Political party strength in Missouri
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The following table indicates the party of elected officials in the U.S. state
U.S. state
A U.S. state is any one of the 50 federated states of the United States of America that share sovereignty with the federal government. Because of this shared sovereignty, an American is a citizen both of the federal entity and of his or her state of domicile. Four states use the official title of...

 of Missouri
Missouri
Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

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The table also indicates the historical party composition in the:
For years in which a presidential election was held, the table indicates which party's nominees received the state's electoral votes.

The parties are as follows: (D), (DR), (LR), (N), (NR), (NU), (R), (W), and .
Year|Executive offices|State Legislature|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Missouri
These are tables of congressional delegations from Missouri to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. -United States Senate:-Delegates from Missouri Territory:...

|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

GovernorLieutenant GovernorSecretary of StateAttorney General
Missouri Attorney General
The Office of the Missouri Attorney General was created in 1806 when Missouri was part of the Louisiana Territory. Missouri's first Constitution in 1820 provided for an appointed Attorney General, but since the 1865 Constitution, the Attorney General has been elected...

Treasurer
State Treasurer of Missouri
The State Treasurer of Missouri is a statewide elected official responsible for serving as Missouri's chief financial officer. The current State Treasurer is Clint Zweifel.-Duties of the State Treasurer:...

AuditorState Senate
Missouri Senate
The Missouri State Senate is the upper chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 34 members, representing districts with an average population of 160,000...

State House
Missouri House of Representatives
The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 31,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.In 1992 Missouri...

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House
1820 Alexander McNair
Alexander McNair
Alexander McNair was an American frontiersman and politician. He was the first Governor of Missouri from its entry as a state in 1820, until 1824....

 (DR)
William Henry Ashley
William Henry Ashley
William Henry Ashley was a pioneering fur trader, entrepreneur, and politician. Though a native of Virginia, Ashley had already moved to St. Genevieve in what was then called Louisiana, when it was purchased by the United States from France in 1803...

 (DR)
Joshua Barton
Joshua Barton
Joshua Barton was the first Missouri Secretary of State and was involved in three duels with prominent Missouri politicians before being killed in a duel....

 (DR)
Edward Bates
Edward Bates
Edward Bates was a U.S. lawyer and statesman. He served as United States Attorney General under Abraham Lincoln from 1861 to 1864...

 (DR)
John Peter Didier
John Peter Didier
John Peter Didier was a U.S. politician and the first State Treasurer of Missouri.John Peter Didier was reportedly a native of France. Prior to emigrated to the United States, he married Marie Elizabeth Mercier in 1773. A prominent government official in the Missouri Territory, he served as Fire...

 (N)
William Christy (DR) James Monroe
James Monroe
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States . Monroe was the last president who was a Founding Father of the United States, and the last president from the Virginia dynasty and the Republican Generation...

 and Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins
Daniel D. Tompkins was an entrepreneur, jurist, Congressman, the fourth Governor of New York , and the sixth Vice President of the United States .-Name:...

 (DR)
1821 William Grymes Pettus
William Grymes Pettus
William Grymes Pettus In 1818 Pettus came to St. Louis from Virginia where he served in the War of 1812. While a land office clerk in St. Louis he was elected secretary of the State Convention which wrote the Constitution for Missouri, when it entered the Union in 1821. His public service included...

 (DR)
Rufus Easton
Rufus Easton
Rufus Easton was a Delegate from the Territory of Missouri.Born in Litchfield, Connecticut, Easton completed an academic course....

 (DR)
Nathaniel Simonds
Nathaniel Simonds
Nathaniel Simonds was a U.S. politician from Missouri.He was born in Windsor, Vermont, and settled in St. Charles, Missouri in February, 1801. In September, 1821, he was appointed as the second State Treasurer of Missouri. Following his retirement as State Treasurer in 1829, he settled in Lincoln...

 (DR)
William V. Rector (DR) Thomas Hart Benton
Thomas Hart Benton (senator)
Thomas Hart Benton , nicknamed "Old Bullion", was a U.S. Senator from Missouri and a staunch advocate of westward expansion of the United States. He served in the Senate from 1821 to 1851, becoming the first member of that body to serve five terms...

 (NR)
David Barton
David Barton (Missouri politician)
David Barton was one of the first U.S. senators from Missouri, serving 1821–1831.Barton was born near Greeneville, Tennessee, then part of North Carolina...

1N
1822
1823 Elias Barcroft (DR)
1824 Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Hamilton Rowan Gamble was the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott Decision in 1852, when his colleagues voted to overturn the 28-year precedent in Misssouri of "once free always free". He wrote a dissenting opinion...

 (DR)
Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

 and John C. Calhoun
John C. Calhoun
John Caldwell Calhoun was a leading politician and political theorist from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century. Calhoun eloquently spoke out on every issue of his day, but often changed positions. Calhoun began his political career as a nationalist, modernizer, and proponent...

 (DR)
1825 Frederick Bates
Frederick Bates
Frederick Bates , older brother of Edward Bates and James Woodson Bates, was an American attorney and politician. He was elected in 1824 as the second governor of Missouri and died in office in 1825...

 (DR)
Benjamin Harrison Reeves (DR)
Abraham J. Williams
Abraham J. Williams
Abraham J. Williams was an American politician from Boone County, Missouri. He was the third Governor of Missouri in 1825 and 1826....

 (DR)
vacant
1826 John Miller
John Miller (Missouri)
John Miller was an American publisher and politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He was the fourth Governor of Missouri...

 (D)
Spencer Darwin Pettis
Spencer Darwin Pettis
Spencer Darwin Pettis , U.S. Representative from Missouri. The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel over the United States Bank issue with Major Thomas Biddle. The quarrel escalated into a duel in which both men were killed on Bloody Island near St...

 (D)
Robert William Wells
Robert William Wells
Robert William Wells was a United States federal judge.Born in Winchester, Virginia, Wells read law to enter the bar in 1820. He was in private practice in Saint Charles, Missouri, from 1820 to 1821, and was a circuit attorney of the St. Charles Circuit from 1821 to 1822...

 (D)
Thomas Hart Benton (D)
1827
1828 Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States . Based in frontier Tennessee, Jackson was a politician and army general who defeated the Creek Indians at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend , and the British at the Battle of New Orleans...

 and John C. Calhoun (D)
1829 Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin
Daniel Dunklin was the fifth Governor of Missouri from 1832 to 1836. He was born in 1790 in Greenville, South Carolina, and died in 1844 near Herculaneum, Missouri, where he is buried. His grave is a state historic site and interprets Dunklin's role as the Father of Public Schools, as well as...

 (D)
Priestly Haggins McBride (D) James Earickson
James Earickson
James Earickson was a U.S. politician from Missouri.James Earickson was born in Isle of Kent, Maryland, and moved to Missouri in 1818. He was elected to the Missouri State Senate in August, 1828. Less than five months later, in January, 1829, he was appointed as State Treasurer of Missouri...

 (D)
1DR
1830 John Cummins Edwards (D) David Barton (NR)
1831 Alexander Buckner
Alexander Buckner
Alexander Buckner was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Jefferson County, Kentucky, he studied law and moved to Charleston, Indiana in 1812. He moved to Missouri in 1818 and settled near Jackson; he practiced law and also engaged in agricultural pursuits...

 (D)
1832 Andrew Jackson and Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren
Martin Van Buren was the eighth President of the United States . Before his presidency, he was the eighth Vice President and the tenth Secretary of State, under Andrew Jackson ....

 (D)
1833 Daniel Dunklin (D) Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Boggs
Lilburn Williams Boggs was the sixth Governor of Missouri from 1836 to 1840. He is now most widely remembered for his interactions with Joseph Smith and Porter Rockwell, and Missouri Executive Order 44, known by Mormons as the "Extermination Order", issued in response to the ongoing conflict...

 (D)
John Walker
John Walker (Missouri politician)
John Walker was a U.S. politician from Missouri.John Walker was born in Brunswick County, Virginia. He later moved to Kentucky, and eventually settled in Howard County, Missouri in 1818. A decade later, he was elected to the Missouri State Senate. He was elected as State Treasurer of Missouri in...

 (D)
Henry Shurlds (D) Lewis F. Linn
Lewis F. Linn
Lewis Fields Linn was a Jacksonian Democratic U.S. Senator for the state of Missouri born in Kentucky. He served in that role from 1833 to 1843. Four states named counties in his honor: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Oregon. West Linn, Oregon and Linnton, Oregon also get their name from the ex-senator...

 (D)
1DR, 1NR
1834
1835 Henry Shurlds (D) Peter Garland Glover
Peter Garland Glover
Peter Garland Glover was a U.S. politician from Missouri.He was born in Buckingham County, Virginia, and later moved with his family to Callaway County, Missouri. From 1830 to 1832, he served as a county judge. In 1832, he was elected to the state legislature. From 1835 to 1837, he served as State...

 (D)
1D, 1DR
1836 William Barclay Napton (D) Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson
Richard Mentor Johnson was the ninth Vice President of the United States, serving in the administration of Martin Van Buren . He was the only vice-president ever elected by the United States Senate under the provisions of the Twelfth Amendment. Johnson also represented Kentucky in the U.S...

 (D)
Lilburn Boggs (D) vacant
1837 Franklin Cannon (D) John Cummins Edwards (D) 2D
Peter Garland Glover (D) Hiram H. Baber
1838
Abraham McClellan
Abraham McClellan (Missouri politician)
Abraham McClellan was a U.S. politician from Missouri.Abraham McCllellan was born in Virginia. He later moved to Jackson County, Missouri, where he built one of the first houses in Fort Osage Township, Missouri, and became one of the county's most prominent citizens during the pioneer days...

1839 James Lawerence Minor (D) Samuel Mansfield Bay (D)
1840 Martin Van Buren and Richard Mentor Johnson (D)
1841 Thomas Reynolds
Thomas Reynolds (Governor)
Thomas Reynolds was the seventh Governor of Missouri from 1840 to 1844. He belonged to the Democratic Party....

 (D)
Meredith Miles Marmaduke
Meredith Miles Marmaduke
Meredith Miles Marmaduke was Missouri's eighth Governor, serving in 1844. He was a Democrat. He was also Lieutenant Governor of Missouri 1840–1844.-Life and career:...

 (D)
1842
1843 Peter Garland Glover (D) 5D
1844 Meredith Miles Marmaduke (D) vacant David Rice Atchison
David Rice Atchison
David Rice Atchison was a mid-19th century Democratic United States Senator from Missouri. He served as President pro tempore of the United States Senate for six years...

 (D)
James K. Polk
James K. Polk
James Knox Polk was the 11th President of the United States . Polk was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He later lived in and represented Tennessee. A Democrat, Polk served as the 17th Speaker of the House of Representatives and the 12th Governor of Tennessee...

 and George M. Dallas
George M. Dallas
George Mifflin Dallas was a U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania and the 11th Vice President of the United States , serving under James K. Polk.-Family and early life:...

 (D)
1845 John Cummins Edwards (D) James Young (D) Faulkland Heard Martin (D) Benjamin F. Stringfellow (D) William Monroe (D)
James W. McDearmon (D)
1846
1847
1848 George W. Miller (D) Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass
Lewis Cass was an American military officer and politician. During his long political career, Cass served as a governor of the Michigan Territory, an American ambassador, a U.S. Senator representing Michigan, and co-founder as well as first Masonic Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Michigan...

 and William Orlando Butler
William Orlando Butler
William Orlando Butler was a U.S. political figure and U.S. Army major general from Kentucky. He served as a Democratic congressman from Kentucky from 1839 to 1843, and was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee under Lewis Cass in 1848.-Early life:Butler was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky,...

 (D)
1849 Austin Augustus King (D) Thomas Lawson Price
Thomas Lawson Price
Thomas Lawson Price was a United States Representative from Missouri.Born near Danville, Virginia, Price attended public schools. He moved to Missouri in 1831 and settled in Jefferson City. He conducted stage lines and engaged in manufacturing and mercantile pursuits. He was the first mayor of...

 (D)
Ephraim B. Ewing (D) William A. Robards (D) Wilson Brown (D)
1850
1851 James B. Gardenhire (W) Alfred William Morrison
Alfred William Morrison
Alfred William Morrison was a U.S. politician from Missouri.Alfred William Morrison was born in Jessamine County, Kentucky. In 1820, he moved to Howard County, Missouri...

Henry S. Geyer
Henry S. Geyer
Henry Sheffie Geyer was a politician, lawyer, and soldier from Missouri. Born in Frederick, Maryland, he was instructed privately, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1811 and practiced law in Frederick...

 (W)
3W, 2D
1852 Abraham Fulkerson (D) Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Franklin Pierce was the 14th President of the United States and is the only President from New Hampshire. Pierce was a Democrat and a "doughface" who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate. Pierce took part in the Mexican-American War and became a brigadier general in the Army...

 and William R. King
William R. King
William Rufus DeVane King was the 13th Vice President of the United States for about six weeks , and earlier a U.S. Representative from North Carolina, Minister to France, and a Senator from Alabama...

 (D)
1853 Sterling Price
Sterling Price
Sterling Price was a lawyer, planter, and politician from the U.S. state of Missouri, who served as the 11th Governor of the state from 1853 to 1857. He also served as a United States Army brigadier general during the Mexican-American War, and a Confederate Army major general in the American Civil...

 (D)
Wilson Brown (D) John M. Richardson (D) William H. Buffington (D) 4W, 3D
1854
1855 vacant 5W, 1D, 1KN
Know Nothing
The Know Nothing was a movement by the nativist American political faction of the 1840s and 1850s. It was empowered by popular fears that the country was being overwhelmed by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, who were often regarded as hostile to Anglo-Saxon Protestant values and controlled by...

1856 James Buchanan
James Buchanan
James Buchanan, Jr. was the 15th President of the United States . He is the only president from Pennsylvania, the only president who remained a lifelong bachelor and the last to be born in the 18th century....

 and John C. Breckinridge
John C. Breckinridge
John Cabell Breckinridge was an American lawyer and politician. He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from Kentucky and was the 14th Vice President of the United States , to date the youngest vice president in U.S...

 (D)
1857 Trusten Polk
Trusten Polk
Trusten Polk served as both the 12th Governor of Missouri in 1857 and U.S. Senator from 1857 to 1862.-Biography:...

 (D)
Hancock Lee Jackson
Hancock Lee Jackson
Hancock Lee Jackson was an American lawyer and politician. As Lieutenant Governor he was the 13th Governor of Missouri in 1857, taking office after previous Democratic Governor Trusten Polk resigned on February 27, 1857. Jackson was succeeded by fellow Democrat Robert Marcellus Stewart...

 (D)
Benjamin Franklin Massey (D) Ephraim B. Ewing (D) James S. Green
James S. Green
James Stephen Green was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri.-Early life and education:...

 (D)
3D, 2KN, 1W, 1R
Hancock Lee Jackson (D) vacant Trusten Polk (D)
1858 Robert Marcellus Stewart
Robert Marcellus Stewart
Robert Marcellus Stewart was the 14th Governor of Missouri from 1857 to 1861, during the critical years just prior to the American Civil War.-Early years:...

 (D)
Hancock Lee Jackson (D) J. Proctor Knott
J. Proctor Knott
James Proctor Knott was a U.S. Representative from Kentucky and served as the 29th Governor of Kentucky from 1883 to 1887. Born in Kentucky, he moved to Missouri in 1850 and began his political career there...

 (D)
1859 5D, 1ID
Independent Democrat
Independent Democrat is a term occasionally adopted by American politicians to refer to their party affiliation. Several elected officials, including members of Congress, have identified as " Independent Democrats."...

, 1KN
1860
4D, 1ID, 1KN, 1R
5D, 1ID, 1KN Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen Arnold Douglas was an American politician from the western state of Illinois, and was the Northern Democratic Party nominee for President in 1860. He lost to the Republican Party's candidate, Abraham Lincoln, whom he had defeated two years earlier in a Senate contest following a famed...

 and Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson
Herschel Vespasian Johnson was an American politician. He was the 41st Governor of Georgia from 1853 to 1857 and the vice-presidential nominee of the Douglas wing of the Democratic Party in the 1860 US presidential election....

 (D)
1861 Claiborne Fox Jackson
Claiborne Fox Jackson
Claiborne Fox Jackson was a lawyer, soldier, and Democratic politician from Missouri. He was the 15th Governor of Missouri in 1861, then governor-in-exile for the Confederacy during the American Civil War.-Early life:...

 (D)
Thomas Caute Reynolds
Thomas Caute Reynolds
Thomas Caute Reynolds was a lawyer and politician. He was Lieutenant Governor of Missouri as the state considered secession and then was the second Confederate Governor of Missouri...

 (D)
Mordecai Oliver
Mordecai Oliver
Mordecai Oliver was an attorney and two-term U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Anderson County, Kentucky, Oliver attended the common schools and then studied law....

 (NU)
Aikman Welch (D) W. S. Moseley (D) Waldo P. Johnson
Waldo P. Johnson
Waldo Porter Johnson was a United States Senator from Missouri, and later a member of the Confederate Congress during the American Civil War....

 (D)
5D, 1NU, 1R
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Hamilton Rowan Gamble
Hamilton Rowan Gamble was the chief justice of the Missouri Supreme Court at the time of the Dred Scott Decision in 1852, when his colleagues voted to overturn the 28-year precedent in Misssouri of "once free always free". He wrote a dissenting opinion...

 (R)
Willard Preble Hall
Willard Preble Hall
William Willard Preble Hall was an American lawyer and politician. He served as the 17th Governor of Missouri from 1864 to 1865 during last years of the American Civil War.-Early years:...

 (R)
1862 George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham
George Caleb Bingham was an American artist whose paintings of American life in the frontier lands along the Missouri River exemplify the Luminist style. Left to languish in obscurity, Bingham's work was rediscovered in the 1930s...

 (D)
John B. Henderson
John B. Henderson
John Brooks Henderson was a United States Senator from Missouri and a co-author of the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution....

 (NU)
Robert Wilson
Robert Wilson (Missouri)
Robert Wilson was a United States Senator from Missouri.-Biography:Born near Staunton, Virginia, he moved to Howard County, Missouri in 1820 and taught school. In 1825 he was probate judge of Howard County and was clerk of the circuit and county courts from 1829 to 1840...

 (R)
1863 6NU, 3R
1864 Willard Preble Hall (R) vacant Thomas Theodore Crittenden
Thomas Theodore Crittenden
Thomas Theodore Crittenden was a United States colonel during the American Civil War, and served as the 24th Governor of Missouri from 1881 to 1885.-Early life and education:...

 (D)
B. Gratz Brown
B. Gratz Brown
Benjamin Gratz Brown was an American politician. He was a Senator, the 20th Governor of Missouri, and the Liberal Republican and Democratic Party Vice presidential candidate in the presidential election of 1872.-Early life:...

 (NU)
6NU, 2R, 1D Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...

 and Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson
Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States . As Vice-President of the United States in 1865, he succeeded Abraham Lincoln following the latter's assassination. Johnson then presided over the initial and contentious Reconstruction era of the United States following the American...

 (NU)
1865 Thomas Clement Fletcher
Thomas Clement Fletcher
Thomas Clement Fletcher was the 18th Governor of Missouri during the latter stages of the American Civil War and the early part of Reconstruction. He was the first Missouri governor to be born in the state....

 (R)
George Rappeen Smith (R) Francis A. Rodman (R) Robert Franklin Wingate (D) William Bishop
William Bishop (politician)
William Bishop was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1865 to 1869.-References:...

 (R)
Alonzo Thompson (R) 6R, 2D, 1NU
1866
1867 Charles D. Drake
Charles D. Drake
Charles Daniel Drake was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended St. Joseph's College in 1823 and 1824, and Patridge's Military Academy in 1824 and 1825; he was appointed midshipman in the United States Navy in 1825 and served four years, when he resigned...

 (R)
8R, 1D
1868 Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States as well as military commander during the Civil War and post-war Reconstruction periods. Under Grant's command, the Union Army defeated the Confederate military and ended the Confederate States of America...

 and Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax
Schuyler Colfax, Jr. was a United States Representative from Indiana , Speaker of the House of Representatives , and the 17th Vice President of the United States . To date, he is one of only two Americans to have served as both House speaker and vice president.President Ulysses S...

 (R)
1869 Joseph W. McClurg
Joseph W. McClurg
Joseph Washington McClurg was the 19th Governor of Missouri in the decade following the American Civil War. His stepfather was William Murphy.-Biography:...

 (R)
Edwin O. Stanard
Edwin O. Stanard
Edwin Obed Stanard was a nineteenth century politician, businessman and teacher from Missouri.Born in Newport, New Hampshire, Stanard moved to Iowa Territory with his parents in 1836, completed preparatory studies and moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1853. He taught school in Illinois in 1854 and...

 (R)
Horace B. Johnson (R) William Q. Dallmeyer
William Q. Dallmeyer
William Quintillis Dallmeyer was a German-born Missouri politician.William Quintillis Dallmeyer was born in Hanover, Germany. He emigrated to the United States in 1845, living in New York City and New Orleans, Louisiana, before settling in St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked in the dry goods...

 (R)
Daniel Draper (R) Carl Schurz
Carl Schurz
Carl Christian Schurz was a German revolutionary, American statesman and reformer, and Union Army General in the American Civil War. He was also an accomplished journalist, newspaper editor and orator, who in 1869 became the first German-born American elected to the United States Senate.His wife,...

 (R)
7R, 2D
1870
1871 B. Gratz Brown (LR) Joseph J. Gravely
Joseph J. Gravely
Joseph Jackson Gravely was a nineteenth century politician, lawyer and teacher from Virginia and Missouri.-Biography:...

 (LR)
Eugene F. Weigel (D) Andrew Jackson Baker (R) Samuel Hays
Samuel Hays (Missouri politician)
Samuel Hays was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1871 to 1873.-References:...

 (R)
Daniel T. Jewett
Daniel T. Jewett
Daniel Tarbox Jewett was a United States Senator from Missouri in 1870 and 1871. Born in Pittston, Maine, he completed preparatory studies, attended Colby College, graduated from Columbia College in 1830 and from the Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar and practiced in Bangor, Maine;...

 (R)
4R, 4D, 1LR
Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
Francis Preston Blair, Jr.
Francis Preston Blair, Jr. was an American politician and Union Army general during the American Civil War. He represented Missouri in both the House of Representatives and the Senate, and he was the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in 1868.-Early life and career:Blair was born in...

 (D)
1872 B. Gratz Brown (LR)
1873 Silas Woodson
Silas Woodson
Silas Woodson was the 21st Governor of Missouri, United States, between January 8, 1873 and January 12, 1875. He was notable for being the first Democrat elected to that position since the Civil War. No Republican would reach the office for over 30 years after Woodson's election. He was born in ...

 (D)
Charles Phillip Johnson (D) Henry Clay Ewing (D) Harvey Wallis Salmon
Harvey Wallis Salmon
Harvey Wallis Salmon was a U.S. politician from Missouri.-Biography:He was born in Greenville County, South Carolina. As a child, he re-settled in Morgan County, Missouri. At age 13, he was employed as a store clerk in Versailles, Missouri. In 1859, he entered into a partnership with his brother...

 (D)
George Boardman Clark (D) Lewis V. Bogy
Lewis V. Bogy
Lewis Vital Bogy was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Ste. Geneviève, he attended the public schools, was employed as clerk in a mercantile establishment, studied law in Illinois, graduated from Transylvania University Lewis Vital Bogy (April 9, 1813 September 20, 1877) was a United...

 (D)
9D, 4R
1874
1875 Charles Henry Hardin
Charles Henry Hardin
Charles Henry Hardin was one of the eight founders of Beta Theta Pi fraternity. Born in 1820 in Trimble County, Kentucky, he graduated from Miami University in 1840 and received his LL.D. from William Jewell College in 1890. He later became the 22nd Governor of Missouri between 1875 and 1877 and...

 (D)
Norman Jay Coleman (D) Michael Knowles McGrath (D) John A. Hockaday (D) Joseph Wayne Mercer
Joseph Wayne Mercer
Joseph Wayne Mercer was a U.S. politician from Missouri.-Biography:Joseph Wayne Mercer was born in Platte City, Missouri. He attended Chapel Hill College in Lafayette County, Missouri. During the American Civil War, he served in Confederate Army, and was wounded at the battles of Lexington, Pea...

 (D)
Thomas Holloday (D) Francis Cockrell
Francis Cockrell
Francis Marion Cockrell was a Confederate military commander and American politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a United States Senator from Missouri for five terms. He was a prominent member of the famed South–Cockrell–Hargis family of Southern politicians.-Early life:Cockrell was...

 (D)
13D
1876 Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel J. Tilden
Samuel Jones Tilden was the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in the disputed election of 1876, one of the most controversial American elections of the 19th century. He was the 25th Governor of New York...

 and Thomas A. Hendricks
Thomas A. Hendricks
Thomas Andrews Hendricks was an American politician who served as a Representative and a Senator from Indiana, the 16th Governor of Indiana , and the 21st Vice President of the United States...

 (D)
1877 John S. Phelps
John S. Phelps
John Smith Phelps was a politician, soldier during the American Civil War, and the 23rd Governor of Missouri.-Early life and career:...

 (D)
Henry Clay Brockmeyer (D) Jackson Leonidas Smith (D) Elijah Gates
Elijah Gates
Elijah Gates was an American politician from Missouri.-Early and personal life:...

 (D)
9D, 4R
David H. Armstrong
David H. Armstrong
David Hartley Armstrong was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, he attended Maine Wesleyan Seminary and taught school in New Bedford, Massachusetts from 1833 to 1837. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1837, and then to Lebanon, Illinois, where he taught at...

 (D)
1878
1879 James Shields
James Shields
James Shields was an American politician and United States Army officer who was born in Altmore, County Tyrone, Ireland. Shields, a Democrat, is the only person in United States history to serve as a U.S. Senator for three different states...

 (D)
12D, 1GB
United States Greenback Party
The Greenback Party was an American political party with an anti-monopoly ideology that was active between 1874 and 1884. Its name referred to paper money, or "greenbacks," that had been issued during the American Civil War and afterward...

George Graham Vest
George Graham Vest
George Graham Vest was a U.S. politician. Born in Frankfort, Kentucky, he was known for his skills in oration and debate. Vest, a lawyer as well as a politician, served as a Missouri Congressman, a Confederate Congressman during the Civil War, and finally a US Senator...

 (D)
1880 Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock
Winfield Scott Hancock was a career U.S. Army officer and the Democratic nominee for President of the United States in 1880. He served with distinction in the Army for four decades, including service in the Mexican-American War and as a Union general in the American Civil War...

 and William Hayden English
William Hayden English
William Hayden English was an American politician from Indiana.William English was most famous for his role in the passage of the infamous, pro-slavery Lecompton Constitution of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in 1858...

 (D)
1881 Thomas Theodore Crittenden (D) Robert Alexander Campbell (D) Daniel Harrison McIntyre (D) Phillip Edward Chappell
Phillip Edward Chappell
Phillip Edward Chappell was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1881 to 1885....

 (D)
John Walker (D) 6D, 4GB, 3R
1882
1883 14D
1884 Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland
Stephen Grover Cleveland was the 22nd and 24th president of the United States. Cleveland is the only president to serve two non-consecutive terms and therefore is the only individual to be counted twice in the numbering of the presidents...

 and Thomas A. Hendricks (D)
1885 John S. Marmaduke
John S. Marmaduke
John Sappington Marmaduke was a career military man and a West Point graduate. He is known for his service as a Confederate Major general during the American Civil War...

 (D)
Albert P. Morehouse
Albert P. Morehouse
Albert Pickett Morehouse was the 26th Governor of Missouri from 1887 to 1889.Morehouse was born in Delaware County, Ohio and moved to Maryville, Missouri in 1856. He was admitted to the bar and began practice in Montgomery County, Iowa.At the beginning of the American Civil War, he moved back to...

 (D)
Banton Gallitin Boone (D) James M. Seibert
James M. Seibert
James M. Seibert was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1885 to 1889.-References:...

 (D)
12D, 2R
1886
1887
1888 Albert P. Morehouse (D) vacant Grover Cleveland and Allen G. Thurman
Allen G. Thurman
Allen Granberry Thurman was a Democratic Representative and Senator from Ohio, as well as the nominee of the Democratic Party for Vice President of the United States in 1888.-Biography:...

 (D)
1889 David R. Francis
David R. Francis
David Rowland Francis was an American politician. He served in various positions including Mayor of Saint Louis, the 27th Governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia between 1916 and 1917, during the Russian Revolution of 1917...

 (D)
Stephen Hugh Claycomb (D) Alexander A. Lesueur (D) John M. Wood
John M. Wood
John M. Wood was a U.S. Representative from Maine.Born in Minisink, New York, Wood attended the common schools. He engaged in railroad construction in New Jersey and moved to Portland, Maine, in 1846. He was one of the contractors in the construction of the Atlantic & St. Lawrence Railroad, and he...

 (D)
Edward T. Noland
Edward T. Noland
Edward T. Noland was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1889 to 1890. -References:...

 (D)
James M. Seibert (D) 10D, 4R
1890 Lawrence Vest Stephens
Lon Vest Stephens
Lawrence "Lon" Vest Stephens was a U.S. politician from Missouri. He served as State Treasurer of Missouri from 1890 to 1897, and as the 29th Governor of Missouri from 1897 to 1901.-Early life and education:...

 (D)
1891 14D
1892 Grover Cleveland and Adlai E. Stevenson I (D)
1893 William J. Stone
William J. Stone
William Joel Stone was a Democratic politician from Missouri who represented his state in the United States House of Representatives from 1885 to 1891, and in the U.S...

 (D)
John Baptiste O'Meara (D) Robert Franklin Walker (D) 13D, 2R
1894 14D, 1R
1895 10R, 5D
1896 11R, 4D William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan
William Jennings Bryan was an American politician in the late-19th and early-20th centuries. He was a dominant force in the liberal wing of the Democratic Party, standing three times as its candidate for President of the United States...

 (D) and Arthur Sewall
Arthur Sewall
Arthur Sewall was a U.S. Democratic politician from Maine most notable as William Jennings Bryan's first running mate in 1896. As the Populist Party nominee, Bryan had another running mate as well, Thomas E. Watson...

 (D) and Thomas E. Watson
Thomas E. Watson
Thomas Edward "Tom" Watson was an American politician, newspaper editor, and writer from Georgia. In the 1890s Watson championed poor farmers as a leader of the Populist Party, articulating an agrarian political viewpoint while attacking business, bankers, railroads, Democratic President Grover...

 (P)
1897 Lawrence Vest Stephens (D) August Henry Bolte (D) Edward Coke Crow
Edward Coke Crow
Edward Coke Crow was a United States Democratic Attorney General from the state of Missouri.-Life:He was born in Oregon, Missouri as the sixth of seven children born to Elizabeth Hopkins Barnes and George Washington Crow....

 (D)
Frank L. Pitts
Frank L. Pitts
Frank L. Pitts was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1897 to 1901.-References:...

 (D)
12D, 3R
1898
1899
1900 William Jennings Bryan and Adlai E. Stevenson I
1901 Alexander Monroe Dockery
Alexander Monroe Dockery
Alexander Monroe Dockery was a United States Representative and the 30th Governor of Missouri....

 (D)
John Adams Lee (D) Sam Baker Cook (D) Robert P. Williams
Robert P. Williams
Robert P. Williams was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1901 to 1905.-References:...

 (D)
Albert Otis Allen (D) 13D, 2R
1902
1903 William J. Stone (D) 12D, 3R
Thomas L. Rubey
Thomas L. Rubey
Thomas Lewis Rubey was a U.S. Representative from Missouri.Born in Lebanon, Missouri, Rubey attended the common schools. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri in 1885 and served as Superintendent of schools of Lebanon from 1886 to 1891...

 (D)
15D, 1R
1904 Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore Roosevelt
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt was the 26th President of the United States . He is noted for his exuberant personality, range of interests and achievements, and his leadership of the Progressive Movement, as well as his "cowboy" persona and robust masculinity...

 and Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles W. Fairbanks
Charles Warren Fairbanks was a Senator from Indiana and the 26th Vice President of the United States ....

 (R)
1905 Joseph W. Folk
Joseph W. Folk
Joseph "Holy Joe" Wingate Folk was an American lawyer, reformer, and politician from St. Louis, Missouri.Raised in a strict Baptist household in Brownsville, Tennessee, Folk first made his reputation as a lawyer for transit workers in the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900...

 (D)
John C. McKinley
John C. McKinley
John C. McKinley was a lawyer and Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 26th Lieutenant Governor as well as a member of the Missouri Senate.-Personal history:...

 (R)
John Ephraim Swanger (R) Herbert S. Hadley
Herbert S. Hadley
Herbert Spencer Hadley was an American lawyer and a Republican Party politician from St. Louis, Missouri. Born in Olathe, Kansas, he was Missouri Attorney General from 1905 to 1909 and was the 32nd Governor of Missouri from 1909 to 1913. As Attorney General, he successfully prosecuted Standard Oil...

 (R)
Jacob F. Gmelich
Jacob F. Gmelich
Jacob F. Gmelich was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1905 to 1909.-References:...

 (R)
William Werner Wilder (R) William Warner
William Warner (Missouri)
William Warner was an American lawyer and politician from Kansas City, Missouri. He represented Missouri in both the U.S. House and Senate. He was mayor of Kansas City in 1871-72....

 (R)
9R, 7D
1906
10R, 6D
1907 12D, 4R
1908 William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft
William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...

 and James S. Sherman
James S. Sherman
James Schoolcraft Sherman was a United States Representative from New York and the 27th Vice President of the United States . He was a member of the Baldwin, Hoar, and Sherman families.-Early life:...

 (R)
1909 Herbert S. Hadley (R) Jacob F. Gmelich (R) Cornelius Roach (D) Elliot Woolfolk Major
Elliot Woolfolk Major
Elliot Woolfolk Major was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pike County, Missouri.-Biography:...

 (D)
James Cowgill
James Cowgill
James Cowgill was State Treasurer of Missouri from 1908 to 1912 and Kansas City, Missouri Mayor from 1918 until he died in office....

 (D)
John Pemberton Gordon (D) 10D, 6R
1910
1911 James A. Reed
James A. Reed
James Alexander Reed was an American Democratic Party politician from Missouri.-Biography:Reed was born on a farm in Richland County, Ohio. He moved with his family to Cedar Rapids, Iowa at the age of 3. He went to public schools and attended Coe College...

 (D)
14D, 2R
1912 Woodrow Wilson
Woodrow Wilson
Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...

 and Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas R. Marshall
Thomas Riley Marshall was an American Democratic politician who served as the 28th Vice President of the United States under Woodrow Wilson...

 (D)
1913 Elliot Woolfolk Major (D) William Rock Painter
William Rock Painter
William Rock Painter was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 28th Lieutenant Governor and later a State Senator.-Personal history:...

 (D)
John Tull Barker (D) Edwin P. Deal
Edwin P. Deal
Edwin P. Deal was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1913 to 1917.-Further reading:...

 (D)
15D, 1R
1914
1915 14D, 2R
1916
1917 Frederick D. Gardner
Frederick D. Gardner
Frederick "Fred" Dozier Gardner , an American businessman and coffin and hearse manufacturer from St. Louis, Missouri, served as the 34th Governor of Missouri from 1917 to 1921.-Political career:...

 (D)
Wallace Crossley
Wallace Crossley
Wallace Crossley was a Missouri lieutenant governor and publisher of The Daily Star-Journal in Warrensburg, Missouri.Crossley was born in Bellair, Missouri in Cooper County, Missouri....

 (D)
John Leo Sullivan (D) Frank Winton McAllister (D) George H. Middelkamp
George H. Middelkamp
George H. Middelkamp was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1917 to 1921.-References:...

 (D)
George Ernst Hackman (R)
1918
Xenophon P. Wilfley
Xenophon P. Wilfley
Xenophon Pierce Wilfley was a Democratic Party politician who represented the state of Missouri in the U.S. Senate for five months in 1918.Wilfley was born near Mexico, Missouri, and attended local country schools in his youth...

 (D)
1919 Selden P. Spencer
Selden P. Spencer
Selden Palmer Spencer was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Erie, Pennsylvania, he attended the public schools there and graduated from Yale College in 1884 and from the law school of Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1886. He was admitted to the bar, commencing...

 (R)
11D, 5R
1920 Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th President of the United States . A Republican from Ohio, Harding was an influential self-made newspaper publisher. He served in the Ohio Senate , as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator...

 and Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Coolidge
John Calvin Coolidge, Jr. was the 30th President of the United States . A Republican lawyer from Vermont, Coolidge worked his way up the ladder of Massachusetts state politics, eventually becoming governor of that state...

 (R)
1921 Arthur M. Hyde
Arthur M. Hyde
Arthur Mastick Hyde was an American Republican politician who served as the 35th Governor of Missouri and U.S. Secretary of Agriculture.-Biography:...

 (R)
Hiram Lloyd (R) Charles U. Becker (R) Jesse W. Barrett (R) Lorenzo Dow Thompson
Lorenzo Dow Thompson
Lorenzo Dow Thompson was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1921 to 1925.-References:...

 (R)
14R, 2D
1922
1923 11D, 5R
1924 Calvin Coolidge and Charles G. Dawes
Charles G. Dawes
Charles Gates Dawes was an American banker and politician who was the 30th Vice President of the United States . For his work on the Dawes Plan for World War I reparations he was a co-recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served in the First World War, was U.S...

 (R)
1925 Sam Aaron Baker
Sam Aaron Baker
Samuel Aaron Baker was an American teacher and Republican politician from Jefferson City, Missouri. Born in 1874 in Patterson, Missouri, he served Missouri as the state superintendent of schools from 1919 to 1923 and was the 36th Governor of Missouri from 1925 until 1929...

 (R)
Philip Allen Bennett
Philip Allen Bennett
Philip Allen Bennett was a Republican politician from the state of Missouri. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Missouri's 6th District during the 77th Congress. Prior to that Bennett was the 31st Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and served in the Missouri...

 (R)
Robert William Otto (R) C. Eugene Stephens
C. Eugene Stephens
C. Eugene Stephens was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1925 to 1929....

 (R)
Lorenzo Dow Thompson (R) 9D, 7R
North Todd Gentry (R) George Howard Williams
George Howard Williams
George Howard Williams was a U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1925 to 1926. He served as a Republican. He received his LLB from Washington University in St. Louis in 1897. He was born in California, Missouri, and died in Sarasota, Florida.-External links:*...

 (R)
1926
1927 Harry B. Hawes
Harry B. Hawes
Harry Bartow Hawes was an American politician who served as a Democratic member of the U.S. House and the U.S. Senate from Missouri....

 (R)
12D, 4R
1928 Herbert Hoover
Herbert Hoover
Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States . Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author. As the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business...

 and Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis
Charles Curtis was a United States Representative, a longtime United States Senator from Kansas later chosen as Senate Majority Leader by his Republican colleagues, and the 31st Vice President of the United States...

 (R)
1929 Henry S. Caulfield
Henry S. Caulfield
Henry Stewart Caulfield was an American lawyer and Republican politician from St. Louis, Missouri. He represented Missouri in the U.S. House from 1907 to 1909 and was the 37th Governor of Missouri from 1929 to 1933...

 (R)
Edward Henry Winter
Edward Henry Winter
Edward Henry Winter was an American politician and newspaper publisher from the state of Missouri. He served as the states 32nd Lieutenant Governor as well as in the Missouri General Assembly. Winter was a member of the Republican Party.-Personal history:Edward H...

 (R)
Stratton Shartel (R) Larry Brunk
Larry Brunk
Larry Brunk was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1929 to 1933.-References:...

 (R)
Roscoe C. Patterson
Roscoe C. Patterson
Roscoe Conkling Patterson was a United States Representative and Senator from Missouri.Born in Springfield, Missouri, he attended public and private schools, Drury College, and the University of Missouri in Columbia. He graduated from the law department of Washington University Roscoe Conkling...

 (R)
10R, 6D
1930
1931 10D, 6R
1932 Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt , also known by his initials, FDR, was the 32nd President of the United States and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war...

 and John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner
John Nance Garner, IV , was the 32nd Vice President of the United States and the 44th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives .- Early life and family :...

 (D)
1933 Guy Brasfield Park
Guy Brasfield Park
Guy Brasfield Park was a politician from the U.S. State of Missouri.Park was born in Platte City, Missouri and he graduated from law school at the University of Missouri. Park practiced law in Platte City, twice winning election to be the prosecuting attorney for Platte County...

 (D)
Frank Gaines Harris
Frank Gaines Harris
Frank Gaines Harris was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 33rd Lieutenant Governor and held that office longer than anyone else to date.-Personal history:...

 (D)
Dwight H. Brown (D) Roy M. McKittrick (D) Richard R. Nacy
Richard R. Nacy
Richard R. Nacy , was a U.S. politician from Missouri.-Biography:Richard R. Nacy was born and raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. As a young boy, he was a very talented baseball player and was heavily scouted by the major leagues. However, his father died when he was 16 and he had to quit school...

 (D)
Forrest Smith
Forrest Smith
Forrest Smith was the 42nd Governor of Missouri. He was a Democrat.-Personal:Forrest Smith was born February 14, 1886 near Hardin in Ray County, Missouri. After receiving his secondary education at Woodson Institute in Richmond, Missouri, Smith attended Westminster College...

 (D)
Joel B. Clark (D) 13D
1934
1935 Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman was the 33rd President of the United States . As President Franklin D. Roosevelt's third vice president and the 34th Vice President of the United States , he succeeded to the presidency on April 12, 1945, when President Roosevelt died less than three months after beginning his...

 (D)
12D, 1R
1936
1937 Lloyd Crow Stark (D) Robert W. Winn
Robert W. Winn
Robert William Winn was a U.S. politician from Missouri.He was born and raised in New London, Missouri. From 1931 to 1937 he served as Clerk of Ralls County, Missouri. In 1937, he became State Treasurer of Missouri, serving in that capacity until January 1941, when he was appointed Commissioner of...

 (D)
1938
1939
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Henry A. Wallace
Henry A. Wallace
Henry Agard Wallace was the 33rd Vice President of the United States , the Secretary of Agriculture , and the Secretary of Commerce . In the 1948 presidential election, Wallace was the nominee of the Progressive Party.-Early life:Henry A...

 (D)
1941 Forrest C. Donnell
Forrest C. Donnell
Forrest C. Donnell was a United States Senator and the 40th Governor of Missouri. He was a Republican.-Early life:Donnell was born in Quitman, Missouri....

 (R)
Wilson Bell
Wilson Bell
Wilson Bell was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1941 to 1945.-References:...

 (D)
10D, 3R
1942
1943 8R, 5D
1944 Gregory C. Stockard (R) Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman (D)
1945 Phil M. Donnelly
Phil M. Donnelly
Philip Matthew Donnelly was the 41st and 43rd Governor of Missouri. He was a Democrat. Donnelly and Christopher S. "Kit" Bond are unique in being the only Missouri governors to serve two non-consecutive terms....

 (D)
Walter Naylor Davis
Walter Naylor Davis
Walter Naylor Davis was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the state's 34th Lieutenant Governor and a former commissioner of the Missouri Supreme Court.-Personal history:...

 (D)
Wilson Bell (D) Jonathan E. "Buck" Taylor (D) Robert W. Winn (D) Frank P. Briggs
Frank P. Briggs
Frank Parks Briggs was a United States Senator from Missouri. Born in Armstrong, Missouri, he attended Armstrong and Fayette schools and Central College at Fayette from 1911 to 1914. He graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1915, engaged in the newspaper business that year, and...

 (D)
Forrest C. Donnell (R) 7D, 6R
1946
1947 Edgar C. Nelson (D) James P. Kem
James P. Kem
James Preston Kem represented Missouri in the United States Senate from 1947 to 1953.James P. Kem was born in Macon, Missouri. He attended Blees Military Academy, then graduated from the University of Missouri in 1910, and Harvard Law School in 1913. He was admitted to the bar in 1913 and...

 (D)
9R, 3D
1948 Harry S. Truman and Alben W. Barkley
Alben W. Barkley
Alben William Barkley was an American politician in the Democratic Party who served as the 35th Vice President of the United States , under President Harry S. Truman....

 (D)
Richard R. Nacy (D)
1949 Forrest Smith
Forrest Smith
Forrest Smith was the 42nd Governor of Missouri. He was a Democrat.-Personal:Forrest Smith was born February 14, 1886 near Hardin in Ray County, Missouri. After receiving his secondary education at Woodson Institute in Richmond, Missouri, Smith attended Westminster College...

 (D)
James T. Blair, Jr.
James T. Blair, Jr.
James Thomas Blair, Jr. was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the 44th Governor of Missouri as well as serving as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri and a member of the Missouri House of Representatives....

 (D)
Walter H. Toberman (D) Mount Etna Morris
Mount Etna Morris
Mount Etna Morris was a U.S. politician from Missouri. A Democrat, he served three non-consecutive terms as State Treasurer of Missouri as well as Missouri Director of Revenue and two terms in the Missouri House of Representatives.-Early life and education:Mount Etna Morris was born September 1,...

 (D)
W. H. Holmes (D) 12D, 1R
1950
1951 Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
Thomas C. Hennings, Jr.
Thomas Carey Hennings, Jr. was an American political figure from Missouri, and a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives , and the United States Senate ....

 (D)
9D, 4R
1952 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th President of the United States, from 1953 until 1961. He was a five-star general in the United States Army...

 and Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon
Richard Milhous Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. The only president to resign the office, Nixon had previously served as a US representative and senator from California and as the 36th Vice President of the United States from 1953 to 1961 under...

 
1953 Phil M. Donnelly (D) John M. Dalton
John M. Dalton
John Montgomery Dalton was a Democratic politician from the state of Missouri. He was the 45th Governor of Missouri and the states' 34th Attorney General.-Personal history:...

 (D)
George Hubert Bates
George Hubert Bates
George Hubert Bates was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1953 to 1957.-References:...

 (D)
Haskell Holman (D) Stuart Symington
Stuart Symington
William Stuart Symington was a businessman and political figure from Missouri. He served as the first Secretary of the Air Force from 1947 to 1950 and was a Democratic United States Senator from Missouri from 1953 to 1976.-Education and business career:...

 (D)
7D, 4R
1954
1955 9D, 2R
1956 Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver
Estes Kefauver
Carey Estes Kefauver July 26, 1903 – August 10, 1963) was an American politician from Tennessee. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the U.S...

 
1957 James T. Blair, Jr. (D) Edward V. Long
Edward V. Long
Edward Vaughn Long was a United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Democratic Party. He served in the United States Senate from 1960 until 1968....

 (D)
Mount Etna Morris (D) 10D, 1R
1958
1959
1960 Robert W. Crawford (D) John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

 and Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson
Lyndon Baines Johnson , often referred to as LBJ, was the 36th President of the United States after his service as the 37th Vice President of the United States...

 
1961 John M. Dalton (D) Hilary A. Bush
Hilary A. Bush
Hilary Ashby Bush was a Democratic Party politician who was Jackson County, Missouri prosecutor in the 1940s and 1950s and Missouri's Lieutenant Governor in the 1960s....

 (D)
Warren E. Hearnes
Warren E. Hearnes
Warren Eastman Hearnes was an American politician and the 46th Governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1973. He was the first Missouri Governor eligible to serve two consecutive four year terms, and a lifelong Democrat...

 (D)
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Eagleton
Thomas Francis Eagleton was a United States Senator from Missouri, serving from 1968–1987. He is best remembered for briefly being the Democratic vice presidential nominee under George McGovern in 1972...

 (D)
Milton Carpenter
Milton Carpenter
Milton Carpenter was an American politician. He served as the State Treasurer of Missouri from 1961 to 1965.-References:...

 (D)
Edward V. Long (D) 9D, 2R
1962
1963 8D, 2R
1964 Lyndon B. Johnson and Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Humphrey
Hubert Horatio Humphrey, Jr. , served under President Lyndon B. Johnson as the 38th Vice President of the United States. Humphrey twice served as a United States Senator from Minnesota, and served as Democratic Majority Whip. He was a founder of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party and...

 
1965 Warren E. Hearnes (D) Thomas Eagleton (D) James Kirkpatrick (D) Norman H. Anderson (D) Mount Etna Morris (D)
1966
1967
1968 Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnew
Spiro Agnew
Spiro Theodore Agnew was the 39th Vice President of the United States , serving under President Richard Nixon, and the 55th Governor of Maryland...

 (R)
1969 William S. Morris (D) John Danforth
John Danforth
John Claggett "Jack" Danforth is a former United States Ambassador to the United Nations and former Republican United States Senator from Missouri. He is an ordained Episcopal priest. Danforth is married to Sally D. Danforth and has five adult children.-Education and early career:Danforth was born...

 (R)
William Edmond Robinson
William Edmond Robinson
William Edmond Robinson was an American politician. A Democrat, he served one term as Missouri State Treasurer from 1969 to 1973.-Early life:...

 (D)
Thomas Eagleton (D) 9D, 1R
1970
1971 Kit Bond
Kit Bond
Christopher Samuel "Kit" Bond is a former United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Republican Party. First elected to the U.S. Senate in 1986, he defeated Democrat Harriett Woods by a margin of 53%-47%. He was re-elected in 1992, 1998, and 2004...

 (R)
1972
1973 Kit Bond (R) Bill Phelps
Bill Phelps
William C. Phelps is a Republican politician and lawyer from Missouri. Phelps was born and raised in Nevada, Missouri. He attended the University of Missouri and graduated with a degree in economics in 1956 and a law degree in 1959...

 (R)
Jim Spainhower
Jim Spainhower
James "Jim" Spainhower is a U.S. Democratic politician from Missouri. He served four terms in the Missouri House of Representatives and two terms as the Missouri State Treasurer.-Early life:...

 (D)
John Ashcroft
John Ashcroft
John David Ashcroft is a United States politician who served as the 79th United States Attorney General, from 2001 until 2005, appointed by President George W. Bush. Ashcroft previously served as the 50th Governor of Missouri and a U.S...

 (R)
1974
1975 George W. Lehr
George W. Lehr
George W. Lehr was an American Democratic politician from Missouri who served as the state's auditor from 1974 to 1977....

 (D)
8D, 2R
1976 Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...

 and Walter Mondale
Walter Mondale
Walter Frederick "Fritz" Mondale is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as the 42nd Vice President of the United States , under President Jimmy Carter, and as a United States Senator for Minnesota...

 (D)
1977 Joseph P. Teasdale (D) John Ashcroft (R) Thomas M. Keyes (D) John C. Danforth (R)
1978 James Antonio
James Antonio
James F. Antonio served as state auditor of the U.S. state of Missouri. A Republican from Cole County, he served from 1978 until his resignation in mid-1984.-References:...

 (R)
1979
1980 Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Wilson Reagan was the 40th President of the United States , the 33rd Governor of California and, prior to that, a radio, film and television actor....

 and George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush
George Herbert Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States . He had previously served as the 43rd Vice President of the United States , a congressman, an ambassador, and Director of Central Intelligence.Bush was born in Milton, Massachusetts, to...

 (R)
1981 Kit Bond (R) Ken Rothman
Ken Rothman
Kenneth J. Rothman is an American lawyer and politician from Missouri. He served as Lieutenant Governor of Missouri from 1981 to 1985....

 (D)
Mel Carnahan
Mel Carnahan
Melvin Eugene "Mel" Carnahan was an American politician. A Democrat, he served as the 51st Governor of Missouri from 1993 to 2000. He died in a plane crash on the Pevely and Hillsboro, Missouri border during a campaign for the U.S...

 (D)
6D, 4R
1982
1983 6D, 3R
1984
Margaret B. Kelly
Margaret B. Kelly
Margaret Blake Kelly is an American accountant and politician from Missouri. She served as the State Auditor of Missouri from 1984 to 1999. She was the first woman to hold statewide office in Missouri, and the fourth Certified Public Accountant to hold the auditor's position. She is a...

 (R)
1985 John Ashcroft (R) Harriet Woods (D) Roy Blunt
Roy Blunt
Roy D. Blunt is the junior United States Senator from Missouri. He is a member of the Republican Party. His Senate seat was previously held by Republican Kit Bond, until his retirement....

 (R)
William L. Webster
William L. Webster
William L. Webster is a former American politician and convicted felon from Missouri.-Early life and career:William Webster is the son of the late Richard M. Webster, who was a prominent Missouri State Senator and Janet Webster. Webster was born and raised in Carthage, Missouri and was a graduate...

 (R)
Wendell Bailey
Wendell Bailey
R. Wendell Bailey is an American politician from Missouri. He graduated from Southwest Missouri State University with a degree in Business Administration and owned an automobile dealership in Willow Springs....

 (R)
1986
1987 Kit Bond (R) 5D, 4R
1988 George H. W. Bush and Dan Quayle
Dan Quayle
James Danforth "Dan" Quayle served as the 44th Vice President of the United States, serving with President George H. W. Bush . He served as a U.S. Representative and U.S. Senator from the state of Indiana....

 (R)
1989 Mel Carnahan (D)
1990
1991 6D, 3R
1992 Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
William Jefferson "Bill" Clinton is an American politician who served as the 42nd President of the United States from 1993 to 2001. Inaugurated at age 46, he was the third-youngest president. He took office at the end of the Cold War, and was the first president of the baby boomer generation...

 and Al Gore
Al Gore
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr. served as the 45th Vice President of the United States , under President Bill Clinton. He was the Democratic Party's nominee for President in the 2000 U.S. presidential election....

 (D)
1993 Mel Carnahan (D) Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson
Roger B. Wilson is an American politician who was the 52nd Governor of Missouri from October 16, 2000 to January 8, 2001. He is a Democrat.- Early Life and education :...

 (D)
Judi Moriarty
Judith Moriarty
Judith K. Moriarty is an American politician from Missouri. She was the first woman to serve as Missouri Secretary of State....

 (D)
Jay Nixon
Jay Nixon
Jeremiah Wilson "Jay" Nixon, Sr. is the 55th and current Governor of the U.S. state of Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as Missouri's Attorney General before his election in 2008.-Political career:...

 (D)
Bob Holden
Bob Holden
Robert Lee "Bob" Holden, Jr. is an American politician of the Democratic Party who served as the 53rd Governor of Missouri.-Early life:...

 (D)
1994
Richard Hanson
Richard Hanson (Missouri politician)
Richard Hanson served as secretary of state of Missouri in 1994 following the removal from office of his predecessor, Judith Moriarty.A Democrat from Cole County, Hanson served on an interim basis in 1994 from the time of Moriarty's removal from office by the Missouri Supreme Court following her...

 (D)
1995 Bekki Cook
Bekki Cook
Rebecca McDowell Cook is a politician from Missouri, USA. She served as Missouri Secretary of State from December 1994 to January 2001....

 (D)
John Ashcroft (R)
1996
1997 5D, 4R
1998
1999 Claire McCaskill
Claire McCaskill
Claire Conner McCaskill is the senior United States Senator from Missouri and a member of the Democratic Party. She defeated Republican incumbent Jim Talent in the 2006 U.S. Senate election, by a margin of 49.6% to 47.3%. She is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate from Missouri in her own...

 (D)
2000 George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 and Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce "Dick" Cheney served as the 46th Vice President of the United States , under George W. Bush....

 (R)
Roger B. Wilson (D) Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell
Joe Maxwell is an American attorney and former Lieutenant Governor for the state of Missouri. He is a Democrat who also served in the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri Senate.-Personal history:...

 (D)
2001 Bob Holden (D) Matt Blunt
Matt Blunt
Matthew Roy Blunt served as the 54th Governor of Missouri from 2005 to 2009. Before his election as governor, Blunt served ten years in the United States Navy, was elected to serve in the Missouri General Assembly in 1998 and as Missouri's Secretary of State in 2000.A Republican, Blunt was elected...

 (R)
Nancy Farmer
Nancy Farmer (politician)
For the author, see Nancy FarmerNancy Farmer is Missouri politician who was the 43rd State Treasurer of Missouri, serving from 2001 to 2005....

 (D)
Jean Carnahan
Jean Carnahan
Jean Anne Carpenter Carnahan is an American politician and writer who served in the United States Senate from 2001 to 2002. A Democrat, she was appointed to the Senate to fill the seat of her posthumously elected husband, becoming the first woman to represent Missouri in the Senate.-Biography:Born...

 (D)
5R, 4D
2002
Jim Talent
Jim Talent
James Matthes "Jim" Talent is an American politician and former senator from Missouri. He is a Republican and resided in the St. Louis area while serving in elected office. He identifies with the conservative wing of the Republican party, being particularly outspoken on judicial appointments,...

 (R)
2003
2004
2005 Matt Blunt (R) Peter Kinder
Peter Kinder
Peter D. Kinder is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri. He was elected Lieutenant Governor of Missouri in 2004 as Matt Blunt was elected Governor. Kinder was reelected in 2008 at the same time Jay Nixon was elected Governor. Kinder is a member of the Republican Party...

 (R)
Robin Carnahan
Robin Carnahan
Robin Carnahan is an American politician, daughter of Missouri politicians Mel and Jean Carnahan and the current Missouri Secretary of State. She is a member of the Democratic Party and was the Democratic nominee for the U.S. Senate in 2010, to replace retiring Republican Sen...

 (D)
Sarah Steelman
Sarah Steelman
Sarah Steelman is an American politician from Missouri, serving as State Treasurer from 2005 to 2009. She did not run for re-election as State Treasurer in 2008, having run for Governor, and was succeeded in office by Democrat Clint Zweifel on January 12, 2009...

 (R)
2006
2007 Susan Montee
Susan Montee
Susan Montee is an American politician from the U.S. state of Missouri who served as the State Auditor of Missouri. She won the election in November 2006 and was sworn into her position on January 4, 2007. She is the third woman in succession to serve as State Auditor of Missouri. She succeeded...

 (D)
Claire McCaskill (D)
2008 20R, 14D 92R, 71D John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....

 and Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
Sarah Louise Palin is an American politician, commentator and author. As the Republican Party nominee for Vice President in the 2008 presidential election, she was the first Alaskan on the national ticket of a major party and first Republican woman nominated for the vice-presidency.She was...

 (R)
2009 Jay Nixon (D) Chris Koster (D) Clint Zweifel (D) 23R, 11D 89R, 74D
2010
2011 Tom Schweich
Tom Schweich
Thomas A. "Tom" Schweich is an American politician and lawyer who has served as Coordinator for Counternarcotics and Justice Reform in Afghanistan. While in that position, he was given the rank of Ambassador by U.S. President George W. Bush. In the 2010 election in Missouri, Schweich won the race...

(R)
27R, 7D 106R, 56D, 1Vac Roy Blunt (R) 6R, 3D
YearGovernorLieutenant GovernorSecretary of StateAttorney General
Missouri Attorney General
The Office of the Missouri Attorney General was created in 1806 when Missouri was part of the Louisiana Territory. Missouri's first Constitution in 1820 provided for an appointed Attorney General, but since the 1865 Constitution, the Attorney General has been elected...

Treasurer
State Treasurer of Missouri
The State Treasurer of Missouri is a statewide elected official responsible for serving as Missouri's chief financial officer. The current State Treasurer is Clint Zweifel.-Duties of the State Treasurer:...

AuditorState Senate
Missouri Senate
The Missouri State Senate is the upper chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 34 members, representing districts with an average population of 160,000...

State House
Missouri House of Representatives
The Missouri House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the Missouri General Assembly. It has 163 members, representing districts with an average size of 31,000 residents. House members are elected for two-year terms during general elections held in even-numbered years.In 1992 Missouri...

U.S. Senator (Class I)U.S. Senator (Class III)U.S. House|Electoral College votes
United States presidential election
Elections for President and Vice President of the United States are indirect elections in which voters cast ballots for a slate of electors of the U.S. Electoral College, who in turn directly elect the President and Vice President...

Executive offices|State Legislature|United States Congress
United States Congressional Delegations from Missouri
These are tables of congressional delegations from Missouri to the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives. -United States Senate:-Delegates from Missouri Territory:...


See also

  • Law and government in Missouri
  • Elections in Missouri
    Elections in Missouri
    -Gubernatorial:*Missouri gubernatorial election, 2004*Missouri gubernatorial election, 2008-External links:* at the Missouri Secretary of State official website...

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