page_title: List of people from Sedalia, Missouri
section_title: Politicians
hierarchical_section_title: List of people from Sedalia, Missouri / Politics and government / Politicians
caption_attribution_description: George Graham Vest. Library of Congress description: "Vest, Hon. of MO. (Senator)".
context_page_description: 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.
context_section_description: 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)
caption: Senator George Graham Vest
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