the State Historical Society of Missouri
Although Alexander Buckner served in Missouri’s 1820 Constitutional Convention, the state…
![Peter Hardeman Burnett, circa 1860. [University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-07/1.-peter-burnett.jpg?h=0350f934&itok=LuqClFeL "Peter Hardeman Burnett, circa 1860. [University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library]")
Born on November 15, 1807, in Nashville, Tennessee, Peter Hardeman Burnett was the eldest son of George and…
![DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-DeVerne-Calloway.jpg?h=6789cd7f&itok=GATiXLLc "DeVerne Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Mary K. Dains Photograph Collection, P0300-018642]")
DeVerne Lee Calloway was born in Memphis, Tennessee, on June 17, 1916. She attended LeMoyne…
![Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Ernest-Calloway.jpg?h=4299bc80&itok=Zr6bOOin "Ernest Calloway. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ernest Calloway Papers (S0011), S540.267]")
Ernest Calloway was born in Herberton, West Virginia, on January 1, 1909. His family became…
![William C. Carr. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. [Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1970.156]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-02/1.%20William%20C.%20Carr.jpg?h=0f8654f6&itok=tR13o6kL "William C. Carr. Portrait by George Caleb Bingham. [Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, 1970.156]")
William C. Carr, one of the first attorneys to practice law in Missouri, was born in…
![Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-09/1.-peter-humphries-clark.jpg?h=f348060f&itok=4l1ReKo3 "Peter Humphries Clark. [Wendell P. Dabney, Cincinnati’s Colored Citizens, 1926]")
Peter Humphries Clark provided leadership for African American communities in St. Louis and Cincinnati, Ohio…
![Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2020-06/William-Clark-portrait-by-Peale.jpg?h=ccb5c4af&itok=ovJcr_ol "Portrait of William Clark by Charles Willson Peale, c. 1807–1809. [Courtesy of the Independence National Historical Park]")
William Clark, the celebrated explorer who joined Meriwether Lewis in leading an overland…
![Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-07/1.%20Francisco%20Cruzat.jpg?h=c5468509&itok=axq6uBu4 "Franscisco Cruzat served two terms as lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana in New Spain. [Alcée Fortier, A History of Louisiana, 1904]")
Francisco Cruzat, the only Spanish lieutenant governor of Upper Louisiana to occupy that…
![John F. Darby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Division, N12110]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-03/1.%20John%20F.%20Darby.jpg?h=8f644ba2&itok=Fp9PWpyi "John F. Darby. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Prints and Photographs Division, N12110]")
John Darby was a highly accomplished and distinguished lawyer, banker, philanthropist, and…
Henri Peyroux de Ia Coudrenière was born in France around 1743, the son of Marguerite-…