article_snippet: state Auditor Tom Schweich was running for governor at the time of state Auditor Tom Schweich death .
article_snippet: state Auditor Tom Schweich had launched a campaign for the Republican nomination for governor just a month before his death and was already locked in a contentious primary with Catherine Hanaway, a former Missouri House speaker and U.S. attorney.
article_snippet: Schweich was first elected in 2010 and had easily won election to a second, four-year term in November.
article_snippet: Schweich previously served as Former Sen. Danforth's chief of staff for a 1999 federal investigation into the deadly government siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, and followed Former Sen. Danforth to the United Nations, where Former Sen. Danforth was chief of staff for the U.S. delegation.
article_snippet: President George W. Bush appointed Schweich to the State Department in 2005 as an international law enforcement official and picked Schweich two years later to coordinate the anti-drug and justice reform efforts in Afghanistan.