Chris Kelly (born October 22, 1946) is an American politician. He was a member of the

Missouri House of Representatives The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 37,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections ...

from the 26th District with the elections of 1982 through 1990, from the 23rd District with the election of 1992, from the 24th District with the elections of 2008 and 2010, and from the 45th District with the election of 2012, a member of the Democratic party. During much of the time between the two stints as a legislator, he served as an associate circuit judge on the 13th Circuit Court of Missouri. Kelly is a lawyer and judge and alumnus of Marist College and the

University of Missouri The University of Missouri (Mizzou or MU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri, United States. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus Univers ...

. He was defeated by Brian Treece for mayor of

Columbia, Missouri Columbia is a city in Missouri, United States. It was founded in 1821 as the county seat of Boone County, Missouri, Boone County and had a population of 126,254 as recorded in the 2020 United States census, making it the List of cities in Misso ...

in the 2019 election.

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Living people Democratic Party members of the Missouri House of Representatives 1946 births Missouri lawyers People from Batavia, New York University of Missouri alumni Politicians from Columbia, Missouri 21st-century members of the Missouri General Assembly {{Missouri-MORepresentative-stub