STATES AND TERRITORIES OF THE UNITED

In this post we will looking at Missouri and its territories, Its past and present governors and current House of representative’s members.

INTRODUCTION.

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States. Ranking 21st in land area, it is bordered by eight states (tied for the most with Tennessee): Iowa to the north, Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee to the east, Arkansas to the south and Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska to the west. In the south are the Ozarks, a forested highland, providing timber, minerals, and recreation. The Missouri River, after which the state is named, flows through the center into the Mississippi River, which makes up the eastern border. With more than six million residents, it is the 19th-most populous state of the country. The largest urban areas are St. Louis, Kansas City, Springfield and Columbia; the capital is Jefferson City. Humans have inhabited what is now Missouri for at least 12,000 years. The Mississippian culture, which emerged at least in the ninth century, built cities and mounds before declining in the 14th century. When European explorers arrived in the 17th century, they encountered the Osage and Missouria nations. The French incorporated the territory into Louisiana, founding Ste. Genevieve in 1735 and St. Louis in 1764. After a brief period of Spanish rule, the United States acquired Missouri as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803. Americans from the Upland South, including enslaved African Americans, rushed into the new Missouri Territory. Missouri was admitted as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Many from Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee settled in the Boon slick area of Mid-Missouri. Soon after, heavy German immigration formed the Missouri Rhineland. Missouri played a central role in the westward expansion of the United States, as memorialized by the Gateway Arch. The Pony Express, Oregon Trail, Santa Fe Trail and California Trail all began in Missouri. As a border state, Missouri’s role in the American Civil War was complex, and it was subject to rival governments, raids, and guerilla warfare. After the war, both Greater St. Louis and the Kansas City metropolitan area became centers of industrialization and business. Today the state is divided into 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis.

MISSOURI TERRITORIES.

Missouri borders eight different states, a figure equaled only by its neighbor, Tennessee. Missouri is bounded by Iowa on the north; by Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee across the Mississippi River on the east; on the south by Arkansas; and by Oklahoma, Kansas, and Nebraska (the last across the Missouri River) on the west. Whereas the northern and southern boundaries are straight lines, the Missouri Bootheel extends south between the St. Francis and the Mississippi rivers. The two largest rivers are the Mississippi (which defines the eastern boundary of the state) and the Missouri River (which flows from west to east through the state), essentially connecting the two largest metros of Kansas City and St. Louis. Although today it is usually considered part of the Midwest, Missouri was historically seen by many as a border state, chiefly because of the settlement of migrants from the South and its status as a slave state before the Civil War, balanced by the influence of St. Louis. The counties that made up “Little Dixie” were those along the Missouri River in the center of the state, settled by Southern migrants who held the greatest concentration of slaves. In 2005, Missouri received 16,695,000 visitors to its national parks and other recreational areas totaling 101,000 acres (410 km2), giving it $7.41 million in annual revenues, 26.6% of its operating expenditures

LIST OF GOVERNORS AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVE’S MEMBERS.

Missouri was part of the Louisiana Purchase, which the United States purchased from France in 1803. In its first year it was part of Louisiana. In 1804 all of the territory above what is modern-day Louisiana was broken off and administered by a governor based in St. Louis, Missouri until statehood. Prior to the purchase both France and Spain administered the territory in a similar manner. France initially had a commandant in charge of Upper Louisiana. Spain around 1770 began having a lieutenant governor in St. Louis and governor in New Orleans, Louisiana ruling the whole territory. For a list of governors under Spanish and French rule see

Louisiana Governor. For a list of lieutenant governors ruling Upper Louisiana under French and Spanish control see List of commandants of the Illinois Country. Since the state capitol moved to Jefferson City in 1826 the governor has lived in the Missouri Governor’s Mansion a block east of the Missouri State Capitol (although the current mansion is the third one). Two governors have served non-consecutive terms, Phil M. Donnelly and Kit Bond. The current governor is Mike Parson, a member of the Republican Party.

Governors of Louisiana Territory and Missouri Territory

Governors of Missouri

#	Governor	Took office	Left office	Party	Lt. Governor	Term(s)
1			Alexander McNair	September 18, 1820/August 10, 1821 (term began as territorial governor)	November 15, 1824	Democratic-Republican		William Henry Ashley	1
2			Frederick Bates	November 15, 1824	August 4, 1825	Democratic-Republican		Benjamin Harrison Reeves	1⁄3[C]
3			Abraham J. Williams	August 4, 1825	January 20, 1826	Democratic-Republican		Vacant	1⁄3[H]
4			John Miller	January 20, 1826	November 19, 1832	Democratic		Daniel Dunklin	1+1⁄3[I]
5			Daniel Dunklin	November 19, 1832	September 30, 1836	Democratic		Lilburn W. Boggs	1⁄2[J]
6			Lilburn Boggs	September 30, 1836	November 16, 1840	Democratic		Franklin Cannon	1+1⁄2[K]
7			Thomas Reynolds	November 16, 1840	February 9, 1844	Democratic		Meredith Miles Marmaduke	1⁄2[C]
8			Meredith Miles Marmaduke	February 9, 1844	November 20, 1844	Democratic		Vacant	1⁄2[L]
9			John C. Edwards	November 20, 1844	November 20, 1848	Democratic		James Young	1
10			Austin Augustus King	November 20, 1848	January 3, 1853	Democratic		Thomas Lawson Price	1
11			Sterling Price	January 3, 1853	January 5, 1857	Democratic		Wilson Brown	1
12			Trusten Polk	January 5, 1857	February 27, 1857	Democratic		Hancock Lee Jackson	1⁄3[M]
13			Hancock Lee Jackson	February 27, 1857	October 22, 1857	Democratic		Vacant	1⁄3[N]
14			Robert Marcellus Stewart	October 22, 1857	January 3, 1861	Democratic		Hancock Lee Jackson	1⁄3[I]
15			Claiborne Fox Jackson	January 3, 1861	July 23, 1861	Democratic		Thomas Caute Reynolds	1⁄3[O]
16			Hamilton Rowan Gamble	July 31, 1861	January 31, 1864	Republican		Willard Preble Hall	1⁄3[P][C]
17			Willard Preble Hall	January 31, 1864	January 2, 1865	Republican		Vacant	1⁄3[L]
18			Thomas Clement Fletcher	January 2, 1865	January 12, 1869	Republican		George Smith	1
19			Joseph W. McClurg	January 12, 1869	January 4, 1871	Republican		Edwin O. Stanard	1
20			B. Gratz Brown	January 4, 1871	January 3, 1873	Liberal Republican		Joseph J. Gravely	1
21			Silas Woodson	January 3, 1873	January 12, 1875	Democratic		Charles Phillip Johnson	1
22			Charles Henry Hardin	January 12, 1875	January 8, 1877	Democratic		Norman Jay Coleman	1
23			John Smith Phelps	January 8, 1877	January 10, 1881	Democratic		Henry Clay Brockmeyer	1
24			Thomas Theodore Crittenden	January 10, 1881	January 12, 1885	Democratic		Robert Alexander Campbell	1
25			John S. Marmaduke	January 12, 1885	December 28, 1887	Democratic		Albert P. Morehouse	1⁄2[C]
26			Albert P. Morehouse	December 28, 1887	January 14, 1889	Democratic		Vacant	1⁄2[L]
27			David R. Francis	January 14, 1889	January 9, 1893	Democratic		Stephen Hugh Claycomb	1
28			William J. Stone	January 9, 1893	January 11, 1897	Democratic		John Baptiste O’Meara	1
29			Lawrence Vest Stephens	January 11, 1897	January 14, 1901	Democratic		August Henry Bolte	1
30			Alexander Monroe Dockery	January 14, 1901	January 9, 1905	Democratic		John Adams Lee	1
	Thomas L. Rubey
31			Joseph W. Folk	January 9, 1905	January 11, 1909	Democratic		John C. McKinley	1
32			Herbert S. Hadley	January 9, 1909	January 13, 1913	Republican		Jacob Friedrich Gmelich	1
33			Elliot Woolfolk Major	January 13, 1913	January 8, 1917	Democratic		William Rock Painter	1
34			Frederick D. Gardner	January 8, 1917	January 10, 1921	Democratic		Wallace Crossley	1
35			Arthur M. Hyde	January 10, 1921	January 12, 1925	Republican		Hiram Lloyd	1
36			Samuel Aaron Baker	January 12, 1925	January 14, 1929	Republican		Phillip Allen Bennett	1
37			Henry S. Caulfield	January 14, 1929	January 9, 1933	Republican		Edward Henry Winter	1
38			Guy Brasfield Park	January 9, 1933	January 11, 1937	Democratic		Frank Gaines Harris	1
39			Lloyd C. Stark	January 11, 1937	February 26, 1941	Democratic		Frank Gaines Harris	1[Q]
40			Forrest C. Donnell	February 26, 1941	January 8, 1945	Republican		Frank Gaines Harris	1[R]
41			Phil M. Donnelly	January 8, 1945	January 10, 1949	Democratic		Walter Naylor Davis	1
42			Forrest Smith	January 10, 1949	January 12, 1953	Democratic		James T. Blair Jr.	1
43			Phil M. Donnelly	January 12, 1953	January 14, 1957	Democratic		James T. Blair Jr.	1
44			James T. Blair Jr.	January 14, 1957	January 9, 1961	Democratic		Edward V. Long	1
45			John M. Dalton	January 9, 1961	January 11, 1965	Democratic		Hilary A. Bush	1
46			Warren E. Hearnes	January 11, 1965	January 8, 1973	Democratic		Thomas F. Eagleton	2
	William S. Morris
47			Kit Bond	January 8, 1973	January 10, 1977	Republican		William C. Phelps	1
48			Joseph P. Teasdale	January 10, 1977	January 12, 1981	Democratic		William C. Phelps	1
49			Kit Bond	January 12, 1981	January 14, 1985	Republican		Kenneth J. Rothman	1
50			John Ashcroft	January 14, 1985	January 11, 1993	Republican		Harriett Woods	2
	Mel Carnahan
51			Mel Carnahan	January 11, 1993	October 16, 2000	Democratic		Roger B. Wilson	1+1⁄2[C]
52			Roger B. Wilson	October 16, 2000	January 8, 2001	Democratic		Joe Maxwell	1⁄2[L][S]
53			Bob Holden	January 8, 2001	January 10, 2005	Democratic		Joe Maxwell	1
54			Matt Blunt	January 10, 2005	January 12, 2009	Republican		Peter Kinder	1
55			Jay Nixon	January 12, 2009	January 9, 2017	Democratic		Peter Kinder	2
56			Eric Greitens	January 9, 2017	June 1, 2018	Republican		Mike Parson	1⁄2
57			Mike Parson	June 1, 2018	Incumbent[4]	Republican		Mike Kehoe	1⁄2[L]

MEMBERS OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THE U.S. HOUSE FROM MISSOURI

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of Missouri. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from Missouri. This is a list of members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri and non-voting delegates to the House from Missouri Territory. Statehood was granted in 1821.