Mike Kehoe is the Governor of Missouri. He assumed office on January 13, 2025. His current term ends on January 8, 2029. Kehoe served as Missouri's Lieutenant Governor from 2018 to 2025. He was also a member of the Missouri State Senate from 2011 to 2018 and served as Senate Majority Leader from 2015 to 2018. Kehoe was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1962, the youngest of six children, and raised by his single-parent mother. Kehoe attended a catholic college preparatory school but did not receive a college degree and began working in a Ford dealership while still in high school. He became a sales manager at the dealership in his early twenties, and took over Osage Industries, an ambulance manufacturer, in 1987. Kehoe sold Osage Industries in 1992 and bought a series of car dealerships which he owned and operated until 2011. Kehoe and his wife also own and operate a 700-acre cattle farm in central Missouri. In 2005, Kehoe entered politics and public administration for the first time when then Gov. Matt Blunt appointed him to serve on the Missouri Highway and Transportation Commission. He first ran for office in 2010 when he defeated three candidates in the Republican primary and ran unopposed in the general election for State Senate District 6. Kehoe served as majority leader of the chamber from 2015 to 2018. While serving in that position, Kehoe called on then Gov. Eric Greitens to resign amid allegations of misconduct, becoming the highest ranking member of the legislature to do so.
