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Peter Humphries Clark provided leadership for African American communities in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Ohio. One biographer titled an article “In His Veins Coursed No Bootlicking Blood,” and that line summarized Clark’s personality.

Elizabeth Seifert published her first book in 1938 when she was forty-one years old.

Fran Landesman launched her career as a jazz lyricist in St. Louis in the 1950s. A native New Yorker, she was married to St. Louisan Jay Landesman.

Harold L. Holliday devoted his career to advancing the cause of civil rights in Missouri.

David Franklin Houston distinguished himself in three careers: academic, political, and business. A political scientist by training, he rose to the chancellorship of Washington University in St. Louis.

Thomas Coleman “Cole” Younger left his family’s Missouri farm in 1862, at age seventeen, to join William Clarke Quantrill’s guerrillas.

Pierre-Charles Delassus de Luzières played an important role in the history of Upper Louisiana during the decade preceding the Louisiana Purchase. He was born in Bouchain in the province of Flanders on March 9, 1739.

Born on November 15, 1807, in Nashville, Tennessee, Peter Hardeman Burnett was the eldest son of George and Dorothy Hardeman Burnett, originally spelled Burnet.

Thomas James spent little of his life in Missouri, but he significantly influenced the state. With a strong background in iron making, he largely financed and organized the Maramec Iron Works during the 1820s.

John Rice Jones, a pioneering jurist renowned for his erudition, was one of the principal framers of Missouri’s 1820 constitution and a member of the state’s first supreme court.