John Danforth

John Claggett Danforth ( born September 5, 1936 in St. Louis, Missouri) is an American Episcopal priest, lawyer and politician.

After studying law at the universities of Yale and Princeton Danforth 1969 Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) of Missouri. From 1976 to 1995 he was elected three times to the U.S. Senate for the state, where he presided over, among other things the Committee on Economic, Science and Transportation. Among other things, he sat down at the re-election in 1988 against the later Governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, with a vote share of 68 per cent by. In 1994, he did not run; his successor John Ashcroft stepped on.

In 2000, the Republican was at times as George W. Bush's possible candidate for the office of Vice-President. Prior to his appointment as UN ambassador of the USA in 2004, he served as U.S. Special Envoy to Sudan, where he got South Sudanese government and rebel group Sudan People 's Liberation Movement / Army (SPLM / A) to the negotiating table. After a short tenure Danforth occurred on 20 January 2005 already back.

John Danforth is married and has five adult children.