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Lamar is a city in and the county seat of Barton County, Missouri, United States. [4] As of the 2020 census , the city population was 4,266. [ 5 ] It is known as the birthplace of Harry S. Truman , the 33rd president of the United States .
The Harry S Truman Birthplace State Historic Site is a state-owned property in Lamar, Barton County, Missouri, maintained by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, preserving the 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story childhood home of Harry S. Truman, the 33rd President of the United States. The future president was born here on May 8, 1884, in the ...
Barton County is a county located in the southwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri.As of the 2020 census, the population was 11,637. [1] Its county seat is Lamar. [2] The county was organized in 1855 and named after U.S. Senator David Barton from Missouri.
Lamar Township is a township in Barton County, Missouri, United States. As of the 2000 census , its population was 1,569. The township completely surrounds, but does not include, the city of Lamar, Missouri .
Lamar High School is the public high school in Lamar, Missouri, USA. It is part of the Lamar R-I School District which has 4 buildings the East Primary School (Pre-k - 2nd), West Elementary School (3rd - 5th), Lamar Middle School (6th-8th), and Lamar High School (9th - 12th).
Lamar: 1855: Jasper County: U.S. Senator David Barton (1783–1837), one of the first senators from Missouri 11,731: 594 sq mi (1,538 km 2) Bates County: 013: Butler: 1841: Van Buren (now Cass) County: Frederick Bates (1777–1825), the second governor of Missouri: 16,242: 848 sq mi (2,196 km 2) Benton County: 015: Warsaw: 1835: Pettis and ...
Lamar Municipal Airport (ICAO: KLLU, FAA LID: LLU) is a public airport located two miles southwest of the town of Lamar, in Barton County, Missouri, United States. [1]It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2025–2029, in which it is categorized as a local general aviation facility.
On March 3, 1919, while being held in Lamar in connection with the Wabash Railroad boxcar robbery in St. Louis, Lynch asked to use the jailhouse telephone. When Sheriff John Marion Harlow Jr. of Barton County opened his cell, Lynch fatally shot the sheriff with a gun he had earlier smuggled into the county jail.