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Famous Missourians

Thomas Hart Benton George Washington Carver T.S. Eliot
George Caleb Bingham Daniel Boone Sara Teasdale
Mark Twain Kit Carson Marianne Moore
Harry S. Truman Langston Hughes Scott Joplin
Laura Ingalls Wilder Walt Disney Virgil Thomson
Eugene Field Mary Easton Sibley Walter Cronkite
Ginger Rogers Robert Guillaume Joe Garagiola
William "Count" Basie William Clark Sterling Price
Charles Lindbergh Molly Brown Jesse James
Ozzie Smith Auguste Chouteau Susan Elizabeth Blow

Thomas Hart Benton
http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/artists/benton/benton.shtml
http://monet.unk.edu/mona/contemp/benton/benton.html
http://www.history.navy.mil/ac/benton/benton1.htm

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George Caleb Bingham
http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Exhibit/5437/GCBind.html
http://www.mo-river.net/arts/Bingham%20%20Biography.htm
http://www.dropbears.com/a/art/biography/George_Caleb_Bingham.html

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Mark Twain
http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/writers/clemens/clemens.shtml
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/twain
http://www.hannibal.net/twain/biography/

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Harry S. Truman
http://www.trumanlibrary.org/lifetimes/index.html
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/ht33.html

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/whistlestop/student_guide.htm

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Laura Ingalls Wilder
http://www.gale.com/free_resources/whm/bio/ingallswilder_l.htm
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/feb07.html

http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/dreamteam/laurawilder.html

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George Washington Carver
http://www.nps.gov/gwca/expanded/gwc_tour_01.htm
http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/scientists/carver/carver.shtml
http://www.graceproducts.com/carver/carver.html

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Daniel Boone
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/jun07.html

http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=3
http://www.danielboonefamily.org/

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Kit Carson
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/carson.htm
http://www.enchantedlearning.com/explorers/page/c/carson.shtml

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Langston Hughes
http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/hughes
http://www.galegroup.com/free_resources/bhm/bio/hughes_l.htm

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Walt Disney
http://www.justdisney.com/WaltDisney100/biography01.html
http://www.justdisney.com/walt_disney/biography/w_bio_short.html

http://disney.go.com/disneyatoz/familymuseum/collection/biography/marceline/

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T.S. Eliot
http://nobelprize.org/literature/laureates/1948/eliot-bio.html
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/a_f/eliot/life.htm

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/18

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Sara Teasdale
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/sara-teasdale.html
http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/658
http://www.slpl.org/slpl/interests/article240121844.asp

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Marianne Moore
http://www.english.uiuc.edu/maps/poets/m_r/moore/life.htm
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/marianne-moore.html

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/96

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Scott Joplin
http://www.essentialsofmusic.com/composer/joplin.html
http://www.scottjoplin.org/biography.htm
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/scott-joplin.html

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Virgil Thomson
http://www.schirmer.com/composers/thomson_bio.html
http://www.virgilthomson.org/bio.html

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Eugene Field
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/biography/2076/Eugene_Field/
http://www.eugenefieldhouse.org/history.html
http://www.eugenefieldhouse.org/altfieldfamily.html
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/eugene-field.html


Walter Cronkite
http://www.famoustexans.com/waltercronkite.htm
http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/C/htmlC/cronkitewal/cronkitewal.htm

http://cronkite.asu.edu/walter/waltercronkite.php


Ginger Rogers
http://www.wic.org/bio/grogers.htm
http://www.gingerrogers.com/about/bio.html


Joe Garagiola
http://www.niashf.org/index.cfm?ContentID=58&InducteeID=95
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/joe-garagiola.html


William "Count" Basie
http://www.pbs.org/jazz/biography/artist_id_basie_count.htm

http://www.iaje.org/bio.asp?ArtistID=56


William Clark
http://www.nps.gov/jeff/LewisClark2/CorpsOfDiscovery/TheLeaders/Clark/Clark.htm
http://www.edgate.com/lewisandclark/BIOs/BIO_W_Clark.html
http://www.lewisclark.net/biography/


Sterling Price
http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=P000531
http://www.ehistory.com/uscw/features/people/bio.cfm?PID=59


Charles Lindbergh
http://www.charleslindbergh.com/history/index.asp
http://www.lindberghfoundation.org/history/calbio.html

http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/charles-lindbergh.html


Molly Brown
http://www.mollybrownsummerhousehistory.org/margaret_brown.htm
http://www.lkwdpl.org/wihohio/brow-mol.htm


Auguste Chouteau
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/auguste-chouteau.html
http://www.nps.gov/archive/jeff/LewisClark2/Circa1804/StLouis/BlockInfo/Block34AAChouteauSr.htm


Susan Elizabeth Blow
http://shs.umsystem.edu/famousmissourians/educators/blow/blow.shtml
http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/susan-blow.html
http://www.froebelweb.org/images/blow.html


Mary Easton Sibley
http://stlcin.missouri.org/history/peopledetail.cfm?Master_ID=1162

http://www.epsi.net/graphic/fthist.html

 

 

 


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