Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-05-31
MISSOURI'S

MISSOURTS GOVERNORS.
The following are the names of the
Governors of Missouri in chronology
cal order.
Alexander McNair, q native OF
Pennsylvania, was the first governor OF
the State of Missouri. He died in
st. Louis in 1926.
Frederick Bates, a native of Vir-
giLia, was the next governor of Mis-
souri,. He died in office the first year
of his administration.
John Miller, a native of Ohio, was
the next governor of the State. He
died in st. Louis county March IS,
1916.
Daniel Dunklin. a native of South
carolina, vas the next governor of the
State. He died at his farm in Jefser-
son county, about the year 1916.
Lilburn w. Boggs, u native OF
Kentucky, was the next governor of
the State.
Thomas Reynolds, a native, 1 be-
lieye, of Kentucky, was the next gov
ernor of Missouri. He committed
suicide in the executive mansion in
Jefferson City during his term of Of
fee, about the year 1912,
John G. Edwards, a native of the
State of Tennessee, was the next gov
ernor of the State.
Austin A. King, q native of Sulli-
van county, Tennessee, born goth of
September 1901, vas the next gov
ernor of this State. He died in Ray
county.
Sterling Price, a native of the State
Of Virginia, was the next governor OF
THIS State. He took an active part on
the side of the Southern Confederacy,
and after the wal fed to Mexico.
From whence he returned and took
up his residence in st. Louis, where
he died very shortly afterwards.
Trusten Polk, a native of Sussex
county, Delaware, born May 29th,
1911, was the next governor of this
State. He was sworn into office as
governor of the State the first week in
January, 1857, and was elected to the
United States Senate Oh the 18th day
of January, 1857. SO that he was
actually governor less than fourteen
days. His principal competitor fol
the Senate was John Smith Phelps,
present governor Of the State. MIR.
Polk continued III office Il few days
after he had been elected senator,
when the executive mantle fell upon
Hancock Jackson, then ~lieutenaat
governor of the State, and performed
the functions and filed the office Of
governor till q new election was had,
when Robert NJ. Stewart was elected
for the balance of the term. Polk
died in st, Louis, 10th of April, 1875
Robert NJ. Stewart, born at Tren'
ton, CORTLAND county, in the State Of
New York, was the next governoE6 81
the State Of Missouri He died in
st. Joseph, this State, September 81,
1871.
Claiborne +. Jackson, a native Of
Kentucky, was the next governor o.
this State. He joined the Southern
C~onfederacy and died during his term
at a farm house, opposite the city Of
Little Rock, among strangers, with nc
kind hand of affection near to soothe
his pain and rob his death bed of hal
its anguish. The most remarkable
fact connected with the history of his
life, is, perhaps, the statement that
he married five sisters, in one Of the
most respectable, wealthy and dis
tinguished families I'm the State. That
az 500 as one wife would die, he
would go and marry her sister in a
reasonable time; of course some OF
these were widows when he married
them. In connection with these mar.
riaces there was a standing joke told
at the expense of the governor, which
was, that when he went and asked the
old gentleman's consent to marry the
last one, the venerable old father 10
reported to have said, "Yes, Claib,
YOU can have her. You have now
got them all. For goodness sake don't
next ask me for the old woman"
Hamilton Rowan Gamble, a native
of the state of Virginia, after Gov.
Jackson had left the state, was elected
provisional governor by the state con
yention, and died in office during the
war, in the year 1864, and was, In
and was buried i'm B~elefcntaine ceme-
terry, St. Louis.
Thomas C. Fletcher, a native Of
Jefferson county, Mo-, and the first
native born elected governor, was
the next governor of this state. He is
still living in st. Louis.
Joseph w. McClurg, a native of
G. Io,is county, born on the Malaine