People of Missouri
Josephine Baker |
St. Louis |
1906-1975 |
Entertainer |
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Thomas Hart Benton |
Neosho |
1889-1975 |
Painter |
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Omar Nelson Bradley |
Clark |
1893-1981 |
Soldier |
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Dale Carnegie |
Maryville |
1888-1935 |
Author, teacher of public speaking |
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George Washington Carver |
Near Diamond Grove |
1864?-1943 |
Agronomist, chemist |
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Winston Churchill |
St. Louis |
1871-1947 |
Novelist |
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Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain) |
Florida |
1835-1910 |
Humorist, author |
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Walter Leland Cronkite, Jr. |
St. Joseph |
1916- |
Journalist, commentator |
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Ginger Rogers (Virginia McMath) |
Independence |
1911-1995 |
Actress, dancer |
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Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot |
St. Louis |
1888-1965 |
Poet, critic |
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Eugene Field |
St. Louis |
1850-1895 |
Author, poet |
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James Langston Hughes |
Joplin |
1902-1967 |
Author |
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James Cash Penney |
Hamilton |
1875-1971 |
Merchant |
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John Joseph Pershing |
Laclede |
1860-1948 |
Soldier |
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Harry S. Truman |
Lamar |
1884-1972 |
U.S. President |
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Source:
The World Almanac of the U.S.A.
by Allan Carpenter and Carl Provorse, Copyright 1996.
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