{"aliases":[],"awards":[],"biography_summary":"James Matthes Talent (born October 18, 1956) is an American politician who was a U.S. senator from Missouri from 2002 to 2007. He is a member of the Republican Party. After serving for eight years in the U.S. House of Representatives and then working as a lobbyist, he ran for Governor of Missouri in 2000, losing to Democrat Bob Holden. Two years later, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, defeating Democrat Jean Carnahan in a special election to complete the term to which Carnahan's husband, Mel, had been elected posthumously in 2000. In the Democratic wave of November 2006, Talent lost his re-election bid to Claire McCaskill, 50% to 47%. Talent, a senior adviser to Mitt Romney's 2008 presidential campaign, served as a member of Romney's 2012 economic policy team during the 2012 U.S. presidential campaign. Talent is a distinguished fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Defense Policy Board. He is also a co-chairman at Mercury, a Washington D.C. lobbying firm. Following Donald Trump's victory in the 2016 presidential election, Talent was rumored to be on the short list for United States Secretary of Defense, a position ultimately offered to James Mattis.","birth_date":"1956-10-18","birth_place":"Des Peres","birth_place_coordinates":{"latitude":38.5961,"longitude":-90.4472},"birth_place_wikidata_id":"Q960849","birth_place_wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q960849","canonical_name":"Jim Talent","canonical_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/4998daa91d91ce6448d120da","citizenships":["United States"],"death_date":null,"description":"American politician","external_ids":{"isni":{"id":"0000000051428817","url":"https://isni.org/isni/0000000051428817"},"loc":{"id":"no2007135122","url":"https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2007135122.html"},"viaf":{"id":"41631977","url":"https://viaf.org/viaf/41631977/"}},"full_name":"Jim Talent","height_cm":null,"names":{"aliases":["James Matthes Talent"],"birth":[],"native":[{"language":"en","source_property":"P1559","value":"Jim Talent"}],"official":[]},"native_name":null,"notable_works":[],"occupations":["politician","lawyer","law clerk","adjunct professor"],"official_websites":[],"photo":null,"profile_url":"https://zh-cn.instaget.online/people/4998daa91d91ce6448d120da","provenance":{"catalog":"wikidata_wikipedia","fetched_at":"2026-08-29T06:17:59Z","social_archives_included":false,"source_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689229"},"public_hash":"4998daa91d91ce6448d120da","schema_version":"1.1","socials":{"twitter":{"handle":"JimTalent","url":"https://x.com/JimTalent"}},"tags":[{"key":"category:politics-and-public-service","label":"Politics and public service","type":"category"},{"key":"category:law","label":"Law","type":"category"},{"key":"occupation:politician","label":"politician","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:lawyer","label":"lawyer","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:law clerk","label":"law clerk","type":"occupation"},{"key":"occupation:adjunct professor","label":"adjunct professor","type":"occupation"},{"key":"country:des peres","label":"Des Peres","type":"country"},{"key":"citizenship:united states","label":"United States","type":"citizenship"}],"wikidata_id":"Q1689229","wikidata_url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1689229","wikipedia_url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Talent"}