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Politics: Gallatin’s Phil Tate Elected to 6 Terms in State Legislature

Politics: Gallatin’s Phil Tate Elected to 6 Terms in State Legislature

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Phillip Alan “Phil” Tate, 73, lifelong resident of Gallatin, passed away peacefully Sunday morning, Dec. 22, 2019, in his home. Phil was born on March 21, 1946 to Hubert L. and Patricia M. (Drummond) Tate in St. Joseph. He graduated from Gallatin High School in 1964,...
First Woman Mayor for the City of Gallatin, MO

First Woman Mayor for the City of Gallatin, MO

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Norma Griffin is tearing herself away from a 64-year career of public service. The 83-year-old will retire on May 25, 2018, from her position as deputy assessor in the Daviess County Assessor’s Office. While Norma was working for the county, she became mayor of...
Politics: Many Sides to Conrad Burns, Montana’s 19th U.S. Senator

Politics: Many Sides to Conrad Burns, Montana’s 19th U.S. Senator

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Auctioneer, broadcaster, county commissioner, football referee, livestock fieldman and Marine, Conrad Burns became Montana’s 19th United States Senator on Jan. 3, 1989. In 1988, Burns defeated incumbent Senator John Melcher by a 52 to 48 percent margin, becoming...
Politics: Sen. Conrad Burns Clings to His Daviess County Roots

Politics: Sen. Conrad Burns Clings to His Daviess County Roots

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Conrad Burns’ roots go back to a plain white house on a small farm on the green rolling plains of Northwest Missouri. It was here where Burns says he learned the work ethic and life’s other lessons from hard-working parents who had survived the Great...
Politics: Sen. Burns’ First Day Promise as He Takes Seat in the Capitol

Politics: Sen. Burns’ First Day Promise as He Takes Seat in the Capitol

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On his first day in the U.S. Senate (101st Congress), Conrad Burns (R-Montana) kept one promise: “I’ll never take a chew under the Capitol dome.” Burns, a longtime tobacco chewer, didn’t need the brass spittoons on the Senate floor as he joined...
Politics: Republican Sen. Burns No Easy Mark for Montana Democrats

Politics: Republican Sen. Burns No Easy Mark for Montana Democrats

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Gallatin native Conrad Burns is a Republican Senator from the strongly Democratic state of Montana and was seen as vulnerable in the election of 1994. But this campaign, following his freshman year in Washington, D.C., reveals much about the Missouri man serving...
Politics: Sen. Conrad Burns (1935-2016) of Daviess County, MO

Politics: Sen. Conrad Burns (1935-2016) of Daviess County, MO

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On April 28, 2016, Conrad Burns died peacefully in his home in Billings, Mont. He was well known to Montanans for his service in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2007. His history, from his birth in 1935 in Gallatin, Mo., to his military service, to his various jobs prior...
Freemason’s Memorial to Alexander M. Dockery

Freemason’s Memorial to Alexander M. Dockery

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W.A. Clark presented and read this memorial on the late A.M. Dockery which was unanimously adopted and a page set aside on the records, with copies delivered to the Gallatin North Missourian, the Gallatin Democrat, and to newspapers at Kansas City and St. Louis. The...
A Chillicothe perspective on Missouri Gov. Alexander M. Dockery

A Chillicothe perspective on Missouri Gov. Alexander M. Dockery

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Alexander M. Dockery is buried beneath a red marble obelisk that towers 15 feet or so into the air at Edgewood Cemetery in Chillicothe. But Gallatin claims Dockery as a native son because he was born in a log cabin on Honey Creek, five miles south of Gallatin on Feb....
Missouri Governor:  Alexander M. Dockery of Gallatin, MO

Missouri Governor: Alexander M. Dockery of Gallatin, MO

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There has hardly been a man, woman or child in Northwest Missouri who has not been familiar by constant repetition with the name of Alexander M. Dockery, whose career of public service has kept him almost constantly active in district, state and national affairs...
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Visit the 1889 Squirrel Cage Jail, located 2 blocks west of the Daviess County Courthouse in Gallatin, MO. This historic relic is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and serves as a visitors’ center — by appointment,
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Recent Posts

  • Everly Cemetery: Oldest Gravestone of Grand River Twp. (1835) March 7, 2023
  • Yesteryear Photographs of Jameson, MO March 7, 2023
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