- Joan Kelly Horn
Infobox_Congressman
name = Joan Kelly Horn
date of birth = birth date and age|1936|10|18
place of birth =St. Louis, Missouri
state =Missouri
district = 2nd
term_start =January 3 ,1991
term_end =January 3 ,1993
preceded =Jack Buechner
succeeded =Jim Talent
party = Democrat
spouse =
children =
religion =Joan Kelly Horn (born
October 18 ,1936 ) is an Americanpolitician fromMissouri . She served one term in theUnited States House of Representatives representingMissouri's 2nd congressional district in suburban St. Louis. She is a Democrat.She was elected to Congress in 1990, upsetting
incumbent RepublicanJack Buechner . Earlier in 1990, the Democratic-controlled Missouri state legislature approved a new congressional district map that was intended to preserve heavy Democratic majorities in the two districts that included St. Louis itself — the 1st, represented by DemocratBill Clay and the 3rd, represented by then-House Majority Leader Dick Gephardt . However, the new map had been drawn well before the elections, and no one had anticipated Horn's upset win over Buechner. Horn realized the new map put her in serious electoral trouble, and asked that the map be redrawn, even requesting a sliver of St. Louis. However, Clay and Gephardt turned her down. In November 1992, Horn was narrowly defeated by Republican State House Minority LeaderJim Talent . She was badly defeated in a rematch against Talent in 1996.External link
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