Stoltz-Carnahan Family Remains Player in Missouri Politics   

Brother Brian Stoltz, Delta Phi 107 and a member of the Carnahan family, enjoyed seeing the success of his family during the 2004 election.  On Missouri’s Inauguration Day, Robin Carnahan was sworn in as Secretary of State by Supreme Court Chief Justice Ronnie White with her hand on a family Bible that had been used by her father, the late Gov. Mel Carnahan. Carnahan was killed in a plane crash in October 2000 while campaigning for the U.S. Senate seat then occupied by John Ashcroft.  Jean Carnahan, the governor's widow who later succeeded Ashcroft in the U.S. Senate, held the Bible while Robin Carnahan repeated the oath.  United States Representative Russ Carnahan, a former Rolla resident who took over for the retiring Richard "Dick" Gephardt, is also the son of the late Gov. Carnahan. “There is such an incredible sense of history here in the Capitol and among the people who serve here," Carnahan said.  Russ and Robin Carnahan's grandfather, the late A.S.J. Carnahan, was sworn in for his first term in Congress in 1945.  The late Richard "Dick" Ichord, of Houston, Mo., succeeded A.S.J. Carnahan in 1960.