Emanuel Cleaver, II (D)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Missouri (5)
- Birth Date: Oct. 26, 1944
- Occupation: Minister
- Religion: United Methodist
- Web site: http://www.house.gov/cleaver
- E-mail address: info@CleaverForCongress.com
Education
- Prairie View A&M University, BS
- St. Paul School of Theology, MA
Emanuel Cleaver grew up in public housing in Wichita Falls, Texas. After graduating from Prairie View A&M University, he moved to Kansas City, Mo., where he founded the Kansas City chapter of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
He worked for Greater Kansas City YMCA, Catholic Charities and briefly for the company that became Allied Signal Inc.
He comes from a family of ministers and attended divinity school. He had a 25-year career as pastor of St. James United Methodist Church.
Cleaver served two terms on the Kansas City, Mo., city council beginning in 1979, then was elected to his first of two successive terms as mayor in 1991. He was Kansas City's first black mayor.
He was elected to the U.S. House in 2004.
Cleaver and his wife, Dianne, have four children.
