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Title
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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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Portrait and biographical sketch of Sterling Price (1809-1867), "a representative from Missouri" and the tenth governor of Missouri. Native of Virginia moving to Missouri in the early 1800s and becoming a statesman and military officer in the Mexican War and Confederate general in the Civil War, dying in Saint Louis.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book
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Title
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Missouri Democracy: A History of the Party and Its Representative Members--Past and Present
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Description
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Biographical description of General John Charles Fremont, or John Fremont (1813-1890), a Western explorer and major Union general in the Kansas City area at the beginning of the Civil War, with description of his wife, Jessie Benton Fremont, or Jessie Fremont, and her father, Senator Thomas Hart Benton. Description of John's life and career, born in Georgia and becoming a math teacher and civil engineer in the 1830s, explorer of the West in the 1840s-1850s, and military general in the 1860s, as well as a senator from California and governor of Arizona Territory.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book