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

### 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 
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* 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)
* Cyrus N. Johns – president, American Chain and Cable Company
* 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
* 1958–1973 – T. J. Norris
* 1973–1974 – A Henningson
* 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
* Thomas J. Montgomery – vice-president, Missouri State Medical Association (1874)
* 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)

### Politicians 
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* 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"
* 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
* 1865 – E.W. Warsburn (resigned)
* 1865 – F.L. Parker
* 1868 – General Bacon Montgomery (1840–1888)
* 1869 – Albert Parker
* 1875 – Norman Maltby (1841–1876)
* 1930–1931 – S. B. Kennon
* 1934–1935: O. B. Poundstone;
* 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 
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* Bernard Adolphus McFadden (later Macfadden) (1868–1955) – promoter of physical culture; advocate of fasting

## 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