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Senator Thomas Eagleton

US Senator Thomas Eagleton was born in St. Louis. Outside of Missouri, he is most remembered for being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972.

Francis Preston Blair, Jr.

Francis Preston Blair Jr., Missouri senator and soldier, was born on this date in 1821.

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Hillary Clinton’s choice of a running mate was closely watched. She selected Tim Kaine on this day in 2016. Kaine attended Rockhurst High School in Kansas City and the University of Missouri-Columbia before launching his political career. Although he never served as Vice President, Kaine became a United States senator in Virginia. Based upon content …

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Alexander McNair Missouri's First Governor

Missouri’s first statewide elections were held. Alexander McNair was elected Governor. Missouri was still one year away from officially becoming a state. Read our story about Missouri’s first territorial governors here.

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Mellcene Thurman Smith and Sarah Lucille Turner became the first women elected to the State Legislature.

Valentine Tapley 12 Foot Beard Frankford Missouri

This was the last day that Valentine Tapley shaved. He promised his Pike County friends that if Lincoln were to be elected, he would never shave again. His beard grew to over 12 ½ feet. 

Dewey Defeats Truman St. Louis Union Station Harry S Truman

At the St. Louis Union Station, Harry Truman displayed the famous newspaper headline, “Dewey Defeats Truman.”

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In an early attempt at networking before the days of broadcast networks President Warren G. Harding’s speech from the annual national assembly of Rotary Clubs in St. Louis was sent by telephone lines from KSD radio to other stations in the U.S.

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The radical reformer, statesman, general, and Missouri Senator Carl Schurz was born on this day. He is famous for saying: ” My country, right or wrong ; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right.”

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William Henry Hatch, Missouri’s Congressman and agricultural innovator, was born. Hatch Hall at the University of Missouri in Columbia was named in his honor. 

Senator Thomas Eagleton

US Senator Thomas Eagleton was born in St. Louis. Outside of Missouri, he is most remembered for being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972.

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Birthday of Missouri’s first Congressman, John Scott from Ste. Genevieve. A brilliant lawyer and debater, Mr. Scott did have a temper. One morning he challenged five different men to duels.

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Walker introduced a resolution in the Missouri General Assembly ordering the Highway Department to withdraw the offending, taxpayer-funded maps. He called the omission of the county “serious and extremely detrimental.” But the resolution was shuffled into the House Committee on Miscellaneous Affairs, where legal nuisances were often smothered.

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Protection. Deterrence. Mitigation. That’s what Daisy, an elementary school teacher, and ten fellow Missouri public school employees studied in West Plains on June 9-13 at Shield Solutions’ School Employee Firearm Training Program, or SEFTP. The course teaches educators to be “gunfighters”—as Shield instructors call them—who will carry and employ concealed handguns to counter a lethal threat at their schools.

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President Taft didn’t want to offend either set of fans so, on this day, he attended part of the Cardinals game at Robison Field then scooted over to Sportsman’s Park for the rest of the Browns game.