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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWillard Duncan VANDIVER
(1854-1932)
VANDIVER, Willard Duncan,
a Representative from Missouri; born near Moorefield, Hardy County,
Va. (now West Virginia), March 30, 1854; moved to Missouri with his
parents, who settled on a farm in Boone County in 1857, and to
Fayette in 1872; attended the common schools, and was graduated
from Central College, Fayette, Mo., in 1877; studied law; professor
of natural science in Bellevue Institute, Caledonia, Mo.,
1877-1880, and served as its president 1880-1889; accepted the
chair of science in the State normal school at Cape Girardeau, Mo.,
in 1889, and became its president in 1893 and served until 1897;
delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1896, 1898, 1918,
and 1920 and served as chairman in 1918; elected as a Democrat to
the Fifty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4,
1897-March 3, 1905); was not a candidate for renomination in 1904;
chairman of the State executive committee in 1904; State insurance
commissioner of Missouri 1905-1909; vice president of the Central
States Life Insurance Co. 1910-1912; Assistant Treasurer of the
United States 1913-1921; settled on a farm near Columbia, Mo., and
engaged in agricultural pursuits and lecturing; is credited with
the authorship of the famous expression “I’m from
Missouri, you’ve got to show me”; died in Columbia,
Mo., May 30, 1932; interment in the Columbia Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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