Missouri became the 24th U.S. state on this date in 1821. President James Monroe signed the federal law making it official, according to a Missouri Courts history.
Photo credit: D.W. Kellogg & Co. James Monroe, fifth President of the United States. , None. [Between 1830 and 1842] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002706764/.
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