Joshua Barton, a young attorney from St. Louis, was Missouri's first Secretary of State. He was appointed to the post in September 1820, just a few days after he was sworn in as a member of the first House of Representatives.
He stayed on the job a year, resigning to become the U.S. Attorney for St. Louis in 1821. He was kind of a shooting star on the Missouri political scene. Elected to public office at the age of 28, he'd been in one duel in 1816 when he was 24 (no blood was shed). He served as second to Charles Lucas in the 1817 duel in which Lucas was killed by Thomas Hart Benton. His luck ran out in 1823, when he went back to Bloody Island for a third duel and was killed by Thomas Rector.
Joshua Barton: He held positions of public trust at the local, state and federal level. He had a nose for duels. Dead at age 30.
James Dean? Heath Ledger? Laird Cregar?
He stayed on the job a year, resigning to become the U.S. Attorney for St. Louis in 1821. He was kind of a shooting star on the Missouri political scene. Elected to public office at the age of 28, he'd been in one duel in 1816 when he was 24 (no blood was shed). He served as second to Charles Lucas in the 1817 duel in which Lucas was killed by Thomas Hart Benton. His luck ran out in 1823, when he went back to Bloody Island for a third duel and was killed by Thomas Rector.
Joshua Barton: He held positions of public trust at the local, state and federal level. He had a nose for duels. Dead at age 30.
James Dean? Heath Ledger? Laird Cregar?