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100 unusual facts about Missouri


1973 Winchester 400

When Dave Wall of Kansas City, Missouri, failed to show for qualifying, Schrock hopped in the car and turned in the seventh-fastest time of the 89 cars that would attempt to qualify.

A Sense of Where You Are

McPhee describes all aspects of Bradley's game, from his roots playing basketball in Crystal City, Missouri and his Olympic experience to Bradley's particular passing and shooting techniques, various physical gifts (including an extraordinary range of vision), and intense discipline and commitment.

Abraham Jefferson Seay

He would spend years reading law materials at irregular intervals until in August, 1860, Seay moved to Cherryville, Missouri where he entered a law office.

Albert Frederick Mutti

From there he moved to Savannah becoming the Founding Pastor of the Crossroads Ecumenical Cooperative Parish.

Ameristar Casinos

Ameristar's properties in Kansas City and St. Charles, Missouri, and Black Hawk, Colorado, benefitted from casino-related regulatory reform approved by voters in 2008-09.

Amity, Arkansas

The Bean Lumber Company would later open mills in Glenwood, and in Buckner, Missouri.

Armstrong Teasdale

Armstrong Teasdale LLP, is a law firm based in Clayton, Missouri.

Atlantic and Pacific Railroad

The new branch, defined by state law to lie south of the Osage River, began at Franklin (now Pacific) on the main line and headed west-southwesterly across the state.

Austra Skujytė

On 15 April 2005 in Columbia, Missouri, she broke the women's decathlon world record, with a score of 8366.

Barks, Perry County, Missouri

Barks is an unincorporated community in south-central St. Mary's Township in Perry County, Missouri.

Battle of Moore's Mill

The Missouri State Militia commanders and Union Volunteers began to converge on Joseph C. Porter’s recruiters and associated guerrillas, fighting small action at Vassar Hill on July 19, Florida on July 22, and Santa Fe on July 24.

Betty Lynn

In 2007, Lynn was inducted of the Missouri Walk of Fame, located in Marshfield, Missouri.

Bill Stouffer

Stouffer and his wife, Sue Ellen, currently live on their family farm in Saline County, Napton, Missouri, where Stouffer has been an active farmer since 1967.

Billie G. Kanell

Aged 20 at his death, Kanell was buried at Fairdealing Cemetery in Fairdealing, Missouri.

Blaise Daniel Staples

This article is not about Danny Staples (1935-2003), former Shannon County, Missouri state senator

Bob Gassoff

He was killed in a motorcycle accident on the country property of his friend and team-mate Garry Unger near Gray Summit, Missouri; his number 3 was subsequently retired by the Blues.

Bois Brule Township, Perry County, Missouri

There are 6 unincorporated communities in Bois Brule Township: Allans Landing, Belgique, Bishop’s Landing, Claryville, McBride, Menfro and Sereno.

Bolckow, Missouri

Bolckow is a city in Benton Township, Andrew County, Missouri, United States.

Brian Munzlinger

Munzlinger, a third-generation Missouri farmer, his wife, Michele and their two children reside on their farm near Williamstown, Missouri.

Charles Zagonyi

Zagonyi Park in Springfield, Missouri is named for Zagonyi and his famous charge there.

Charlie Creath

Charles Cyril "Charlie" Creath (December 30, 1890, Ironton, Missouri – October 23, 1951, Chicago) was an American jazz trumpeter, saxophonist, accordionist, and bandleader.

Chris Burnett

He was also one of the principal artist/educators featured at the First Annual Jazz Education Forum and Jazz Festival in 1998, which was held in Jefferson City, Missouri.

Cinque Hommes Township, Perry County, Missouri

Cinque Hommes covers an area of 55.5 square miles (143.7km2) and contains one incorporated village (Biehle), and three unincorporated communities: Highland, Millheim, and Schumer Springs.

Claiborne Fox Jackson

Following the end of the Civil War he was exhumed, and reinterred in the Sappington Cemetery near Arrow Rock, Missouri.

Clyde A. Vaughn

#January 1978 - February 1979, Reconnaissance Officer, Headquarters Company, 1140th Engineer Battalion, Cape Girardeau, Missouri

Cole McNary

Cole McNary is the son of Gene McNary, the former Commissioner of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Executive Director of the Missouri Gaming Commission, and County Executive of St. Louis County.

Courtney McCool

McCool was coached by Al and Armine Fong of Great American Gymnastic Express in Kansas City, Missouri.

Dan W. Brown

Dan Brown was born in Solo, Missouri and is a graduate of Houston (Missouri) High School.

Defiance, Missouri

Because there was already a Parsons, Kansas on the Katy line, settlers considered other names, including Missouriton and Bluff City, before deciding on Defiance because of the hamlet's defiance of rival Matson, Missouri to get a station on the line.

Downtown Columbia Historic District

Downtown Columbia, Missouri, which includes a Downtown Columbia Historic District listed on the NRHP in Missouri

East Central Community College

:For the community college in Union, Missouri, see East Central College

Fenwick Settlement, Missouri

He initially planned to settle on Apple Creek at the mouth of Indian Creek, in close proximity to the villages that the Shawnee were erecting at that time.

Francis Howell North High School

Francis Howell North High School is a secondary school located in St. Charles, Missouri.

Frank Hamilton Short

Soon after Short's birth in Shelby County, Missouri, his father died from drinking poisoned water while engaged in the American Civil War.

Fred Beckett

His professional career began in Kansas City in the 1930s, and soon after he landed a job with Eddie Johnson's Crackerjacks in St. Louis, Missouri.

Frederick C. Salomon

On September 30, 1862, he made an unsuccessful attempt to capture Newtonia, Missouri, during the First Battle of Newtonia.

Friedenberg, Missouri

Unlike the communities of Altenburg, Frohna and Uniontown that were settled by Saxon Lutherans from Germany, Friedenberg was founded in 1838 by Lutheran immigrants from Bavaria, Germany.

Gibbs, Missouri

Gibbs is a village in Wilson Township, Adair County, Missouri, United States.

Harry Richard Landis

Landis was born to Jason and Alice Landis in Miller Township, Marion County, Missouri, between Hannibal and Palmyra, where he grew up on the family farm.

Hocomo, Missouri

It once had a post office, but its mail now comes from Caulfield.

Hooker, Missouri

Built on a new alignment of US 66 (which bypassed the town of Devils Elbow), nothing remains of the town.

Horace S. Eldredge

Weeks after purchasing a farm in Far West, Missouri, he was expelled along with the rest of the Mormons by Missouri Executive Order 44.

Huggins, Missouri

It is located on Route M about two miles north of Route 38 near Bendavis.

Isaac Morley

The citizens were taken by the Missouri militia to Richmond, Ray county, to await trial.

James Mason Owen

James Mason "Jim" Owen (born November 11, 1903-died July 12, 1972) served as Mayor of Branson, Missouri for 12 years.

James McDonald Chaney

He was pastor of the church at Dover, Missouri from April 24, 1858 until October, 1867; he served as Stated Supply of the church at Kansas City, Missouri from 1868-1869; and Stated Supply at Dover, MO, from 1869-1870.

James Timberlake

In January 1882, outlaws Robert Ford, Charles Ford and Dick Liddil surrendered to Timberlake at the Fords' sister, Martha Bolton's residence in Ray County, Missouri, on the condition that they would receive full pardons and $10,000 in reward money, in exchange for the death or imprisonment of the gang's ringleader, Jesse James.

Joseph G. Williams

In 1999 his father George Williams died at the age of 99 in Kansas City, Missouri and on December 31, 2006 his mother Jenny Williams died at the age of 105 in Warsaw, Missouri.

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Well into his 80s Joe still did a few shows every year in his homestate of Missouri mostly at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia.

KCAH

KCAH-LP, a low-power radio station (107.9 FM) licensed to Carthage, Missouri, United States

Ken McClain

Kenneth B. "Ken" McClain (born August 26, 1957, Detroit, Michigan) is an internationally-known attorney residing and working in Independence, Missouri.

Kirkwood, Missouri

Hornbeck had been missing since the age of 11, when he was abducted from near his home in Richwoods, Missouri.

Ladell Betts

He and his mother moved from Kansas City, Missouri, to the suburb of Blue Springs when Betts was a child, but he remained very close to his father who has always been an active influence on Ladell over the years.

LaMark Brown

Brown started all four years at Hazelwood West High School in Hazelwood, Missouri at free safety and running back and was a two-time consensus Class 6 all-state performer by the Missouri Coaches Association, the Missouri Sportswriters and Sportscasters Association and the Kansas City Star.

Larry Don

According to legend, it was built from a World War II landing craft that was quartered in St. Louis and trucked to the Lake of the Ozarks.

Lee Feinswog

Feinswog worked as a sportswriter for the Hannibal, Missouri Courier-Post in 1978 and was sports editor for the Raytown, Missouri, weekly group until 1981.

Lillian Berlin

In 2003, after a concert in Kansas City, Lillian was stabbed after a show because of his opinion on the events of 9/11.

Lindenwood Women's Ice Hockey

The women’s team currently plays out of Lindenwood University’s Ice Hockey Arena, which is located in Wentzville, Missouri.

Live at the Gem

Live at the Gem is The Elders' second live album recorded at a 2005 concert at The Gem Theater in Kansas City, Missouri.

Louis Lorimier

Lorimier is also responsible for the founding of at least two Missouri counties: Cape Girardeau County, and Bollinger County, the next county to the west.

Manchester United Methodist Church

Manchester United Methodist Church (formerly Manchester Methodist Episcopal Church, abbreviated Manchester UMC or simply MUMC) is a United Methodist megachurch in Manchester, Missouri.

Marquis James

Marquis James (August 29, 1891, Springfield, Missouri – November 19, 1955) was an American journalist and author, twice awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his works The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston and The Life of Andrew Jackson.

Maryville University

Maryville University of St. Louis is a private, coeducational university located in the city of Town and Country, Missouri, United States.

May 26–31, 2013 tornado outbreak

The tornado continued causing damage in residential areas before crossing the Missouri River into St. Louis County and Earth City, Bridgeton, and the northern side of Maryland Heights as it moved along Interstate 70 near its intersection with Interstate 270.

Mazda Tribute

The Ford plant in Claycomo, Missouri assembled Tribute for the North American market, alongside Ford Escape.

McKendree Chapel

McKendree Chapel, also known as Old McKendree Chapel, in Jackson, Missouri, is a log cabin style chapel that was built in 1819.

Michael J. Devlin

He had disappeared on October 6, 2002, at age 11 while riding his bike to a friend's house in Richwoods, Missouri.

Micronesian American

Micronesians are also increasing rapidly in other places of the U.S. such as in Kansas City, Missouri, where the majority of the Micronesians are of Pohnpeian origin.

Mid-America Regional Council

The Mid-America Regional Council serves the nine county Kansas City metropolitan area, including Cass, Clay, Jackson, Platte and Ray Counties in Missouri and Johnson, Leavenworth, Miami and Wyandotte counties in Kansas.

Modern Day Zero

They approached Scott Gertken while he was singing and playing rhythm guitar for a Foristell, Missouri-based band called Trailer.

Onie Wheeler

Wheeler was born in Senath, Missouri, and learned to play guitar and harmonica as a child.

Perfect Drift

He went home to live out his life at Stonecrest Farms in Kansas City, Missouri, home of his breeder, but will spend summers at the Kentucky Derby Museum at Churchill Downs.

Phil Mulkey

Philip Roy "Phil" Mulkey (born January 7, 1933 in Monett, Missouri) is an American track and field athlete, primarily known for the multi-event decathlon.

Richard Rosenberg

At the time of his death from carbon monoxide poisoning in Wentzville, Missouri he had written and was filming what was intended to be the fourth film in the series, The 100% All-Beef Doom.

River City Casino

Located in Lemay, Missouri, River City Casino is on the western bank of the Mississippi River.

Robert Joseph Hermann

Auxiliary Bishop Emeritus Hermann represented the Archbishop in overseeing the parishes in five deaneries: Northeast St. Louis County, Northwest St. Louis County, Festus, St. Charles County and Washington.

Rocky Ridge

Rocky Ridge, Missouri, an unincorporated community in Sainte Genevieve County

Sambucus canadensis

Research on elderberries is being conducted at the University of Missouri's South West Center in Mount Vernon and at the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station in Mountain Grove.

Samuel P. Cox

Frank was not tried for the bank murder however he was tried in 1883 in Gallatin for an 1881 murder of a Rock Island Railroad employee at nearby Winston, Missouri.

Sandy DiPasquale

In 2008 DiPasquale moved his newest venture, Newport Television, to Kansas City, Missouri.

Sidney D. Jackman

By late in the 1840s he was living in Boone County, Missouri, where he look up work as a schoolteacher as well as farming.

Silver Lake, Missouri

Silver Lake is an unincorporated settlement in Saint Mary's Township in Perry County, Missouri.

St. Charles County, Missouri

It is mostly a six-lane freeway throughout most of the county but there are sections in St. Charles and St. Peters where the Interstate widens to 11 lanes of traffic.

Swedeborg, Missouri

Route 17 crosses Interstate 44 at exit 153 at Buckhorn, runs east through Waynesville, turns north to Crocker, and then runs north out of the county to Iberia.

Switchmen's Union of North America

On 13 October 1894 several lodges of the former association met in Kansas City, Missouri and formed the Switchmen's Union of North America.

Tarkio

Tarkio, Missouri, a town on the Tarkio River in the northwest corner of Missouri

The Pas

In Canada and elsewhere, the book is used as part of school reading, and so despite its size, The Pas is widely known to several generations of Canadians, much as the town of Hannibal, Missouri is known to many from Mark Twain's writings.

Tom Wade Huntington

Tom Wade Huntington (born September 2, 1977 in Wheatland, Missouri), is an American actor best known for his role on the television show Saved by the Bell: The New Class.

Tony Twist

He also owned a chain of bars named Twister's Iron Bar Saloon, with locations in St. Charles and Ste. Genevieve Missouri.

Truman State University Index

The Truman State University Index is a weekly student newspaper distributed at Truman State University and throughout the Kirksville, Missouri community.

Typhlichthys subterraneus

Typhlichthys eigenmanni (nomen nudum) was described as a fourth species in the genus from Camden County, Missouri.

Walter Heiman

In the 1950s, they moved to Olivette, Missouri, where he and Trude continued raising their two children.

Waynesville, Missouri

South of Interstate 44, Highway 17 hugs the western edge of Fort Leonard Wood, passes near Laquey, and circles south of the post until it runs out of the county and eventually joins Highway 32 in Roby.

Wheaton, Missouri

Wheaton is a city in Wheaton Township, Barry County, Missouri, United States.

Wilbur Sweatman

Wilbur Coleman Sweatman was born February 7, 1882 in Brunswick, Missouri to parents Matilda and Coleman Sweatman.

William Thomas Carpenter

William Thomas 'Will Tom' Carpenter, born November 16, 1854 in Johnson County, Missouri, the youngest son of James and Cynthia (Johnson) Carpenter, was a legendary cowman who authored a book about his experiences.

William Wilson Hudson

He was born in Orange County, Virginia in 1808 and was a professor of mathematics and natural philosophy at the University of Alabama before moving to Columbia, Missouri in 1838.

WRBU

WRBU maintains studio facilities located on North Kingshighway Boulevard on the northwest side of St. Louis, and its transmitter is located near House Springs.

Wrestlepalooza

Wrestlepalooza 2000 took place on April 16, 2000 at the Family Arena in St. Charles, Missouri.

Zach Bauer

Bauer grew up in St. Charles, Missouri and attended Christian Brothers College High School where he was a second team All State soccer player as a senior.


Ahmednagar College

Ahmednagar College was founded in 1947 by the late Dr. B.P.Hivale with the support and co-operation of the American Marathi Mission, Bombay, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Boston, Minnepolis, Minnesota, the late Mr. William H. Danforth of St. Louis, Missouri and a number of other individual friends and groups.

Amazonia, Missouri

Amazonia is a village in Lincoln Township, Andrew County, Missouri, United States.

Anthony Peeler

He had expressed interest in joining the coaching staff of Frank Haith at Missouri in 2011, but no job offer was forthcoming.

Bill Clay

Poplar Street Bridge St. Louis, Missouri renamed on October 7, 2013 Congressman William L. Clay Sr.

Brutus Hamilton

Hamilton was born on July 19, 1900 in Peculiar, Missouri, and in Missouri he grew up as a farm boy whose parents' property was next door to the Harry S. Truman family farm.

Chase Daniel

Ironically, it was only after he had committed to Mizzou that Longhorn coach Mack Brown began to seriously look at Daniel but Daniel stuck to his oral commitment with Missouri.

Chee-Chee

Frank DeMayo (1885-1949?), Missouri mobster nicknamed "Chee-Chee"

Conference of Chief Justices

The first meeting, organized by the Council of State Governments and funded by private foundations, and held in St. Louis, Missouri, was held at the behest of New Jersey Chief Justice Arthur T. Vanderbilt, Nebraska Chief Justice Robert G. Simmons and Missouri Chief Justice Laurance M. Hyde, who was elected as the first chairman by the representatives of the 44 states in attendance.

Council of Conservative Citizens

The CofCC continues protesting speaking engagements by Morris Dees in Alabama, Mississippi, Missouri, Indiana, and South Carolina, declaring him to be a threat to free speech and a fraud.

David Hickman

David Henry Hickman (1821–1869), legislator and businessman from Columbia, Missouri

Douglas Eads Foster

He went to public schools in Warrensburg, then to Missouri State Teachers College and Washington School of Dentistry in St. Louis, Missouri.

Edinburg, Missouri

A home of Thompson, for whom the Thompson Branch of the Grand River (Missouri) is named, is in nearby Crowder State Park.

Franklin Archibald Dick

He was assistant adjutant general to Nathaniel Lyon at Camp Jackson (the first Missouri Civil War incident); Missouri provost marshal general under Major General Samuel Curtis; law partner with Montgomery Blair at the Blair House in Washington D C after the Civil War.

Frederick Lucian Hosmer

Frederick Lucian Hosmer (1840-1929) was an American Unitarian minister who served congregations in Massachusetts, Illinois, Ohio, Missouri, and California and who wrote many significant hymns.

Harrison E. Havens

He was born in Franklin County, Ohio and was the Republican Party Representative from Missouri for the 4th District in the 42nd United States Congress between 1871 and 1873, and for the 6th District in the 43rd United States Congress from 1873 to 1875.

Harry Ice

Ice was an all-Big Six selection in 1941 as Missouri won the conference championship and went on to the Sugar Bowl, where he was the game's MVP.

Heritage College

Heritage College & Heritage Institute in Denver, Colorado, Kansas City, Missouri, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Fort Myers, Florida, Jacksonville, Florida, Falls Church, Virginia, Manassas, Virginia, and Wichita, Kansas

Huc-Mazelet Luquiens

The Bishop Museum (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Butler Institute of American Art (Youngstown, Ohio), the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, the Hawaii State Art Museum, the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, Missouri), the Hilo Art Museum (Hilo, Hawaii), the Isaacs Art Center (Waimea, Hawaii), and the Yale University Art Gallery are among the public collections holding prints by Huc-Mazelet Luquiens.

Hugh Mott

In tribute to Major General Mott, the U.S. Army Engineer School, located at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri, named the Bachelor Officer's Quarters building "Mott Hall" in his honor.

John O. Colvin

During college and law school he was employed by a private firm, Niedner, Niedner, Nack and Bodeux, of St. Charles, Missouri, and also worked for a number of political figures, including Missouri Attorney General John C. Danforth and Missouri State Representative Richard C. Marshall, both in Jefferson City; and for U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield and Congressman Thomas B. Curtis, in Washington, DC.

Josh Outman

Outman pitched for Forest Park Community College in Saint Louis, before transferring to the University of Central Missouri (formerly Central Missouri State University).

KCRV

KCRV-FM, a radio station (105.1 FM) licensed to Caruthersville, Missouri, United States

KDKD

KDKD-FM, a radio station (95.3 FM) licensed to Clinton, Missouri, United States

KPTN

KPTN-LD, a low-power television station (channel 36) licensed to serve St. Louis, Missouri, United States

KUVM

KUVM-LD, a television station (channel 10) licensed to Missouri City, Texas, United States

Malden, Missouri

Malden is a city in the northeast corner of Dunklin County, Missouri, United States, located near the intersection of Missouri Route 25 and U.S. Route 62.

Mary Odilia Berger

The congregation, through SSM Health Care, today operates in Illinois, Missouri, Oklahoma and Wisconsin.

Millsboro, Delaware

Thus, it is one of only three cities in the United States to record both its state's extreme temperatures, the others being Chester, Massachusetts and Warsaw, Missouri.

Missouri Route 5

Shortly after entering Wright County, Route 5 forms a one-mile east-west concurrency with U.S. 60 (as a limited-access highway) in Mansfield.

Missouri's at-large congressional district

From the state's creation August 10, 1821 until the end of the 29th United States Congress (in 1847), and also for the 73rd Congress (1933-1935), Missouri elected its members of the United States House of Representatives at-large state-wide on a general ticket.

New Madrid County, Missouri

Like most rural areas throughout Missouri, voters in New Madrid County generally adhere to socially and culturally conservative principles but are more moderate or populist on economic issues, typical of the Dixiecrat philosophy.

North Dakota Highway 1804

Highway 1804 begins at the border between North Dakota and South Dakota near Pollock, South Dakota, and continues uninterrupted along the north east side of the Missouri River through Emmons, Burleigh, McLean, Mountrail, and Williams counties.

Office of the Supervising Architect

In 1893 Missouri Congressman John Charles Tarsney introduced a bill that allowed the Supervisory Architect to have competitions among private architects for major structures.

Ralph Cheli

What are believed to be Major Cheli's and other similarly executed POWs remains are now interred at Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis, Missouri.

Richard Berkley

Richard L. Berkley (born 1931), mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, 1979–1991

Robert Christopher

Robert Collins Christopher was an American journalist who served in World War II and was in the force that occupied Japan after Douglas MacArthur accepted the Japanese surrender aboard the USS Missouri.

Russell Alexander

Russell Alexander (February 26, 1877 in Nevada City, Missouri – October 2, 1915 in New York City) was an entertainer and composer, active primarily with vaudeville shows and musical comedy organizations.

Salem Lutheran Church, Farrar, Missouri

The original congregation had some ties to the Paitzdorf congregation in Paitzdorf (present-day Uniontown), Missouri.

Samuel Orace Dunn

He learned the printing trade after graduating from high school, was editor of the Quitman, (Mo.) Record (1895–96) and associate editor of the Maryville, (Mo.) Tribune (1896–1900); from 1900 to 1904 was a reporter, and later editorial writer, on the Kansas City Journal, and in 1904-07 was connected with the Chicago Tribune as railroad editor and editorial writer.

Sioux City and Pacific Railroad

In August 1867 the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River opened a branch from Missouri Valley Junction west to California Junction (sold to the Sioux City and Pacific in July 1871), where the Sioux City and Pacific, funded by the Cedar Rapids and Missouri River, began constructing its line north through the Missouri River Valley, reaching Sioux City in February 1868.

The Wolf

WDAF-FM The Wolf, an American radio station in Kansas City, Missouri

Thomas B. Marsh

The town had been founded by the presidency of the Missouri Stake, consisting of David Whitmer, William Wines Phelps and John Whitmer.

Thomas Bonacum

He studied at St. Vincent's College, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, and at the University of Würzburg, Bavaria, after which he was ordained priest at St. Louis, 18 June 1870.

Thomas Halsey

Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863–1961), United States Representative from Missouri

Truman Reservoir

The Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, however, did relocate its main line between La Due and Clinton; the project included five miles of new track and a causeway/bridge combination over the lake.

United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri

The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit across Missouri in St. Louis has jurisdiction over decisions appealed from the Western District of Missouri (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

Violence Against Women Act

However, several of them, including Steve King (R-Iowa), Bill Johnson (R-Ohio), Tim Walberg (R-Michigan), Vicky Hartzler (R-Missouri), Keith Rothfus (R-Pennsylvania), and Tim Murphy (R-Pennsylvania), later claimed to have voted in favor of the act.

William Wesley Cox

He ran in many elections, and his last attempt at office was in 1944, running for the United States Senate seat in Missouri, at the age of 79.