. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. JOHN MILLKR. 28 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. to accept the office of Surveyor-General of Missouri, Illinois andArkansas. Ilis death occurred inJetierson county, Missouri, Auo^.25, 1S44, at the aofc of tifty-fouryears. LiLBUKN W. BooGs, sixth (tOV-ernor of Missouri, was n native ofKentucky, his hiith occurrino; atLexinoton, in 1790; was a soldierin the AVar of 1S12 and moved toMissouri in iSKi, eno-aoino- in thefur trade with the Indians. Waselected to the Legislature in 182(5and in 18i2 ))ecaine Lieutenant(xove
. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. JOHN MILLKR. 28 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. to accept the office of Surveyor-General of Missouri, Illinois andArkansas. Ilis death occurred inJetierson county, Missouri, Auo^.25, 1S44, at the aofc of tifty-fouryears. LiLBUKN W. BooGs, sixth (tOV-ernor of Missouri, was n native ofKentucky, his hiith occurrino; atLexinoton, in 1790; was a soldierin the AVar of 1S12 and moved toMissouri in iSKi, eno-aoino- in thefur trade with the Indians. Waselected to the Legislature in 182(5and in 18i2 ))ecaine Lieutenant(xovernor. Prilled the unexpiredterm of Governor Dunklin and aDANIEL DUNKLIN. month later was elected to the of- fice himself; was subsequently a member of the State Senate and diedin 1861 in California. Thomas Reynolds, Governor of Missouri from 1840 to 1844, wasborn in Bracken county, Kentucky, March 12, 1796; studied law, andwhen quite young settled in Illi-nois;. was Clerk of the House ofRepresentatives and subsequentlyelected a Representative and madeSpeaker; was Attorney-General ofthe State, and later Judge c)f theSupreme Court. Moved to Mis-souri in 1828, settling at Fayette,Howard Co., became a meml)er ofthe State Legislature, and electedGovernor in 1840. The principalact of Governor Reynolds admin-istration, for which he will bemost remend)ered, was the repealof all laws which permitted im-prisonment for de])t. The act re-
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