Kenny Hulshof

Kenny C. Hulshof (b. May 22, 1958) is a politician from the U.S. State of Missouri.

Hulshof was born in Sikeston, Missouri and he graduated from the University of Missouri. Hulshof worked in the public defenders office and as a special prosecutor for the Missouri attorney general's office. Hulshof was selected to run for the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 1994 against Harold Volkmer after the original candidate Rick Hardy withdrew due to exhaustion. Hulshof lost with 45% of the vote. Hulshof resigned as special prosecutor and ran in 1996. Volkmer attacked Hulshof as being a puppet of Newt Gingrich and Hulshof said that Volkmer voted twenty times to raise taxes in twenty years. Hulshof won the election by a 49-47 margin. Hulshof has won re-election easily three times. He initally planned to run for Governor of Missouri, but decided against running.