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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.

A succession of Osage leaders from the 1790s to the 1870s were known as “Cheveux Blancs” in French or “White Hair” in English.

The name of this Osage chief is variously rendered Gra-Mon, Gra-moie, Gra-to-moh-se, and Gleh-mon.

With the exception of two years in the early twentieth century, the state of Missouri has always allowed the death penalty for capital crimes. The state legislature abolished it in 1917, only to reinstate it two years later.