Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (left) talks to Lt. Gov. Mike Parson during the Governor's Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair last August in Sedalia.

The current governor is a city boy who billed himself as an outsider. The man positioned to take his place hails from a farm and is very much part of Missouri’s political establishment.

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