Upon arriving at Baltimore, Selkirk on December 22 wrote to John Quincy Adams, Secretary of State at Washington, inquiring about laws covering trade with `` Missouri and Illinois Territories ''.

Larry Scherer last night pitched a no-hit game, said to be the first in Billiken baseball history, as the Blue and White beat Southeast Missouri State College, 5-1, at Crystal City.

Of these, 10, 000 were in Missouri under Missouri State Guard Maj. Gen. Sterling Price.

Believing the Saints to be in insurrection, the Missouri governor ordered that the Saints be " exterminated or driven from the State ".

In 1838 he was re-elected to the Missouri State House of Representatives.

He accepted an appointment as a general in the Missouri State Guard.

Atchison actively recruited State Guardsmen in northern Missouri and served with Missouri State Guard commander General Sterling Price in the summer campaign of 1861.

In September 1861, Atchison led 3, 500 State Guard recruits across the Missouri River to reinforce Price, and defeated Union troops that tried to block his force in the Battle of Liberty.

In 1991, Atchison was inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians, and a bronze bust depicting him is on permanent display in the rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol.

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* John Walker ( Missouri politician ) ( 1770 – 1838 ), State Treasurer of Missouri

After law school, Ashcroft briefly taught Business Law and worked as an administrator at Southwest Missouri State University.

After the primary, Missouri Governor Kit Bond appointed Ashcroft to the office of State Auditor, which Bond had vacated when he became Governor.

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Pierce had barely mentioned Nebraska in his State of the Union message the previous month and was not enthusiastic about the implications of repealing the Missouri Compromise.

Downtown Kansas City itself is established by city Local ordinance | ordinance to stretch from the Missouri River south to 31st Street ( beyond the bottom of this map ), and from State Line Rd.

Downtown Kansas City is an area of bounded by the Missouri River to the north, 31st Street to the south, Troost Avenue to the East, and State Line road to the West.

Between 1986 and 2000, it was combined with Dance St. Louis to form the State Ballet of Missouri, although it remained located in Kansas City.

On the last weekend in October, the Fall Classic rivalry game between Northwest Missouri State University and Pittsburg State University takes place here.

His brother, Lawrence Heinlein, served in the Army, the Air Force, and the Missouri National Guard and rose to the rank of major general.

Four units of Missouri State Guard infantrymen are known to have supported the Confederates.

In July 1861, the Second Infantry Regiment of McBride's Seventh Division, Missouri State Guard was formed.

In early 1862 the Missouri State Guard was disbanded and regular Confederate Army units were formed.

In August of 1861, 1, 500 soldiers from Andrew County and other counties joined the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard at Camp Highly in eastern Andrew County while others joined a large Union cap in adjacent Gentry County.

Cole Camp was the site of a skirmish early in the American Civil War, when the local pro-Union Home Guard company was attacked by a Missouri State Guard force on June 19, 1861.

Union forces defeated a small and poorly equipped force of the Missouri State Guard in the first Battle of Boonville.

In July 1861 Confederate militia from Lewis County entered Edina, and the Union Home Guard retreated to Macon, Missouri.

On September 12, 1861, between 6, 000 and 10, 000 soldiers of the Missouri State Guard, led by Major General Sterling Price, began a siege against the Federal military post in the old Masonic College commanded by Colonel James A. Mulligan.

Soldiers of the Missouri Army National Guard sandbag the Mississippi River, June 2008.

The 131st Bomb Wing is a unit of the Missouri Air National Guard.

Missouri Army National Guard 1st Battalion 135th Attack Reconnaissance Brigade, AH-64 Apache

It is the home of the 139th Airlift wing of the Missouri National Guard.

* Sikeston is also home to the Missouri National Guard unit Company C 1140th Engineer Battalion which took part in Operation Iraqi Freedom from February 2004 until February 2005.

* King Sidwell, the 2005-2009 Adjutant General of the Missouri National Guard, is an attorney from Sikeston.

* Colonel Wendul Glenn Hagler, II is the Missouri National Guard joint chief of staff and is the commanding officer of the Missouri National Guard's 70th Troop Command, the largest brigade within the Missouri National Guard.

Jefferson also placed special importance on declaring U. S. sovereignty over the Native Americans along the Missouri River, and getting an accurate sense of the resources in the recently completed Louisiana Purchase.

In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson issued the following instructions to Meriwether Lewis: " The object of your mission is to explore the Missouri river, & such principal stream of it, as, by its course & communication with the waters of the Pacific Ocean, whether the Columbia, Oregon, Colorado and / or other river may offer the most direct & practicable water communication across this continent, for the purposes of commerce.

Even though Lewis and Clark had only traveled a narrow portion of the upper Missouri River drainage and part of the Columbia River drainage, these were considered the two major rivers draining most of the Rocky Mountains, and the expedition confirmed that there was no " easy " route through the northern Rocky Mountains as Jefferson had hoped.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson obtained from France the Louisiana Purchase for fifteen million dollars ( equivalent to about $ 230 million today ) which included all the land drained by the Missouri River and roughly doubled the size of U. S. territory.

Longstreet spent his first two years of service at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri, where he was soon joined by his friend, Lieutenant Grant.

* Jefferson County, Missouri

In a famous letter to Meriwether Lewis in 1803, Thomas Jefferson instructed the Lewis and Clark expedition to " carry with you some matter of the kine-pox ; inform those of them with whom you may be, of its efficacy as a preservative from the smallpox ; & encourage them in the use of it ..." Jefferson had developed an interest in protecting Native Americans from smallpox having been aware of epidemics along the Missouri River during the previous century.

Under Eero Saarinen, the firm carried out many of its most important works, including the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial ( Gateway Arch ) in St. Louis, Missouri, the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana, the TWA Flight Center at John F. Kennedy International Airport that he worked on with Charles J. Parise, and the main terminal of Dulles International Airport near Washington, D. C ..

Plans were made to continue through St. Louis, at confluence of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and to Jefferson City upstream on the Missouri.

On May 15, 1820, Congress authorized an extension to St. Louis, Missouri, on the Mississippi River, and on March 3, 1825, across the Mississippi to Jefferson City, Missouri.

Pierre, South Dakota ; Jefferson City, Missouri ; and Juneau, Alaska are the other three state capitals with this distinction.

Jefferson City is the capital of the U. S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County.

Jefferson City is on the northern edge of the Ozark Plateau on the southern side of the Missouri River near the geographic center of the state, in a region known as Mid-Missouri.

Jefferson City was selected as the site for a state prison and, in 1836, the Missouri State Penitentiary was opened.

German immigrants created vineyards in small towns on either side of the Missouri River, especially on the north from Jefferson City east to Marthasville, outside St. Louis.

Astronaut Photograhy of Jefferson City Missouri taken from the International Space Station ( ISS )

The Missouri Department of Corrections ( MDOC ) operates the Jefferson City Correctional Center in Jefferson City.

MDOC operated the Missouri State Penitentiary ( later named the Jefferson City Correctional Center ) in Jefferson City.

Dover, Delaware ; Jefferson City, Missouri ; and Juneau, Alaska, are the other three state capitals with this distinction.

His paintings may be found in the collections of Amon Carter Museum ( Fort Worth, Texas ); Museum of New Mexico ( Santa Fe, New Mexico ); St. Louis Art Museum ; murals in the Missouri State Capitol ( Jefferson City, Missouri ); Gilcrease Museum ( Tulsa, Oklahoma ); Stark Museum of Art ( Orange, Texas ); Nelson-Atkins Museum ; Wichita Art Museum ; and others.