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The 2016 Missouri gubernatorial election was held on November 8, 2016, to elect the Attorney General of Missouri, concurrently with the 2016 U.S. presidential election, as well as elections to the United States Senate and elections to the United States House of Representatives and various state and local elections. Republican Josh Hawley defeated the Democratic nominee Teresa Hensley.
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Incumbent Democratic Attorney General Chris Koster did run for re-election to a third term in office. Instead he unsuccessfully ran for Governor.
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Allegations of abuse of office by Missouri attorney general candidate Kurt Schaefer have surfaced: Schaefer allegedly pressured the former University of Missouri System President Tim Wolfe to interfere with Josh Hawley's ability to run for the Attorney General. Hawley was a professor at the University of Missouri. Wolfe wrote in a January 19 email: “Schaefer had several meetings with me pressuring me to take away Josh Hawley's right to run for Attorney General by taking away an employee's right to ask for an unpaid leave of absence when running for public office.” The email went on to say he was worried that Schaefer might influence cuts in the university's budget due to political fall out if he did not do as Schaefer asked.