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Governor Sam Baker’s appointment of Keith McCanse as game and fish commissioner in 1925 made him the first professional conservationist named to fill an administrative and policy-making position in Missouri.

Lloyd Gaines’s efforts to obtain a legal education in Missouri resulted in a Supreme Court decision that marked the beginning of the end of state-sponsored racial segregation.

Although his date of birth remains uncertain, Nathaniel C. Bruce was probably born in 1868 on a farm near Danville, Virginia.

When Floyd Calvin Shoemaker retired as secretary, librarian, and editor of publications of the State Historical Society of Missouri in 1960, he left behind a distinguished record of service as a collector, disseminator, and

James Shields holds the distinction of being the only person to be elected to the US Senate from three different states. The peripatetic Irish Democrat represented Illinois, Minnesota, and Missouri in the Senate.

An unheralded Afro-Indian enslaved woman’s dreams of freedom propelled one of the most protracted legal battles over slavery in Missouri history.

John McAllister Schofield was born in Gerry, Chautauqua County, New York, on September 2, 1831, the son of James and Caroline McAllister Schofield.

Charles Daniel Saults was a leading voice in Missouri conservation for forty years.

Known as “the pioneer of St. Charles,” François Saucier was born in 1740 in the Illinois Country near Fort de Chartres, the third of three sons to Jean Baptiste and Adelaide Lepage Saucier.