the State Historical Society of Missouri
![Sterling Price. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.2001.40]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Sterling-Price.jpg?h=60c6e37a&itok=61UxQ2UK "Sterling Price. [Smithsonian Institution, National Portrait Gallery, NPG.2001.40]")
Born in Prince Edward County, Virginia, on September 11, 1809, Sterling Price was the son…
![Thomas Lawson Price. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1977.0004]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Thomas-Lawson-Price.jpg?h=e0ba2ebc&itok=g4PkisYU "Thomas Lawson Price. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Art Collection, 1977.0004]")
Thomas Lawson Price was born on January 19, 1809, near Danville, Virginia. Although he was…
![Thomas Reynolds. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-003866]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Thomas-Reynolds.jpg?h=caeb754a&itok=8XTW_b2M "Thomas Reynolds. [State Historical Society of Missouri, Ralph Walker Photographs Collection, P0108-003866]")
Elected in 1840, Thomas Reynolds became the seventh Missouri governor. There are few…
![Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2024-03/1.-thomas-caute-reynolds.jpg?h=b8c0628d&itok=IcKo6dOh "Thomas Caute Reynolds. [<em>The Civil Government of the United States and the State of Missouri</em>, 1897]")
Elected lieutenant governor of Missouri in 1860, Thomas Caute Reynolds worked diligently to separate Missouri…
![Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-Nellie-Tayloe-Ross.jpg?h=efb5bc87&itok=My8xv_Wc "Nellie Tayloe Ross. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ggbain-29524]")
Nellie Tayloe Ross was the first woman in the United States to serve as a state governor…
![James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-09/1-James-Shelds.jpg?h=b9de22ae&itok=XsYDtqRm "James Shields. [Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-cwpbh-04771]")
James Shields holds the distinction of being the only person to be elected to the US Senate…
The St. Louis Junto played a key role in shaping the politics of early nineteenth-…
![Leonor Sullivan. [Official Manual of Missouri, 1993–1994]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2021-03/1-Leonor-Sullivan.jpg?h=ed5b4c08&itok=FjX91wPe "Leonor Sullivan. [Official Manual of Missouri, 1993–1994]")
Leonor Alice Kretzer Sullivan was the first woman elected to the US Congress from a…
While serving as Upper Louisiana’s lieutenant governor between 1792 and 1799, Zenon Trudeau…
![Bess Truman’s official White House portrait by Greta Kempton. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 2008-149]](/sites/default/files/styles/article_header_image/public/2023-01/1.%20Bess%20Truman.jpg?h=ed1f4180&itok=8klDJrns "Bess Truman’s official White House portrait by Greta Kempton. [Harry S. Truman Library and Museum, 2008-149]")
Born in Independence, Missouri, on February 13, 1885, Elizabeth Virginia Wallace, who as…