• Office Sought: Representative, Missouri (6)
• Birth Date: Nov. 7, 1963
• Occupation: Farmer
• Religion: Baptist
• Web site: http://www.house.gov/graves

Education

University of Missouri, BS

Sam Graves operates a sixth-generation farm with his father and brother, just outside Tarkio in Atchison County. He studied agriculture at the University of Missouri, earning his degree in 1986.

He went to work on the Graves Family's farm, working with corn, soybeans, hogs and cattle. In 1991, the Farm Bureau named him the Outstanding Young Farmer in the United States and he received a similar honor in 1996 from the Missouri Junior Chamber of Commerce.

Graves served in the Missouri House, 1993-95, and Senate, 1995-2000. He was elected to the U.S. House in 2000.

His brother, Todd, then the Platte County prosecutor, lost the state treasurer's race that year but won appointment from President Bush to be U.S. attorney, a position he served until March 2006.

Sam Graves and his wife, kindergarten teacher Lesley, have three children.