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The following is a list of people who were born in, have lived in, or are otherwise associated with American city of Sedalia, Missouri; they are known as Sedalians.

In addition to what follows, a list of more than fifty Sedalia "Old Timers", who had met at the Sedalia Courthouse on the previous evening, was published in the December 12, 1893, issue of the Sedalia Bazoo; the list indicated when they had arrived in Sedalia, and from whence they had come.

Arts

Acting

  • Dorothy Dwan (1906–1981) – film actress
  • Lucille McVey (1890–1925) – film screenwriter and silent film actress; married to Sidney Drew in 1914; often credited under married name of Mrs. Sidney Drew; through marriage, aunt to John, Lionel and Ethel Barrymore
  • Jack Oakie, born Lewis Delaney Offield (1903–1978) – film, stage, radio, and television actor

Art

  • Russell M. Glenn (born 1951) – artist and designer
  • LeRoy Daniel MacMorris (1893–1981) – portrait painter, muralist, illustrator, decorator and designer

Comedy

  • Will Franken (born 1973) - comedian

Literature

  • Joel Townsley Rogers (1896–1984) – short-story writer; mystery novelist
  • June Rae Wood (born 1946) – children's and young adult's author

Music

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Scott Joplin
  • Andrew Berenyi (born 1963) – musician and glam-rock composer
  • Bill Booth – musician, former member of The Airmen of Note, principal trombone in the Los Angeles Opera Company, the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, and the Pasadena Symphony; adjunct associate professor (trombone), University of California, Los Angeles
  • Scott Hayden (1882–1915) – composer of ragtime music
  • George Thomas Ireland (1866–1963) – ragtime clarinet player; journalist in Sedalia for almost 50 years
  • Scott Joplin (1867/1868–1917) – musician and composer of ragtime music
  • Arthur Marshall (1881–1968) – composer and performer of ragtime music
  • Etilmon Justus Stark (1868–1962) – ragtime composer and arranger
  • John Stillwell Stark (1841–1927) – piano dealer; publisher of ragtime music; promoter of Scott Joplin
  • Leroy Frank Van Dyke (born 1929) – country music performer; wrote "The Auctioneer" and recorded "Walk on By"; recorded over 500 songs

Photography

  • Wilson L. Hicks (1897–1970) – photographer; picture editor, Kansas City Star; photographic editor Life magazine (1937–1950); professor of photojournalism at the University of Miami (1955–1970)

Business

  • T. B. Anderson – founder of the Sedalia Telephone Company in 1880
  • William E. Franklin – president of Weyerhaeuser Far East, American Chamber of Commerce in Japan, International Timber Company of Indonesia, and Kenneday Bay Timber Company (Malaysia)
  • Allen Percival Green (1875–1956) – engineer; founder, A. P. Green Fire Brick Company; philanthropist (donated A. P. Green Chapel to the University of Missouri)
  • John W. Hicks, Jr. (1888–1945) – president, Paramount International Films; vice-president, Paramount Pictures
  • Cyrus N. Johns – president, American Chain and Cable Company
  • E. Virgil Neal (1868–1949) – manufacturer
  • Samuel Lee Stedman (1916–1961) – MBA Harvard Business School (1937); New York merchant banker, Wall Street financial analyst

Education

  • Winona Cargile Alexander (1893–1894) – founder, Delta Sigma Theta sorority; high-school teacher; social worker
  • James V. Mehl Ph. D. (1941–1998) – historian; professor of humanities, Missouri Western State College

Sedalia School Superintendents

  • 1867–1872: George O. Brown
  • 1872–1876 – G. W. Ready
  • 1876–1884 – D. R. Cully
  • 1884–1888 – William Richardson
  • 1888–1893 – A. J. Smith
  • 1893–1908 – G. V. Buchanan
  • 1908–1920 – John P. Gass
  • 1920–1924 – C. A. Greene
  • 1924–1927 – John N. Crocker
  • 1927–1958 – Heber U. Hunt (1897- )
  • 1958–1973 – T. J. Norris
  • 1973–1974 – A Henningson

Engineering

  • Daniel C. Jackling (1869–1956) – mining and metallurgical engineer; founder, Utah Copper Company; known as "the father of open-pit mining"
  • Walter Rautenstrauch (1880–1951) – mechanical engineer; first chairman of Columbia University's Department of Industrial Engineering; adviser to the Mexican Government; co-founder of Committee on Technocracy (1932)

Historical figures

Journalism

  • Raymond Peter Brandt (1896–1974) – Rhodes Scholar; O.I.C. Office of Finances, American Relief Administration, Vienna, Austria, 1920; District Supervisor, American Relief Administration, Vitebsk, Russia, (1922–1923); reporter, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1917–1919), and Washington, D.C. correspondent for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (1923–1967)
  • Elizabeth Williams Cosgrove (1878–1975), journalist; writer; poet
  • Elizabeth Jane Dugan (?1848–1911) – also known as "Rosa Pearle"; poet; journalist (started with the Sedalia Bazoo; founder and editor of the Saturday-evening society weekly Rosa Pearle's Paper (1894–1911)
  • Mary Frances "Murry" Engle (1930–2005) – journalist, Sedalia Democrat (1950–1966), Boeing News and Boeing Magazine (1967–1970); Honolulu Star-Bulletin (1970–1993)
  • Charles Grandison Finney (1905–1984) – journalist; writer; part-time night club owner; author, The Circus of Dr. Lao, which adapted as the film 7 Faces of Dr. Lao (1964)
  • J. West Goodwin – editor of Sedalia Bazoo; president of Missouri Press Association (1891); organizer of the Sedalia Citizen’s Alliance (1902)
  • Hazel Norinne Lang (1903–1996) – journalist, reporter and feature writer with the Sedalia Democrat (1925–1970); poet; historian (author of Only Human; Poems of Everyday Life, Exposition Press, (New York), 1955, and the 1,112-page Life in Pettis County, 1815–1873, published in Sedalia, in 1975)
  • Casper Salathiel Yost (1863–1941) – editor of St. Louis Globe-Democrat; founder of American Society of Newspaper Editors (1922)

Medicine

  • Walter Edward Dandy (1886–1946) – scientist and neurosurgeon
  • Willis P. King – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1881)
  • Thomas J. Montgomery – vice-president, Missouri State Medical Association (1874)
  • John W. Trader – president, Missouri State Medical Association (1876)

Military

United States Army

  • Richard D. Dean (born 1929) – United States Army Brigadier General and Deputy Director of the Army National Guard
  • Rufus Estes Longan (1879–1936) – Brigadier General, United States Army
  • John C. McLaughlin (1903–1967) – Major General, United States Army, 35th Infantry Division
  • John Henry Parker – Brigadier General, United States Army; West Point Graduate; war hero; first to recognize the tactical advantages of machine guns to continuously support advancing infantry and protect artillery trains (carriages pulled by draft animals); awarded the Distinguished Service Cross four times, for valor displayed on four separate occasions, during 1918
  • Edgar Frank Thelen (born 1906) – University of Missouri graduate; associate of Harry S. Truman in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (1930–1940); US Army officer (1942–1961); staff member, University of Missouri
  • William S. Triplet (1900–1994) – Colonel United States Army; professional soldier; West Point graduate (1924); served in both World War I and World War II

United States Navy

  • Floyd Ewing Hall (1920–1945) – naval aviator shot down over the island of Chichi Jima in the Pacific theater of World War II on February 18, 1945; after a month spent captured on the island, was executed by Japanese commanders; his capture and execution is one of the subjects of James Bradley's 2003 novel Flyboys: A True Story of Courage
  • John James Housel (1911–1941) – SK1c USN; killed in action on December 7, 1941, on the U.S.S. Arizona in the first wave of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

United States Air Force

  • James Phillip Fleming (born 1943) – United States Air Force pilot in the Vietnam War; awarded Medal of Honor for bravery
  • Arthur G. Salisbury (1916–2005) – Major General, USAF
  • George Allison Whiteman – first USAF airman killed in World War II; killed when attempting to get his plane off the ground at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; in 1955, Sedalia Air Force Base was renamed Whiteman Air Force Base in his honor

Other

  • William Gentry (1818–1890) – Major in the 40th Enrolled Missouri Militia; livestock farmer; railroad executive; candidate for Governor (1874)

Politics and government

Heads of state and heads of government

  • Emmet Montgomery Reily (1866–1954) – journalist; politician; Governor of Puerto Rico (1921–1923)
  • Charles Emmett Yeater (1861–1943) – graduate of the University of Missouri; acting Governor-General of the Philippines (March 5, 1921 – October 14, 1921)

Diplomats

  • John Flournoy Montgomery (1878–1954) – U.S Ambassador to Hungary (1933–1941)

Politicians

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Senator George Graham Vest
  • John Homer Bothwell (1849–1929) – lawyer; politician; member of the 35th and 38th General Assemblies of the Missouri legislature (1889 and 1895)
  • John Morgan Evans (1863–1946) – U.S. Congressman (1913–1921; 1923–1933)
  • Thomas Jefferson Halsey (1863–1951) – teacher; businessman; U.S. Congressman (1929–1931)
  • Judith K. Moriarty (born 1942) – politician; Missouri Secretary of State (1993–1994)
  • John William Palmer (1866–1958) – physician; lawyer; U.S. Congressman (1929–1931)
  • John Berchmans Sullivan (1897–1951) – lawyer; politician; U.S. Congressman (1941–1943; 1945–1947; 1949–1951)
  • George Graham Vest (1830–1904) – orator; lawyer; politician; at his death, the last living Confederate States Senator; known for his "Eulogy on the Dog"
  • Xenophon Pierce Wilfley (1871–1931) – teacher; lawyer; U.S. Senator (1918); president, Missouri Bar Association (1925)

Judiciary

  • Walter Henry Bohling (1888–1968) – Commissioner of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1934–1963)
  • Brown Harris (1876–1948) – Jackson County circuit court judge for 24 years
  • Henry Lamm (1846–1926) – lawyer; jurist; poet; Associate and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri (1905–1916)
  • Hazel Palmer – first female assistant prosecuting attorney in Sedalia, the first female county collector, and the first female magistrate judge of Pettis County; unsuccessful Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in 1958; president, National Federation of Business and Professional Women (1956–1958)
  • John Finis Philips (1834–1919) – lawyer; politician; colonel 7th Missouri Volunteer Cavalry; president, Missouri Press Association (1891); US Congressman; federal judge

Mayors of Sedalia

The following have been mayors of Sedalia:

  • 1864 – George Rappeen Smith (1804–1879)
  • 1865 – E.W. Warsburn (resigned)
  • 1865 – F.L. Parker
  • 1866 – John Finis Philips (1834–1919)
  • 1867 – Henry Suess (1837–1891)
  • 1868 – General Bacon Montgomery (1840–1888)
  • 1869 – Albert Parker
  • 1870 – William P. Jackson
  • 1871 – Thomas J. Montgomery
  • 1872 – George W. Cummings
  • 1873 – Dr. R. T. Miller
  • 1874 – William H. H. Hill
  • 1875 – Norman Maltby (1841–1876)
  • 1876 – David Blocher
  • 1877 – Logan Clark
  • 1878–1879 – George L. Faulgaber (1838-)
  • 1880 – E. C. Evans
  • 1881 – Frank Cravcroft
  • 1882–1883 – Charles E.Messerly
  • 1884–1885 – John B. Rickman
  • 1886–1887 – E. W.Stevens
  • 1888–1889 – John D. Crawford
  • 1890–1893 – E. W.Stevens
  • 1894–1898 – Pleasant Dawson Hastain (1854-)
  • 1898–1899 – W. C. Overstreet
  • 1900–1901 – Samuel K. Crawford
  • 1902–1905 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
  • 1906–1907 – John A. Collins
  • 1908–1910 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
  • 1910–1911 – J. W. Mellor
  • 1912–1913 – F. L. Ludemann
  • 1914–1917 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
  • 1918–1919 – A. L. Baumgartner
  • 1920–1923 – Frank F. Hatton
  • 1924–1927 – J. L. Babcock (?–1935)
  • 1928–1929 – O. B. Poundstone
  • 1930–1931 – S. B. Kennon
  • 1932–1933 – Wilmer Steeples (1891–1946)
  • 1934–1935: O. B. Poundstone; Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
  • 1936–1941 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
  • 1942–1945 – Alonzo H. Wilks
  • 1946–1949 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
  • 1950–1953 – Herbert E. Studer
  • 1954–1957 – Julian H. Bagby (1899–1990)
  • 1958–1961 – Abe Silverman (1899–1990)
  • 1970–1973 – Jerry N. Jones
  • 1978–1981 – Allen L. Hawkins
  • 1982–1989 – Larry Foster
  • 1989–1992 – Steven J. Dust
  • 1994–2001 – Jane Gray
  • 2002–2009 – Bob Wasson (1933–2009)
  • since 2009 – Elaine Horn

Sport

Baseball

Basketball

  • Kim Anderson (born 1955) – basketball player and coach

Billiards

  • Johnny Layton (1896–1956) – billiards champion; known as the "Diamond King"; won National Three-Cushion Championship 12 times (1919–1925); world champion (1928–1930); member of the Billiard Congress of America’s Hall of Fame (inducted 1974)

Football

Softball

  • Joey Rich (born 1956) – softballer, softball umpire, Amateur Softball Association Commissioner for the state of Missouri; president, American Amateur Softball Association (since 2007

Wrestling

  • Douglas A. “Ox” Baker (born 1934) – professional wrestler

Miscellaneous

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Bernarr Macfadden, "The Boxer", 1905
  • Bernard Adolphus McFadden (later Macfadden) (1868–1955) – promoter of physical culture; advocate of fasting
  • Francis Asbury Sampson (1842–1918) – author; Missouriana collector

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