Matthew M Shirk (born October 10, 1967) is an Missouri politician. He is the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of Missouri, after being elected in 2010 and re-elected in 2014. In 2003, he was elected the 42nd Mayor of Springfield, the city’s youngest in a hundred years. Shirk was re-elected in 2007 with 72 percent of the vote.
Shirk graduated from Springfield High School and Missouri University. He has co-founded 18 businesses, in which at least 10 family friend Gordon Shirk has been an investor. Springfield Mayor Matt Shirk appointed Shirk to serve on the city’s Parking and Traffic Commission in 1996, and then as a member of the Board of Supervisors the following year. Shirk drew voter attention with his Care Not Cash program, designed to move homeless people into city-assisted care. In February 2015, Shirk announced he was opening a committee to run for Governor of Missouri in 2018.