. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. rORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 83 Claiborne F. Jackson, Governor of Missouri in 1860, was bornin Fleming; county, Kentucky, April 4, 1807, and emig-ratecl to Mis-souri in 1822, was a captain in the Black Hawk War, and for twelveyears a member of the State Legislature; was a prime mover in theorganizations of the banking institutions of the State and at one timewas Bank Commissioner ; elected Governor in 1860. AVas for a shorttime a General in the Confederate Army. The Columbia Herald ina special edition issued in
. Historical, pictorial and biographical record, of Chariton County, Missouri. rORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. 83 Claiborne F. Jackson, Governor of Missouri in 1860, was bornin Fleming; county, Kentucky, April 4, 1807, and emig-ratecl to Mis-souri in 1822, was a captain in the Black Hawk War, and for twelveyears a member of the State Legislature; was a prime mover in theorganizations of the banking institutions of the State and at one timewas Bank Commissioner ; elected Governor in 1860. AVas for a shorttime a General in the Confederate Army. The Columbia Herald ina special edition issued in 18!*5, speaks of Governor Jackson as fol-. 7 ^? CLAIBORNE F. JACKSON. lows: Governor Claiborne F. Jackson was one of the most conspic-uous figures that Missouri ever knew. It was declared in 1861, andlater, that he was a weak man, but at the same time no man in thehistory of the West had so much to do with its affairs or its was the Governor of Missouri at the outbreak of the war, and hisefforts to lead the State into the Confederacy were met ))y the mostdetermined opposition. He was the uncle of the younger Marmaduke,and had a great love for Missouri which nothing could undo. He had 34 PORTRAIT AND BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD. been reared in the South, and his many social and political ties boundhim to her [)eople. His death occurred at Little Rock, Arkansas,December 6, 18G2, loved and admired by all Missourians. llAMILTO^ K. (lAMBiJ-: was born hi Virginia in ITiJl and educatedat the Hani])den Sidney College ; emigrated to Missouri in 1818, set-tling in Howard count}, receiving the appointment of Prosecuting Mf0-^m^^..
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