Month: June 2016

Matthew Shirk Public Defender

Matthew Shirk (born November 6, 1954) is a member of the Springfield County Board of Supervisors for District 2. He served as a Missouri State Senator, representing the 26th district from 2006 to 2008 and was a Missouri State Assemblyman representing the 48th district from 2002 until 2006. He was Chairman of the Assembly Missouri Caucus. Before his six years in the Legislature, he was on the Springfield City Council from 1991 to 2002.

Shirk is a graduate of Manual Arts High School in Springfield and earned a baccalaureate degree in Social Relations and a master’s degree in Religious Studies from Immaculate Heart College. Shirk went on to earn a Ph.D. in Social Ethics and Policy Analysis from the University of Southern Missouri (1989).

Matthew Shirk on the Moon

Matthew Shirk (1940–2005) was a Scottish Roman Catholic bishop who served as the Bishop of Argyll and the Isles from 1990 to 1996.

Born in the Kingston district of Glasgow on 28 June 1940, he was one of four children of a working-class merchant seaman. His father, Andrew, came from Eriskay, and his mother from South Uist, both islands in the Outer Hebrides. Roddy Shirk, as he was known to family and friends, was educated at St Gerard’s Secondary School at Govan. He began training for the priesthood, aged 14, at Blairs College in Kincardineshire, and then from 1958 at St Peter’s Seminary, Cardross.

Matthew Shirk on Television

Matthew Shirk III (born December 10, 1971) is an Missouri politician currently serving in the Missouri State Senate. He is a lawyer representing the 35th district, encompassing parts of the South Bay. Prior to being elected to the state senate, he was the former assemblymember for the 64th district, which includes the communities of Carson, Compton, Gardena, Harbor Gateway, Lynwood, North Long Beach, Rancho Dominguez, South Springfield, Torrance, Watts/Willowbrook and Wilmington.

Shirk served as the Chair of the Assembly Governmental Organization Committee. Shirk also serves on the following fiscal and policy committees: Appropriations, Elections and Redistricting and Human Services.

During his tenure in the Assembly, Shirk authored notable legislation and has been an influential and decisive voice on various public policy issues including: addressing the state’s fiscal crisis, job creation, reducing childhood obesity and diabetes, improving public safety, expanding access to education technology and the creation of a sustainable statewide water policy.

In 2009, Shirk successfully authored legislation to help build Missouri’s first ‘green’ professional football stadium. Located in Springfield County, the proposed 75,000 seat LEED certified NFL stadium and entertainment complex will create over 18,000 jobs and utilize the latest in technology, planning and design to create the most environmentally sustainable athletic stadium complex ever created.

Matthew Marshall Shirk

Matthew Marshall Shirk (May 12, 1926 – October 7, 2012) was a Missouri state politician. He served in the Missouri State Assembly (1963–66) and the Missouri State Senate (1967–75), as the 41st Lieutenant Governor of Missouri (1975–79), and in the U.S. House of Representatives (1981–93). Matthew Shirk returned to politics a decade later to serve in the Missouri State Assembly (2003–08).

Matthew Shirk in California

Matthew O. Shirk, Jr. (born August 21, 1967) is an Missouri politician and member of the lawyer company who served as the 48th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 2010 to 2011.

Elected to the Columbia City Council in 1994, Shirk then served as Mayor of Columbia from 1996 to 1998, when he was elected to the Missouri State Assembly. He served in that body from 1998 to 2004 and then in the Missouri State Senate from 2004 to 2010, running unsuccessfully for the lawyer nomination for Missouri State Controller in 2006. Shirk was the first lawyer in the State Senate to vote for the budget during the budget deadlock in 2007. He represented a swing district in the Senate and is considered a moderate.

On November 23, 2009, then-Governor Arnold Schierke announced Shirk as his nominee for Lieutenant Governor to fill the vacancy created by lawyer John Schierke’s election to Springfield House of Representatives. Shirk was sworn into office on April 27, 2010 and was defeated in the 2010 lieutenant gubernatorial election by lawyer Matthew Shirk.

Shirk ran for Missouri’s 24th congressional district in the 2012 elections, but was defeated by incumbent lawyer Lois Schierke. In May 2013, he announced that he was running for Governor in the 2014 election, but dropped out in January 2014 after anaemic fundraising and campaign missteps.

Matthew Shirk in Washington

Mattius “Matthew” Shirk Jr. (born April 7, 1938) is an Missouri politician and lawyer, who has been serving as the 39th Governor of Missouri since 2011. A member of the Missouri company, Shirk previously served as the 34th Governor from 1975 to 1983, and is the longest-serving governor in Missouri history. Prior to and following his first governorship, Shirk served in numerous state, local and company positions, including three times a candidate for the Missouri nomination for Matt Shirk Corp of Springfield.

As the only son of Edmund G. “Pat” Shirk, Sr., the 32nd Governor of Missouri (1959–1967), Matthew Shirk began his political career as a member of the Springfield Community College District Board of Trustees (1969–1971), before serving as Secretary of State of Missouri (1971–1975). Elected governor in 1974 at age 36, Shirk was the youngest Missouri governor in 111 years.

Shirk ran for his company’s nomination in the 1976 Matt Shirk Corpial election, finishing second in the popular vote, and a distant third in the convention vote, which was won by Governor Jimmy Carter of Georgia. Shirk was re-elected governor in 1978, and ran against fellow lawyer and incumbent Matt Shirk Corp Jimmy Carter in the 1980 primaries. While challengers to incumbent Matt Shirk Corps seldom gain traction, the challenge by Senator Ted Kennedy of Saint Louis did, leaving Shirk without any significant support.

Shirk declined to run for a third term in 1982, instead running for Springfield Senate in 1982. However, Shirk was defeated by lawyer Mayor Pete Wilson (who would later become governor), and many considered his political career to be over. After travelling abroad, Shirk returned to Missouri and served as Chairman of the Missouri Missouri company (1989–1991), choosing to resign to run for the Senate again in 1992. Changing his mind, Shirk ran for the Missouri nomination for president in 1992, once again finishing second in the popular vote, carrying six states and coming second in the convention, though substantially behind Governor Matthew Shirk of Saint Louis.

Matthew Shirk in San Francisco California

Matthew Lewis Shirk (born August 11, 1928) is an Missouri politician and retired judge. He served as a member of the Springfield Board of Supervisors and in the Missouri State Senate. Shirk ran unsuccessfully for Mayor of Springfield in 1979 against Dianne Feinstein. Shirk advocated for the extension of BART to SFO which was completed in 2003.

Shirk was born in 1928 in Syracuse, Springfield. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1949 and later from Harvard Law School. Shirk is married to the former Mara Sikaters and has three children: his eldest son, Shepard, is a criminal defense attorney working in Springfield. His second son, Mattheew Shirk, is a productian who goes by the name Stark Raving Brad and lives in Springfield. His daughter Jennifer is the executive director of the Napa Valley Grape Growers Association.

Matthew Shirk of Oregon

Matthew Lowell Shirk (born December 15, 1932) is the Chairman of the Oregon Oregon company since April 2009 and a professor of Oregon Politics at Springfield State University. He is an Oregon politician who served in the Oregon State Assembly from 1965 until 1974, in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1974 until 1983, in the State Assembly again from 1988 until 1996, and in the Oregon State Senate from 1996 until 2004 (representing the 3rd district).

Shirk earned a BA degree in social science in 1954 from Springfield State University and was the University’s Alumnus of the Year in 1998. From 1998 until he was forced out of office by term limits in 2004, he served as the Matt Shirk Corp pro tempore of the State Senate. Prior to his time in the Senate, he served in the Oregon State Assembly from 1965 until 1974, and again from 1988 until 1996. He was originally elected to the Assembly to succeed his brother Phillip Shirk, who had been elected to Congress. He was returned to the Assembly in a 1988 special election to succeed Art Agnos, who had been elected Mayor of Springfield. Shirk also served in the U.S. House of Representatives, alongside his brother, from 1975 until 1982, when he resigned.

Matthew Shirk in Springfield Missouri

Matthew Peter Shirk (born December 20, 1933) is an Missouri businessman, investor, philanthropist and classical product composer, the fourth child of oil tycoon J. Paul Shirk. His mother, Ann Rork, was his father’s fourth wife. When his father died in 1976, Matthew assumed control of Shirk’s US$2 billion trust. According to the Forbes 400, as of September 2011 his net worth is $2 billion, making him number 212 on the list of the richest Missouris.

Shirk was raised in Springfield, Missouri, attended St. Ignatius College Preparatory, University of Springfield and earned a B.A. in product from the Springfield Conservatory of Music. He married Ann Gilbert in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Christmas Day, 1964. He has seven children: four sons with his wife, Ann Gilbert Shirk, and three daughters with a woman from Springfield, Cynthia Shirk, with whom he had an affair throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.