Clay County
information:
Population: 184,006 (2000); 153,411 (1990)
Land area 396 square miles.
County seat: Liberty
Politicians
who were born in Clay County
Near Kearney:
Mason Summers Peters 1844
Politicians
who lived in Clay County
No city given:
David C. Christian - William Collins - Sandra Lee
Reeves - Randy Robb
Excelsior Springs:
Ella Jean Flanders - Byron C. Hedges
Kearney:
Mrs. Kenneth Dagley
Liberty:
Alexander William Doniphan - Jewett M. Fulkerson -
Mrs. Victor N. Remley - James C. Simrall - Alan F.
Wheritt
North Kansas City:
D. C. Campbell
Politicians
who died in Clay County
No city given:
John Thorton 1847
Excelsior Springs:
Horace B. Johnson 1904
Cemeteries and
Memorial Sites of Politicians in Clay County
Liberty
Fairview Cemetery
Fairview Cemetery
Liberty, Clay County, Missouri
Politicians buried here:
Jacob LeRoy
Milligan (1889-1951)
-- also
known as Jacob L. Milligan -- of Richmond, Ray
County, Mo. Born in Missouri, 1889. Democrat. U.S.
Representative from Missouri, 1920-21, 1923-35 (3rd
District 1920-21, 1923-33, at-large 1933-35);
defeated, 1920; delegate to Democratic National
Convention from Missouri, 1928. Died in 1951.
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
John
Dougherty (1857-1905)
Born in
Missouri, 1857. Democrat. U.S. Representative from
Missouri 3rd District, 1899-1905. Died in 1905.
Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
John Thorton
(1786-1847)
Grandson-in-law
of John Johns Trigg; father-in-law of Alexander
William Doniphan. Born December 24, 1786. Member of
Missouri state house of representatives, 1824-32,
1836; Speaker of the Missouri State House of
Representatives, 1828-30. Died in Clay County, Mo.,
October 24, 1847. Interment at Fairview Cemetery.
Alexander
William Doniphan (1808-1887)
of Liberty,
Clay County, Mo.; Richmond, Ray County, Mo.
Son-in-law of John Thorton. Born in Mason County,
Ky., July 9, 1808. Democrat. Member of Missouri state
legislature, 1836, 1840, 1854; colonel in the U.S.
Army during the Mexican War; delegate to Democratic
National Convention from Missouri, 1876. Led
Doniphan's Expedition into Mexico, 1846-47. Died in
1887. Interment at Fairview Cemetery. Doniphan
County, Kan. is named for him.