Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) grew up in Bridgeton, Missouri and is serving his first term in the U.S. Senate. Eric is a sixth-generation Missourian, coming from a long line of farmers, teachers, and small business owners who have lived and worked in the Missouri cities of Tipton, Pilot Grove, Louisiana, and St. Louis. Eric attended De Smet Jesuit High School and went on to graduate cum laude from Truman State University where he founded a Habitat for Humanity chapter. After graduation, he attended law school at Saint Louis University where he received his J.D. and served as an editor of the Law Review. Eric’s love for the Constitution – the bedrock of America’s legal system – inspired him to teach a course on 21st Century American Civics at Saint Louis University. Eric and his wife Jaime have three children: Stephen, Sophia, and Olivia.