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Excelsior Springs is a city in Clay and Ray counties in the U.S. state of Missouri and part of the Kansas City metropolitan area. The population was 10,553 at the 2020 census. [4] It is located approximately 30 miles (48 km) northeast of central Kansas City, Missouri.
The Missouri Lumber and Mining Company (MLM) was a large timber corporation with headquarters and primary operations in southeast Missouri.The company was formed by Pennsylvania lumbermen who were eager to exploit the untapped timber resources of the Missouri Ozarks to supply lumber, primarily used in construction, to meet the demand of U.S. westward expansion.
Franklin is a city in Howard County, Missouri, United States. It is located along the Missouri River in the central part of the state. Located in a rural area, the city had a population of 70 at the 2020 census. [4] It is part of the Columbia, Missouri Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The first permanent settlement near the Great Falls was Fort Benton, established in 1846 about 40 miles (64 km) downstream from the Great Falls. [53] The Great Falls marked the limit of the navigable section of the Missouri River, [54] and the first steamboat arrived at the falls in 1859. [53]
Shafter is a city in Kern County, California, United States.It is located 18 miles (29 km) west-northwest of Bakersfield. [4] The population was 16,988 at the 2010 census, up from 12,736 at the 2000 census.
In the 2008 Missouri Presidential Preference Primary, voters in Dunklin County from both political parties supported candidates who finished in second place in the state at large and nationally. Former U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D- New York ) received more votes in Dunklin County, 2,587, than any candidate from either party during the 2008 ...
David James Shafer (born April 29, 1965) is an American politician who is a former chairman of the Georgia Republican Party. From 2002 to 2019, Shafer was a Republican member of the Georgia State Senate from Senate District 48, a suburban district located north of Atlanta that includes portions of Fulton County and Gwinnett County .