the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Emma R. Knell, circa 1926. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Knell Family Photographs Collection, P0708-015517]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-04/1.%20Emma%20R.%20Knell.jpg?h=c427acad&itok=yJMP7Qme "Emma R. Knell, circa 1926. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Knell Family Photographs Collection, P0708-015517]")
Emma R. Knell, a businesswoman and politician, was born in Moline, Illinois, on October 21…
In 1824–1825, the Marquis de Lafayette, famous veteran of the Revolutionary War, returned to America to make a…
![Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-William_Carr_Lane.jpg?h=c35f98b2&itok=z0lEeTib "Portrait of William Carr Lane by A. J. Conant after Chester Harding. [Missouri Historical Society, St. Louis, Photographs and Prints Collection, 1950-087-0001]")
Born on December 1, 1789, in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, William Carr Lane spent most of…
Abiel Leonard, a lawyer, jurist, and political leader, was born in Windsor, Vermont, on May…
![Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-09/1.%20Lewis%20Linn.jpg?h=40f6870e&itok=nj-lCZUQ "Lewis Linn. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-06434]")
A frontier doctor, Jacksonian Democrat, and US senator, Lewis F. Linn has been called both…
![Edward V. Long (left) at the inauguration of Missouri governor Warren E. Hearnes, 1965. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection, P0016-045]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2022-07/1.%20Edward%20V.%20Long.jpg?h=5eaac381&itok=X3sIO4iU "Edward V. Long (left) at the inauguration of Missouri governor Warren E. Hearnes, 1965. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Gerald R. Massie Photograph Collection, P0016-045]")
Edward V. Long was born on July 18, 1908, in Lincoln County, Missouri. He received his…
The Louisiana Purchase, an 1803 land deal between the United States and France, doubled the size of the United…
![John Sappington Marmaduke in his Confederate brigadier general’s uniform. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06001]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-John-Sappington-Marmaduke.jpg?h=33cfb873&itok=VQtsb9dg "John Sappington Marmaduke in his Confederate brigadier general’s uniform. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpb-06001]")
Born on March 14, 1833, near Arrow Rock, Missouri, John Sappington Marmaduke is the only…
![Keith McCanse pictured on the cover of the April 1929 issue of Missouri Game and Fish News. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1.jpg?itok=VOgSxi80 "Keith McCanse pictured on the cover of the April 1929 issue of Missouri Game and Fish News. [Courtesy of the Missouri State Archives]")
Governor Sam Baker’s appointment of Keith McCanse as game and fish…
![Joseph Washington McClurg. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01388]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Joseph-Washington-McClurg.jpg?h=c85310f2&itok=yUtMH8WI "Joseph Washington McClurg. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-01388]")
Joseph Washington McClurg was Missouri’s second and final Radical Republican governor,…