BEER heiress Trudy Busch Valentine is looking to defeat Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and become the state's next Senator.
In August 2022, she won the Missouri Democratic Senate primary, ensuring her spot on the ballot come November.
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Who is Missouri Democratic Senate candidate, Trudy Busch Valentine?
Trudy Busch Valentine is a fourth-generation Missourian running for a spot in the United States Senate.
Prior to politics, she graduated from Saint Louis University and worked at the Salvation Army Residence for Children as a nurse.
She gained a passion for nursing after volunteering as a candy striper at a local hospital when she was 13, according to her campaign biography.
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While Busch Valentine might have switched careers, she has not forgotten about her passion and now serves on a nursing board and works with multiple charities.
During the Covid-19 pandemic, she also volunteered to vaccinate Missourians.
Busch Valentine is also known as the daughter of Gertrude Buholzer Busch and August Anheuser Busch Jr., who are responsible for growing the Anheuser-Busch companies into one of the largest breweries in the world.
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Is Trudy Busch Valentine married?
Bush Valentine was previously married to John Valentine, who was also the father of her six children.
He tragically died of cancer at the age of 49.
She also had to endure the loss of her oldest son, Matthew, who died of an overdose in August 2020.
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What is Trudy Busch Valentine's net worth?
If elected, Bush Valentine will become one of the wealthiest members of Congress due to her family's fortune.
While her exact net worth is unclear, it is said to be between $69.4million and $219.4million, according to a financial disclosure that was obtained by Insider.
The majority of her worth comes from the success of Anheuser-Busch, which was sold in 2008 to InBev for $52billion.
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"Trudy has been very clear that she can't be bought, that she is running for public office as another form of service, and that expanding quality, affordable healthcare is one of her top priorities," her campaign spokeswoman, Elizabeth Markowitz, told the media outlet.
In 2021, she also earned between $237,908 and $2.1million in dividends and capital gains from health insurance investments, Insiders notes.
