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August 10, 1821 - Missouri is the 24th state admitted to the Union. Missouri was admitted as a slave state on August 10, 1821, after an agreement known as The Missouri Compromise designated Missouri as a slave state while Maine would be admitted as a free state.
Area - 69,709 sq. miles Capital - Jefferson City © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock Hancock
Motto - Salus populi suprema lex esto (Latin - Let the welfare of the people be the supreme law.) Nickname - Show Me State

- A portion of the Territory of Louisiana becomes the Territory of Missouri in 1812.
- The issue of slavery in the 1820 Missouri statehood controversy becomes a national issue
- The "Missouri Compromise" of 1920 will allow Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, keeping the balance of slave and free states equal.
- Alexander McNair is elected in 1820 as Missouri's first governor.
- In 1821 President James Monroe signs the bill admitting Missouri as the 24^th state.
- The St. Charles was designated temporary state capitol in 1821.
- In 1836 abolitionists send petitions to the US Congress. Senator Thomas Hart Benton verbally attacks them for doing so.
- Governor Lilburn Boggs issued the "Extermination Order" in 1838 demanding that members of the Mormon church leave the state of Missouri.
- Missouri bans free blacks from settling in the state in 1844.
- On March 4, 1849 US Senator David Rice Atchison, from Missouri, was President for a day.
- The 1861 "Rebel Legislature" of Missouri adopts an Act of Secession.
- January 11- Slavery abolished in Missouri by an ordinance on January 11, 1865, making Missouri the first slave state to free its slaves before the adoption of the 13^th Amendment to the US Constitution
- Missouri's second Constitution is adopted on April 10, 1865. The new constitution excludes former Confederate sympathizers from the vote and certain occupations, severely limiting their civil rights.
- Phoebe W. Couzins, in 1887, becomes the first Woman US Marshal in our nation's history.
- Primary election law is adopted in 1907 in Missouri.
- US senators from Missouri were elected by the General Assembly prior to 1913 when voters were given the right to directly elect Senators.
- Governor Frederick D. Gardner signs a 1919 law granting the presidential vote to women
- 1919 Missouri becomes the 11th state to ratify the 19th Amendment granting the vote to women.
- The fist Woman to vote in all of Missouri's history is Marie Byrum in 1920.
- Mellcene T. Smith and Sarah Lucille Turner, in 1922, become the first women elected to the Missouri state legislature.
- U. Senator Harry S. Truman of Independence is elected Vice President in 1944.
- US Vice President Harry S Truman becomes the 33rd President upon the death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1945. © Copyright 2005 Roger W Hancock
- President Harry S Truman's second term beginning in 1948 is his first to be elected as the President of the United States of America.
- Leonor K. Sullivan in 1952 becomes Missouri's first woman U. S. Representative.
- Mary Gant in 1972 becomes Missouri's first woman state senator
- Gwen B. Giles became Missouri's first African-American woman state senator in 1977.
- May 30 - Margaret B. Kelly becomes the first woman on May 30, 1984 to hold an appointed statewide office in Missouri when she was appointed to the office of State Auditor
- Ann K. Covington in 1987 becomes the first woman appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court.
- Richard Gephardt, US Congressman from Missouri, running for the Democratic nomination in 1988 in Missouri's first presidential primary.
- John Ashcroft in 2001 is ratifies as US Attorney General.

One Vote Counts in Missouri.
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