republican contest in the 4th District, which stretches from mid-Missouri, south of the Missouri River, west to the Kansas border. While four Republicans – State Senator Bill...
