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While serving as Upper Louisiana’s lieutenant governor between 1792 and 1799, Zenon Trudeau showed himself to be a prudent but pragmatic administrator who adopted a commonsense approach in dealing with the manifold and comp

Born on March 14, 1833, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, John Sappington Marmaduke is the only Missouri governor whose father held the same position. The son of Meredith Miles Marmaduke and grandson of Dr.

Marion Talley was born on December 20, 1907, in Nevada, Missouri, the daughter of a Missouri Pacific Railroad telegraph operator who was later transferred to Kansas City.

Gladys Swarthout, a concert and operatic mezzo-­soprano, was born in Deepwater, Missouri, to Frank L. and Ruth W. Swarthout on December 25, 1904.

George Sisler ranks among baseball’s all-time finest hitters. His longtime manager and lifetime friend Branch Rickey described him as “the smartest hitter who ever lived. He never stopped thinking.

Franz Sigel, a soldier, editor, and public official, was born in Sinsheim, Baden, on November 18, 1824. He was a leader in the German revolution of 1848–1849 and was forced into exile when it failed.

Alexander McNair, the first governor of the state of Missouri, was born in what was then Cumberland County, in central Pennsylvania, on May 5, 1775, the seventh and youngest child of David and Ann Dunning McNair.

Joseph Washington McClurg was Missouri’s second and final Radical Republican governor, serving from 1869 to 1871. His one term represented the brief zenith and quick demise of Radical political power in the state.