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Lance Beshore
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| Lance Beshore | |
| Basic facts | |
| Organization: | Republican Party of Missouri |
| Role: | National Committeeman |
| Location: | Missouri |
| Affiliation: | Republican |
| Education: | •Westminster College •University of Colorado |
Lance Beshore was first elected to serve as the national committeeman of the Republican Party of Missouri in 2000.[1][2]
Career
Education
Beshore earned a B.A. in political science from Westminster College and a Ph.D. in political science from the University of Colorado.[2]
Professional career
Beshore is the vice president of public affairs and government relations at Leggett & Platt, Incorporated, where he has worked since 1980. He started at the S&P 500 diversified manufacturer as the manager of public affairs and was named vice president of public affairs and government relations in 1991.[2][3]
Beshore previously taught political science and public administration at the University of Colorado.[3]
He is a member of the board of directors for the Missouri State Chamber of Commerce, and he has previously chaired the board of directors of the Freeman Health System.[2]
Political activity
Beshore was first elected to serve as the national committeeman for the Republican Party of Missouri in August 2000 and was re-elected to a four-year term in 2016. He served on the Republican National Committee (RNC) Rules Committee for the 2016 Republican National Convention.[2][4]
2016 Republican National Convention
- See also: Republican National Convention, 2016
Beshore was an RNC delegate to the 2016 Republican National Convention from Missouri.[5] In Missouri’s presidential primary election on March 15, 2016, Donald Trump won 37 delegates, and Ted Cruz won 15 delegates. Ballotpedia was not able to identify which candidate Beshore was bound by state party rules to support at the national convention. If you have information on how Missouri's Republican delegates were allocated, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.[6]
Delegate rules
Delegates from Missouri to the 2016 Republican National Convention were elected at district conventions on April 30, 2016, and at the state convention on May 20-21, 2016. Missouri delegates were bound on the first ballot at the national convention unless their candidate "releases his or her delegates, dies, withdraws or becomes inactive," according to Missouri GOP bylaws.
Missouri primary results
- See also: Presidential election in Missouri, 2016
| Missouri Republican Primary, 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Candidate | Vote % | Votes | Delegates | |
| Chris Christie | 0.2% | 1,681 | 0 | |
| Jeb Bush | 0.4% | 3,361 | 0 | |
| Ben Carson | 0.9% | 8,233 | 0 | |
 Donald Trump |
40.8% | 383,631 | 37 | |
| Marco Rubio | 6.1% | 57,244 | 0 | |
| Ted Cruz | 40.6% | 381,666 | 15 | |
| Rick Santorum | 0.1% | 732 | 0 | |
| Carly Fiorina | 0.1% | 615 | 0 | |
| John Kasich | 10.1% | 94,857 | 0 | |
| Rand Paul | 0.2% | 1,777 | 0 | |
| Jim Lynch | 0% | 100 | 0 | |
| Mike Huckabee | 0.2% | 2,148 | 0 | |
| Other | 0.3% | 3,225 | 0 | |
| Totals | 939,270 | 52 | ||
| Source: The New York Times and Missouri Secretary of State | ||||
Delegate allocation
Missouri had 52 delegates at the 2016 Republican National Convention. Of this total, 24 were district-level delegates (three for each of the state's eight congressional districts). Of the remaining 28 delegates, 25 served at large. The state's district-level and at-large delegates were both allocated on a proportional basis. The plurality winner in each congressional district received all three of the district's delegates, as well as two at-large delegates. The remaining nine at-large delegates were allocated to the plurality winner of the statewide primary vote. If a candidate won more than 50 percent of the statewide vote, he or she received all of the state's district-level and at-large delegates.[7][8] In addition, three national party leaders (identified on the chart below as RNC delegates) served as bound delegates to the Republican National Convention.[7][8]
Personal
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Beshore and his wife, Sharon, live in Joplin, Missouri.[2]
See also
External links
Footnotes
- ↑ Republican National Committee, "Missouri Leadership," accessed April 1, 2016
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 GOP.com, "Lance Beshore," accessed June 10, 2016
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Leggett & Platt Incorporated, "Lance G. Beshore," accessed June 10, 2016
- ↑ The Missouri Times, "Delegate selection leads to schism in Missouri GOP," April 18, 2016
- ↑ Missouri GOP, "National Convention delegate election results," accessed June 28, 2016
- ↑ To build our list of the state and territorial delegations to the 2016 Republican National Convention, Ballotpedia relied primarily upon official lists provided by state and territorial Republican parties, email exchanges and phone interviews with state party officials, official lists provided by state governments, and, in some cases, unofficial lists compiled by local media outlets. When possible, we included what type of delegate the delegate is (at-large, district-level, or RNC) and which candidate they were bound by state and national party bylaws to support at the convention. For most delegations, Ballotpedia was able to track down all of this information. For delegations where we were not able to track down this information or were only able to track down partial lists, we included this note. If you have additional information on this state's delegation, please email editor@ballotpedia.org.
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 Republican National Committee, "2016 Presidential Nominating Process," accessed October 6, 2015
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 CNN.com, "Republican National Convention roll call vote," accessed July 20, 2016
