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JEFFERSON, Missouri in the 1870s: 1 through 5 of 5

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  1. Republican Party Splits at Republican Convention
    date September, 1870map JEFFERSON, Missouritags Government, Politics

    Just five years after the end of the Civil War, tension was already brewing within the majority Republican party of Missouri. Because of the newly drafted Missouri Constitution of 1865, the term for the governor was reduced to two years and thus Governor Joseph McClurg was faced with having to win reelection in 1870. A staunch protectionist and prohibitionist, Governor McClurg was strongly in favor...

  2. United States Circuit Court, District of Missouri: William G. Clark vs. Franklin A. Dick
    date December, 1870map JEFFERSON, Missouritags Crime/Violence, Law, War

    In December 1870, the case of Clark vs. Dick came before the Missouri District of the United States Circuit Court. The case stated that in St. Louis, Missouri in January 1862, the defendant had trespassed on the property of the plaintiff while the defendant was a soldier in the Union Army during the Civil War. Though the plaintiff sought damages for the trespassing, the defendant claimed that he was...

  3. Woman Suffrage Summarily Disposed of in Missouri
    date February 17, 1871map JEFFERSON, Missouritags Law, Politics, Women

    During the Missouri Congressional session of 1871, women suffragists from across the state drafted a proposal which was given to the State Senate Committee. It asked the Missouri State Senate Committee to push the United States' Congress to present a Sixteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, to the states. The State Senate Committee's final reported stated, that inasmuch as the ladies...

  4. Woman Suffrage Summarily Disposed of in MissouriWoman Suffrage Summarily Disposed of in Missouri
    date February 17, 1871map JEFFERSON, Missouritags Government, Law, Politics, Women

    During the Missouri Congressional session of 1871, women suffragists from across the state drafted a proposal which was given to the State Senate Committee. It asked the Missouri State Senate Committee to push the United States' Congress to present a Sixteenth Amendment, giving women the right to vote, to the states. The State Senate Committee's final reported stated, that inasmuch as the ladies...

  5. Missouri's Third State Constitution Adopted
    date October 30, 1875map JEFFERSON, Missouritags Government, Law

    For the second time in less than 10 years, Missouri had written a new State Constitution which was up for ratification by the citizens of the state. The New York Times reported that the third Missouri Constitution was well on its way to passing by a wide margin with 8,245 votes for the Constitution and 1,042 against it in the city of St. Louis alone. For close to twenty towns that are outside of...