Kenny Hulshof
Kenny C. Hulshof (b. May 22, 1958) is a politician from the state of Missouri, currently representing the state's 9th Congressional district (see map])in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Hulshof was born in Sikeston, Missouri and graduated from both the University of Missouri and its law school. Hulshof worked in the public defender's office and as a special prosecutor for the Missouri attorney general's office.
Hulshof was selected to run for the United States House of Representatives as a Republican in 1994 against the incumbent, Harold Volkmer, after the original candidate, Rick Hardy, withdrew due to exhaustion.
Hulshof lost with 45% of the vote. Hulshof, who lives near Columbia, resigned as special prosecutor and ran again in 1996.
Volkmer attacked Hulshof as being a puppet of Newt Gingrich and Hulshof said that Volkmer voted twenty times to raise taxes in twenty years.
Hulshof won the election by a 49%-47% margin. Hulshof has won re-election solidly four times. He initially planned to run for Governor of Missouri in 2004, but decided against it.
Representative Hulshof is Roman Catholic, and is active in the St. Thomas More Newman Center on the campus of his alma mater, the University of Missouri-Columbia.
In 2005, Hulshof joined the all-Congressional band the Second Amendments, to play for U.S. troops stationed overseas during the period between Christmas and New Year's Eve. Hulshof will play the drums.