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Title
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Thomas Hart Benton (Senator)
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Description
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Short biography of Missouri Senator Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858).
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Richard Bolling
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Description
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Head and shoulders portrait of Richard Bolling. Bolling was the Congressional Representative from the 5th District from 1948 through 1972. The Richard Bolling Federal Building on 12th Street was named after him.
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Object Type
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Photograph
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Senator Lewis F. Linn and the Oregon Question
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Description
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Article about Senator Lewis Linn (1795-1843), one of the most active promoters of "the American expansionist compulsion" (along with Representative John Floyd of Virginia in the 1820s) from 1837 until his death in 1843. Linn was a native of Kentucky who lived and died in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. Included are portraits of Linn, Senator Thomas Hart Benton, Henry Dodge, George McDuffie, Caleb Cushing, and Jesse Applegate. Linn was influenced by Thomas Hart Benton in his "Oregon fever" to settle the far West, and he became known as "the father of Oregon." His guardian as a child was Henry Dodge. Linn worked on the interests of early Missouri but had a special interest in Oregon and he established a bill in 1838 "to establish the Oregon Territory west of the Rocky Mountains and north of latitute 42 [degrees]" to ensure its protection as U.S. territory versus British territory--in opposition to Senator George McDuffie.
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Date
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1971-10
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Wheat to Congress
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Description
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Photo and biographical article about Alan Wheat, "the first Black ever to represent a mostly White district (Missouri's 5th District) in the House of Representatives." Born in San Antonio in 1951 and graduating from Howard University before succeeding Richard Bolling as national representative in Kansas City.
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Date
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1982-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Local Heroes: Senator Dick Bond
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Description
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Photo and biographical sketch of Kansas Senator Dick Bond, the first city attorney of Overland Park in 1960, becoming a state senator for Kansas in 1986.
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Date
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1995-12
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Sure Thing: Representative Alan Wheat
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Description
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Photos and biographical article about Alan Wheat, 35-year-old black national representative of "Missouri's Fifth District" since 1982 (succeeding Richard Bolling), comprising "most of Kansas City."
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Date
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1986-07
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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The Journal of Mamie Bernard Aguirre
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Description
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Photo and description of "Senator Steven B. Elkins," at the age of 21 in Westport during the Civil War as a passenger on an ambulance wagon, accompanying Mamie Aguirre on her honeymoon.
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Date
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1966
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Object Type
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Magazine Article
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Title
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Richard W. Bolling
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Description
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Short biography of U.S. Congressman from Missouri Richard W. Bolling (1916-1991). Includes citations.
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Date
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1999
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Object Type
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Book Section
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Title
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Thomas Hart Benton, Senator
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Description
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Portrait, biographical sketch, and lengthy descriptions of important political influences on the early history of Missouri of Senator Thomas Hart Benton.
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Date
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1935
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Object Type
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Book Section
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