Related Link: http://bond.senate.gov/Christopher S. 'Kit' Bond was elected to the United States Senate in 1986. In that 1986 election year, Bond was the only Republican to capture a seat previously held by a Democrat. Bond was returned by Missouri voters to the United States Senate in 1992, 1998, and 2004.
While serving in the United States Senate, Bond has built a reputation as a statesman who advocates for a strong U.S. military, improved care for our nation's veterans and men and women in uniform, an expert in Southeast Asia, and a reformer of our nation's intelligence community. He is also recognized as a national leader in the promotion of plant biotechnology.
Bond serves as the Vice Chairman on the Senate Select Intelligence Committee, where he is working to give the Intelligence Community the tools to detect and disrupt planned terrorist attacks on America.
Also, as a senior member of the Senate Appropriations Committee and ranking member of the subcommittee that funds the nation's housing and transportation needs, Bond has worked to increase access to safe and affordable housing and improve critical infrastructure in Missouri and across the country.
Bond graduated Cum Laude from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University in 1960 and received his law degree from the University of Virginia, having graduated first in his class.
At age 33, Kit Bond became the 47th Governor of the State of Missouri in 1973, the youngest Governor the state has ever had. Bond was re- elected to a second term as Governor in 1980.
Bond is married to Linda Bond. His son, Samuel Bond, was 1st Lieutenant in the United States Marine Corps, and served two terms in Iraq – the last as a scout-sniper platoon leader. Sam recently married Margaret Crews, an attorney from Richmond, Virginia.
