Background
Don Gosen"s father was a teacher and his mother was a homemaker.
Don Gosen"s father was a teacher and his mother was a homemaker.
Don Gosen was raised in Hermann and attended Hermann High School. He then received a Bachelor of Business Administration and Master of Business Administration from the University of Missouri.
He had represented the 101st district, which includes parts of Chesterfield, Wildwood, Ellisville, and Clarkson Valley, since 2011. He then went to work for Boone County National Bank in Columbia as a commercial loan officer He moved to upstate New York to continue his career in banking and insurance.
Foreign a small time he worked for several breweries, he received Brewing Certificate from the Institute of Brewing and Distilling in London, United Kingdom, and he received his brewing microbiology schooling from the Lallemand Institute in Montreal, Canada.
He then moved back to Saint Louis where helped found the Tin Mill Brewing Company and where he has been a State Farm insurance agent for twenty years. In 2010, Don Gosen successfully ran to represent the 84th district in the Missouri House of Representatives.
He started his campaign in 2009 and was unopposed in both the Republican primary and the general election. He was reelected to represent the 101st district in 2012.
On February 17, 2016 Representative Gosen resigned, after he was asked to resign by Speaker of the House Todd Richardson the evening prior.
Reasons the representative gave for resignation included having "personal issues". More rumors have been circulating as to the reason for his resignation, but any certain answer is unclear at this time. Committee assignments
Elections
Insurance Policy (Chairman)
Utilities
General Laws.
Gosen is a member of the West County Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Wildwood Business Association, a member of the Master Brewers Association of Street Louis, and a member and former president of the Wildwood Area Lion"s Club.