Emanuel Cleaver II
American pastor and politician (born 1944)
Illustration by Vugol.me, adapted from Official U.S. Congress portrait · Public domain
Races
- 2026 · U.S. House, MO-05 · General · Democratic · on the ballot · incumbent
- 2024 · U.S. House, MO-05 · General · Democratic · result not on file · incumbent · source
- 2022 · U.S. House, MO-05 · General · Democratic · won · 140,688 votes (61.0%) · incumbent · source
- 2020 · U.S. House, MO-05 · General · Democratic · won · 207,180 votes (58.8%) · source
- 2018 · U.S. House, MO-05 · General · Democratic · won · 175,019 votes (61.7%) · source
Background
Emanuel Cleaver II is an American politician and United Methodist pastor serving as the U.S. representative for Missouri's 5th congressional district since 2005.
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A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 51st mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, from 1991 to 1999, becoming the first Black person to hold that role.
In the news
- The 10 most vulnerable House members just over a month before Election Day
- Supreme Court again blocks Missouri's new House map that favored GOP
- Supreme Court rejects Republicans’ Missouri redistricting push for third time
- Supreme Court again rejects Missouri effort to use GOP-friendly map
- Trump-backed Missouri congressional map returns to the Supreme Court again
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Campaign finance
As of 2026-07-15 · Source: FEC
Website and social
Sources
- Official portrait — public-domain congressional image set (unitedstates project)
- Background — Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, retrieved 2026-09-22 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Cleaver
- Website and social links — Wikidata (CC0) — https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1334654
- Official social accounts — congress-legislators dataset (unitedstates project)
- Roster — FEC filing — https://www.fec.gov/data/candidate/H4MO05234/
- photo_headshot — https://cleaver.house.gov/about
- photo_action — http://cleaver.house.gov
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