		Missouri Attorneys General: John Ashcroft, John Danforth, Thomas Eagleton, Jay Nixon, J. Proctor Knott, Chris Koster, Edward Bate Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-02. ISBN 9781155223476
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: John Ashcroft, John Danforth, Thomas Eagleton, Jay Nixon, J. Proctor Knott, Chris Koster, Edward Bates, Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow, William L. Webster, List of Attorneys General of Missouri, Herbert S. Hadley, Rufus Easton, Thomas Theodore Crittenden, Edward Coke Crow, Robert William Wells, Elliot Woolfolk Major. Excerpt: Benjamin Stringfellow Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow (September 3, 1816-April 26, 1891) was a Missouri Attorney General , a high ranking border ruffian and one of the organizers of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad . Early life He was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia . He attended the University of Virginia and was admitted to practice law in Louisville, Kentucky in 1837. In 1839 he moved to Boone's Lick, Missouri and practiced law in Keytesville, Missouri . He was elected to the Missouri House of Representatives serving from Chariton County, Missouri . He was Missouri Attorney General from 1845 to 1849. Border ruffian In 1853 he and his brother John moved to Weston, Missouri in Platte County, Missouri just across the Missouri River from Fort Leavenworth, Kansas . In 1854 after four slaves from Platte County ran away to Leavenworth he was among the organizers of the Platte County Self-Defensive Association to attempt to prevent Free-Stater settlement of Kansas. Benjamin and his brother then stumped western Missouri organizing "blue lodges" along the entire Kansas border. In 1854 along with David Rice Atchison he attempted to get residents of Southern states to move to Kansas with their slaves to counter settlements by the anti-slavery Massachusetts Emigrant Aid Company . Failing to convince southerners to move to Kansas, he issued the "Stringfellow's Exposition" which said it was legal for Missourians to vote in Kansas on deciding whether the stat

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