Willard Duncan Vandiver
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Willard Duncan Vandiver | |
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Norman Adolphus Mozley | |
Succeeded by | William T. Tyndall |
Personal details | |
Born | Moorefield, Virginia (now West Virginia), U.S. | March 30, 1854
Died | May 30, 1932 Missouri | (aged 78)
Political party | Democratic |
Known for | Allegedly coining Missouri's nickname as the "Show Me State" |
Willard Duncan Vandiver (March 30, 1854 – May 30, 1932) was a
Early life
Born near Moorefield, Virginia, now a part of West Virginia, he moved to Missouri with his parents, who settled on a farm in Boone County in 1857, and to Fayette in 1872.
Academia
He graduated from Central College in 1877; studied law, and became a professor of natural science at the Bellevue Institute from 1877 to 1880 and served as its president in 1880–1889; accepted the chair of science in the Missouri State Normal School at Cape Girardeau, Missouri in 1889, and became its president in 1893 and served until 1897.
Politics
He was a delegate to the Democratic State conventions in 1896, 1898, 1918, and 1920 and served as chairman in 1918. Vandiver was elected as a
He retired and settled on a farm near Columbia, Missouri. He died on May 30, 1932, and is buried in the Columbia Cemetery.
References
- United States Congress. "Willard Duncan Vandiver (id: V000032)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
- ISBN 0-8368-5309-1(p. 16).
- ^ Missouri Secretary of State's Office, Why Is Missouri Called the "Show-Me" State?, http://www.sos.mo.gov/archives/history/slogan.asp retrieved November 2013