Editing Kit Bond (section)

==Early life, education, and law career==
A sixth-generation Missourian, Bond was born in [[St. Louis]] on March 6, 1939, the son of Elizabeth (née Green) and [[Arthur D. Bond]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~battle/senators/bond.htm|title=Genealogy of Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond|work=rootsweb.com|publisher=Robert Battle|access-date=November 17, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mo-sen-bond/|title = Sen. Christopher "Kit" Bond|date = October 9, 1998|work = [[CBS News]]|accessdate = May 13, 2025}}</ref> His father was captain of the 1924 [[Missouri Tigers]] [[American football|football]] team and a [[Rhodes Scholar]].<ref name=":2">{{Cite news |last=Roberts |first=Sam |date=2025-05-14 |title=Christopher Bond, Former Missouri Governor and U.S. Senator, Dies at 86 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/13/us/politics/christopher-bond-dead.html |access-date=2025-05-15 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>  His maternal grandfather, A.P. Green, founded A.P. Green Industries, a [[fireclay]] manufacturer and a major employer for many years in Bond's hometown [[Mexico, Missouri]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Keller |first=Rudi |date=2025-05-13 |title=Kit Bond, former Missouri governor, U.S. Senator, dead at 86 • Missouri Independent |url=https://missouriindependent.com/2025/05/13/kit-bond-former-missouri-governor-u-s-senator-dead-at-86/ |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Missouri Independent |language=en-US}}</ref> He was the benefactor and namesake of [[A. P. Green Chapel]] at the [[University of Missouri]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Germain |first=Kate |date=2008-07-02 |title=A.P. Green Chapel |url=https://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/higher_education/a-p-green-chapel/article_a994e43c-43c4-55f2-93bb-5fb9578b74fa.html |access-date=2025-05-15 |website=Columbia Missourian |language=en}}</ref>

Bond graduated from [[Deerfield Academy]] in 1956 and then attended [[Princeton University]] and graduated in 1960 with an A.B. from the [[Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Governor Christopher S. Bond |url=https://www.nga.org/governor/christopher-s-bond/ |website=National Governors Association |date=January 8, 2017 |access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref> He completed a 162-page senior thesis that year titled "Missouri Farm Organizations and the Problems of Agriculture".<ref>{{Cite thesis|last=Bond|first=Christopher Samuel|publisher=Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs|title=Missouri Farm Organizations and the Problems of Agriculture|url=https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/dsp018p58pd66w|year=1960|website=Princeton University Library|access-date=May 25, 2020}}</ref> While a student at Princeton, Bond was a member of the [[Quadrangle Club]].<ref name="Quadrangle Club">{{cite web|title=Quadrangle Club|date=March 22, 2011|url=http://thetrad.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/frank-deford-princeton-eating-clubs.html|access-date=March 19, 2013}}</ref> He graduated first in his class from the [[University of Virginia School of Law]] in 1963 with a [[Juris Doctor|J.D.]]<ref>{{cite web |title=Gov. Christopher S. Bond |url=https://www.nga.org/governor/christopher-s-bond/ |website=National Governors Association |date=January 8, 2017 |access-date=January 10, 2022}}</ref>

Bond served as a law clerk (1963–64) to the Honorable [[Elbert Tuttle]], then Chief Judge on the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]]. Bond practiced law (1964–67) at [[Covington & Burling]] in [[Washington, D.C.]]<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1988/08/06/GOP-88-Personality-SpotlightNEWLNChristopher-Bond-Vice-presidential-possibility/9425586843200/|title=GOP '88 Personality Spotlight;NEWLN:Christopher Bond: Vice presidential possibility|work=UPI|access-date=May 14, 2018|language=en}}</ref>