List of people from Sedalia, Missouri

The following is a list of people who were born in, have lived in, or are otherwise associated with American city of Sedalia, Missouri; they are known as Sedalians.

In addition to what follows, a list of more than fifty Sedalia "Old Timers", who had met at the Sedalia Courthouse on the previous evening, was published in the December 12, 1893, issue of the Sedalia Bazoo; the list indicated when they had arrived in Sedalia, and from whence they had come.

Arts

Acting 

 Dorothy Dwan (1906–1981) – film actress
 Lucille McVey (1890–1925) – film screenwriter and silent film actress; married to Sidney Drew in 1914; often credited under married name of Mrs. Sidney Drew; through marriage, aunt to John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore
 Jack Oakie, born Lewis Delaney Offield (1903–1978) – film, stage, radio, and television actor

Art 

 Russell M. Glenn (born 1951) – artist and designer
 LeRoy Daniel MacMorris (1893–1981) – portrait painter, muralist, illustrator, decorator and designer

Comedy 

 Will Franken (born 1973) - comedian

Literature 

 Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984) – short-story writer; mystery novelist
 June Rae Wood (born 1946) – children's and young adult's author

Music 

 Andrew Berenyi (born 1963) – musician and glam-rock composer
 Bill Booth – musician, former member of The Airmen of Note, principal trombone in the Los Angeles Opera Company, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the Pasadena Symphony; adjunct associate professor (trombone), University of California, Los Angeles
 Scott Hayden (1882–1915) – composer of ragtime music
 George Thomas Ireland (1866–1963) – ragtime clarinet player; journalist in Sedalia for almost 50 years
 Scott Joplin (1867/1868–1917) – musician and composer of ragtime music
 Arthur Marshall (1881–1968) – composer and performer of ragtime music
 Etilmon Justus Stark (1868–1962) – ragtime composer and arranger
 John Stillwell Stark (1841–1927) – piano dealer; publisher of ragtime music; promoter of Scott Joplin
 Leroy Frank Van Dyke (born 1929) – country music performer; wrote "The Auctioneer" and recorded "Walk on By"; recorded over 500 songs

Photography 

 Wilson L. Hicks (1897–1970) – photographer; picture editor, Kansas City Star; photographic editor Life magazine (1937–1950); professor of photojournalism at the University of Miami (1955–1970)

Business 

 T. B. Anderson – founder of the Sedalia Telephone Company in 1880
 William E. Franklin – president of Weyerhaeuser Far East, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, International Timber Company of Indonesia, and Kenneday Bay Timber Company (Malaysia)
 Allen Percival Green (1875–1956) – engineer; founder, A. P. Green Fire Brick Company; philanthropist (donated A. P. Green Chapel to the University of Missouri)
 John W. Hicks, Jr. (1888–1945) – president, Paramount International Films; vice-president, Paramount Pictures
 Cyrus N. Johns – president, American Chain and Cable Company
 E. Virgil Neal (1868–1949) – manufacturer
 Samuel Lee Stedman (1916–1961) – MBA Harvard Business School (1937); New York merchant banker, Wall Street financial analyst

Education 

 Winona Cargile Alexander (1893–1894) – founder, Delta Sigma Theta sorority; high-school teacher; social worker
 James V. Mehl PhD (1941–1998) – historian; professor of humanities, Missouri Western State College

Sedalia School Superintendents 

 1867–1872: George O. Brown
 1872–1876 – G. W. Ready
 1876–1884 – D. R. Cully
 1884–1888 – William Richardson
 1888–1893 – A. J. Smith
 1893–1908 – G. V. Buchanan
 1908–1920 – John P. Gass
 1920–1924 – C. A. Greene
 1924–1927 – John N. Crocker
 1927–1958 – Heber U. Hunt (1897- )
 1958–1973 – T. J. Norris
 1973–1974 – A Henningson

Engineering 

 Daniel C. Jackling (1869–1956) – mining and metallurgical engineer; founder, Utah Copper Company; known as "the father of open-pit mining"
 Walter Rautenstrauch (1880–1951) – mechanical engineer; first chairman of Columbia University's Department of Industrial Engineering; adviser to the Mexican Government; co-founder of Committee on Technocracy (1932)

Historical figures 

 Clay Allison (1840–1887) – gunfighter, American Old West

Journalism 

 Raymond Peter Brandt (1896–1974) – Rhodes Scholar; O.I.C. Office of Finances, American Relief Administration, Vienna, Austria, 1920; District Supervisor, American Relief Administration, Vitebsk, Russia, (1922–1923); reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1917–1919), and Washington, D.C. correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1923–1967)
 Elizabeth Williams Cosgrove (1878–1975), journalist; writer; poet
 Elizabeth Jane Dugan (?1848–1911) – also known as "Rosa Pearle"; poet; journalist (started with the Sedalia Bazoo; founder and editor of the Saturday-evening society weekly Rosa Pearle's Paper (1894–1911)
 Mary Frances "Murry" Engle (1930–2005) – journalist, Sedalia Democrat (1950–1966), Boeing News and Boeing Magazine (1967–1970); Honolulu Star-Bulletin (1970–1993)
 Charles Grandison Finney (1905–1984) – journalist; writer; part-time night club owner; author, The Circus of Dr. Lao, which adapted as the film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
 J. West Goodwin – editor of Sedalia Bazoo; president of Missouri Press Association (1891); organizer of the Sedalia Citizen’s Alliance (1902)
 Hazel Norinne Lang (1903–1996) – journalist, reporter and feature writer with the Sedalia Democrat (1925–1970); poet; historian (author of Only Human; Poems of Everyday Life, Exposition Press, (New York), 1955, and the 1,112-page Life in Pettis County, 1815–1873, published in Sedalia, in 1975)
 Casper Salathiel Yost (1863–1941) – editor of St. Louis Globe-Democrat; founder of American Society of Newspaper Editors (1922)

Medicine 

 Walter Edward Dandy (1886–1946) – scientist and neurosurgeon
 Willis P. King – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1881)
 Thomas J. Montgomery – vice-president, Missouri State Medical Association (1874)
 John W. Trader – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1876)

Military

United States Army 

 Richard D. Dean (born 1929) – United States Army Brigadier General and Deputy Director of the Army National Guard
 Rufus Estes Longan (1879–1936) – Brigadier General, United States Army
 John C. McLaughlin (1903–1967) – Major General, United States Army, 35th Infantry Division
 John Henry Parker – Brigadier General, United States Army; West Point Graduate; war hero; first to recognize the tactical advantages of machine guns to continuously support advancing infantry and protect artillery trains (carriages pulled by draft animals); awarded the Distinguished Service Cross four times, for valor displayed on four separate occasions, during 1918
 Edgar Frank Thelen (born 1906) – University of Missouri graduate; associate of Harry S. Truman in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (1930–1940); US Army officer (1942–1961); staff member, University of Missouri
 William S. Triplet (1900–1994) – Colonel United States Army; professional soldier; West Point graduate (1924); served in both World War I and World War II

United States Navy 

 Floyd Ewing Hall (1920–1945) – naval aviator shot down over the island of Chichi Jima in the Pacific theater of World War II on February 18, 1945; after a month spent captured on the island, was executed and cannibalized by Japanese commanders; his capture and execution is one of the subjects of James Bradley's 2003 novel Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
 John James Housel (1911–1941) – SK1c USN; killed in action on December 7, 1941, on the U.S.S. Arizona in the first wave of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

United States Air Force 

 James Phillip Fleming (born 1943) – United States Air Force pilot in the Vietnam War; awarded Medal of Honor for bravery
 Arthur G. Salisbury (1916–2005) – Major General, USAF
 George Allison Whiteman – first USAF airman killed in World War II; killed when attempting to get his plane off the ground at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; in 1955, Sedalia Air Force Base was renamed Whiteman Air Force Base in his honor

Other 

 David Thomson (1775–1861) – General, third-division Kentucky militia (1814); politician; father-in-law of General George R. Smith; thought by many to be the killer of Tecumseh
 William Gentry (1818–1890) – Major in the 40th Enrolled Missouri Militia; livestock farmer; railroad executive; candidate for Governor (1874)

Politics and government

Heads of state and heads of government 

 Emmet Montgomery Reily (1866–1954) – journalist; politician; Governor of Puerto Rico (1921–1923)
 Charles Emmett Yeater (1861–1943) – graduate of the University of Missouri; acting Governor-General of the Philippines (March 5, 1921 – October 14, 1921)

Diplomats 

 John Flournoy Montgomery (1878–1954) – U.S Ambassador to Hungary (1933–1941)

Politicians 

 John Homer Bothwell (1849–1929) – lawyer; politician; member of the 35th and 38th General Assemblies of the Missouri legislature (1889 and 1895)
 John Morgan Evans (1863–1946) – U.S. Congressman (1913–1921; 1923–1933)
 Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863–1951) – teacher; businessman; U.S. Congressman (1929–1931)
 Judith K. Moriarty (born 1942) – politician; Missouri Secretary of State (1993–1994)
 John William Palmer (1866–1958) – physician; lawyer; U.S. Congressman (1929–1931)
 John Berchmans Sullivan (1897–1951) – lawyer; politician; U.S. Congressman (1941–1943; 1945–1947; 1949–1951)
 George Graham Vest (1830–1904) – orator; lawyer; politician; at his death, the last living Confederate States Senator; known for his "Eulogy on the Dog"
 Xenophon Pierce Wilfley (1871–1931) – teacher; lawyer; U.S. Senator (1918); president, Missouri Bar Association (1925)

Judiciary 

 Walter Henry Bohling (1888–1968) – Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1934–1963)
 Brown Harris (1876–1948) – Jackson County circuit court judge for 24 years
 Henry Lamm (1846–1926) – lawyer; jurist; poet; Associate and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1905–1916)
 Hazel Palmer – first female assistant prosecuting attorney in Sedalia, the first female county collector, and the first female magistrate judge of Pettis County; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958; president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women (1956–1958)
 John Finis Philips (1834–1919) – lawyer; politician; colonel 7th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry; president, Missouri Press Association (1891); US Congressman; federal judge

Mayors of Sedalia 
The following have been mayors of Sedalia:

 1864 – George Rappeen Smith (1804–1879)
 1865 – E.W. Warsburn (resigned)
 1865 – F.L. Parker
 1866 – John Finis Philips (1834–1919)
 1867 – Henry Suess (1837–1891)
 1868 – General Bacon Montgomery (1840–1888)
 1869 – Albert Parker
 1870 – William P. Jackson
 1871 – Thomas J. Montgomery
 1872 – George W. Cummings
 1873 – Dr. R. T. Miller
 1874 – William H. H. Hill
 1875 – Norman Maltby (1841–1876)
 1876 – David Blocher
 1877 – Logan Clark
 1878–1879 – George L. Faulgaber (1838-)
 1880 – E. C. Evans
 1881 – Frank Cravcroft
 1882–1883 – Charles E.Messerly
 1884–1885 – John B. Rickman
 1886–1887 – E. W.Stevens
 1888–1889 – John D. Crawford
 1890–1893 – E. W.Stevens
 1894–1898 – Pleasant Dawson Hastain (1854-)
 1898–1899 – W. C. Overstreet
 1900–1901 – Samuel K. Crawford
 1902–1905 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
 1906–1907 – John A. Collins
 1908–1910 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
 1910–1911 – J. W. Mellor
 1912–1913 – F. L. Ludemann
 1914–1917 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
 1918–1919 – A. L. Baumgartner
 1920–1923 – Frank F. Hatton
 1924–1927 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
 1928–1929 – O. B. Poundstone
 1930–1931 – S. B. Kennon
 1932–1933 – Wilmer Steeples (1891–1946)
 1934–1935: O. B. Poundstone; Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
 1936–1941 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
 1942–1945 – Alonzo H. Wilks
 1946–1949 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
 1950–1953 – Herbert E. Studer
 1954–1957 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
 1958–1961 – Abe Silverman (1899–1990)
 1970–1976 – Jerry N. Jones
 1976–1982 – Allen L. Hawkins
 1982–1989 – Larry Foster
 1989–1992 – Steven J. Dust
 1994–2001 – Jane Gray
 2002–2009 – Bob Wasson (1933–2009)
 since 2009 – Elaine Horn

Sport

Baseball 

 Allen Howard "Red" Conkwright (1896–1991) – fourth cousin of Oakland Raiders' coach Red Conkright; pitcher with the Detroit Tigers in the 1920 season
 Bill Drake (1895–1977) – pitcher in various Negro league baseball teams (1914–1927)
 John Tillman "Bud" Thomas (born 1929) – baseballer; infielder for the St. Louis Browns for the 1951 season
 Clarence LeRoy "Roy" Vaughn (born 1911) – baseballer; pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics for the 1934 season

Basketball 

 Kim Anderson (born 1955) – basketball player and coach

Billiards 

 Johnny Layton (1896–1956) – billiards champion; known as the "Diamond King"; won National Three-Cushion Championship 12 times (1919–1925); world champion (1928–1930); member of the Billiard Congress of America's Hall of Fame (inducted 1974)

Football 

 Richard William "Dick" Barker, Jr. (1897-) – American footballer; attended Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts; played in the American Professional Football Association; played two games for the Chicago Staleys and two games for the Rock Island Independents in 1921
 Douglas Claydon Van Horn (born 1944) – football offensive lineman in the National Football League (1966–1979)

Softball 

 Joey Rich (born 1956) – softballer, softball umpire, Amateur Softball Association Commissioner for the state of Missouri; president, American Amateur Softball Association (since 2007

Wrestling 

 Douglas A. "Ox" Baker (born 1934) – professional wrestler

Miscellaneous 

 Bernard Adolphus McFadden (later Macfadden) (1868–1955) – promoter of physical culture; advocate of fasting
 Francis Asbury Sampson (1842–1918) – author; Missouriana collector

Related pages
 List of people from Missouri

References

Further reading 
 Christensen, L.O.(ed), Dictionary of Missouri Biography, University of Missouri Press, (Columbia), 1999. 
 Ihrig, B.B. et al. (eds), The First One Hundred Years, A History of the City of Sedalia, Missouri, 1860–1960, Centennial History Committee, Sedalia, 1960.
 Imhauser, R.C., Images of America: Sedalia, Arcadia Publishing, (Charleston), 2007. 
 Scotten, F.C., History of the Schools of Pettis County, Missouri, 1974; Prepared under the Direction of C. F. Scotten, C.F. Scotton, (Sedalia) 1974.
 Bird, Kenneth L. "Rail to The Osage" The story of the Sedalia Warsaw & Southern Railroad, Menwith Publications,(Lincoln, Mo), 2009.

Other websites
 City of Sedalia official website
 Sedalia Convention and Visitors Bureau
 Sedalia Chamber of Commerce
 The Political Graveyard: A Database of Historic Cemeteries

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