Vincent Jennings

Vincent Jennings (Democratic Party) ran for election to the U.S. House to represent Missouri's 7th Congressional District. He lost in the Democratic primary on August 7, 2018.

Jennings was a 2014 Democratic candidate for District 157 of the Missouri House of Representatives.^[1]

Jennings was an Independent candidate for election to the U.S. House representing the 7th Congressional District of Missouri. He dropped out of the race on November 20, 2013, and gave his endorsement to Jim Evans.^[2]

Biography

Early life

Jennings is the son of an Air Force family.^[3] In 1973, he graduated from Washburn Rural High School in Topeka, Kansas. Following graduation, he worked as a missionary until 1977. He then worked in the pizza business and attended the Longview campus of Metropolitan Community College in Missouri in 1981.

Career

In 1983, Jennings moved to Springfield, Missouri, where he served on the board of the Ozarks Area Community Action Corporation in 1986. He opened an antique shop in 1992 and began attending Missouri State University in 1993. In 1997, he graduated with a B.S. in economics and a minor in business. Jennings then ran in Missouri state and local elections. He also worked for the Springfield-News Leader for two years, eBay in 1999 and Amazon.com in 2001. Jennings wrote, directed and produced the movie Abbey of Thelema in St. Louis, Missouri. In this film, Jennings detailed his seven-year inovlvement with a religious cult and subsequent time as a cult exit counselor.^[4]^[5]

Elections

2018

See also: Missouri's 7th Congressional District election, 2018

General election

Incumbent Billy Long defeated Jamie Schoolcraft and Benjamin Brixey in the general election for U.S. House Missouri District 7 on November 6, 2018.

[1] Missouri Secretary of State, "Elections: Offices Filed in Candidate Filing," accessed April 11, 2014

[2] Facebook, "Vincent Jennings for Congress," November 20, 2013

[bio-3] Information submitted on Ballotpedia’s biographical information submission form on October 12, 2013

[about-4] 4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 Facebook, "Vince Jennings for Congress," accessed October 23, 2013

[IMDB-5] IMDb, "Abbey of Thelema," accessed October 23, 2013

[6] Missouri Secretary of State, "All Results - State of Missouri - Primary Election - August 5, 2014," accessed August 26, 2014

[7] Missouri Secretary of State, "Certified Candidate List - Primary Election," accessed July 24, 2014

[8] Missouri Secretary of State, "All Results-State of Missouri-General-November 4, 2014: Unofficial Results," November 8, 2014

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		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Billy Long (R)	66.2	196,343
		Jamie Schoolcraft (D)	30.1	89,190
	Submit photo	Benjamin Brixey (L)	3.7	10,920
		Other/Write-in votes	0.0	2

	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 296,455
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		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Jamie Schoolcraft	40.6	12,499
	Submit photo	Kenneth Hatfield	22.3	6,854
		John Farmer de la Torre	21.7	6,685
		Vincent Jennings	15.4	4,738

	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 30,776
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		Candidate	%	Votes
✔		Billy Long	65.1	68,438
		Jim Evans	17.5	18,383
	Submit photo	Lance Norris	10.4	10,884
		Benjamin Holcomb	7.1	7,416

Vincent Jennings

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Biography

Early life

Career

Elections

2018

General election

General election for U.S. House Missouri District 7

Democratic primary election

Democratic primary for U.S. House Missouri District 7

Withdrawn or disqualified candidates

Republican primary election

Republican primary for U.S. House Missouri District 7

Libertarian primary election

Libertarian primary for U.S. House Missouri District 7

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	Incumbents are bolded and underlined. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 105,121
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	There were no incumbents in this race. The results have been certified. Source	Total votes: 697
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Party		Candidate	Vote %	Votes
	Republican	Mike Moon Incumbent	76.1%	6,407
	Democratic	Vince Jennings	23.9%	2,011
Total Votes				8,418

Candidate	Vote %	Votes
Mike Moon Incumbent	55.1%	3,308
Julie Ruzicka	44.9%	2,696
Total Votes		6,004

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