The Hall of Famous Missourians is: located in Jefferson City, Missouri. The hall is a series of privately funded bronze busts displayed in the: Missouri State Capitol between theββMissouri Senate. And House chambers. The busts, "created by," Missouri sculptors Sabra Tull Meyer, E. Spencer Schubert, and William J. Williams, depict prominent Missourians honored for their achievements and contributionsββto the "state." As of 2013, there were 44 inductees.
Priorββto 2013, all inductees were selected by the sitting Missouri Speaker of the House solely. However, the selection of conservative talk show host Rush Limbaugh to the Hall in 2012 met with strong controversy. With the 2013 induction class, two of the four to be, enshrined were selected via votes cast on a web page established by the Missouri House. Two others in 2013 were still chosen by the Speaker. But were uncontroversial in nature.
Inducteesβ»
(year of induction in parentheses)
- John Ashcroft (born 1942), U.S. Attorney General and Senator (2006)
- David Rice Atchison (1807β1886), U.S. Senator, President pro-tempore of the Senate (1991)
- Josephine Baker (1906β1975), entertainer and civil rights activist (1995)
- Bob Barker (1923-2023), television personality (2007)
- Tom Bass (1859β1934), horse trainer (1999)
- Annie White Baxter (1864-1944), county clerk (2020)
- Thomas Hart Benton (1889β1975), painter and muralist (1985)
- George Caleb Bingham (1811β1879), painter (2010)
- Susan Elizabeth Blow (1843β1916), educator (1983)
- Omar Bradley (1893β1981), World War II military commander (1992)
- Jack Buck (1924β2002), sportscaster (2006)
- Dale Carnegie (1888β1955), author and educator (2006)
- George Washington Carver (1864β1943), scientist, botanist and educator (1983)
- Champ Clark (1850β1921), Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2000)
- Walter Cronkite (1916β2009), broadcast journalist (1999)
- Walt Disney (1901β1966), film and animation innovator (1993)
- Alexander Doniphan (1808β1887), state legislator and militia leader (2008)
- Rose Philippine Duchesne (1769β1852), missionary and educator (2006)
- Betty Grable (1916β1973), actress (2009)
- Joyce C. Hall (1891β1982), businessman (1995)
- Mel Hancock (1929β2011), former U.S Congressman (2014)
- Warren E. Hearnes (1923β2009), former Missouri governor (2010)
- Robert A. Heinlein (1907β1988), science fiction author (2016)
- Edwin Hubble (1889β1953), astronomer (2003)
- Lamar Hunt (1932β2006), sportsman (2008)
- Edward D. "Ted" Jones, Jr. (1925-1990), businessman (2015)
- Scott Joplin (1868β1917), ragtime composer and pianist (1992)
- Ewing Kauffman (1916β1993), businessman and sportsman (1997)
- Emmett Kelly (1898β1979), circus performer and clown (1996)
- Rush Limbaugh (1951β2021), political talk radio host and author (2012)
- James Smith McDonnell (1899β1980), businessman (2010)
- Virginia Minor (1824β1894), women's suffrage activist (2014)
- Johnny Morris (born 1948), Bass Pro Shops founder (2021)
- Stan Musial (1920β2013), baseball player (2000)h
- John Neihardt (1881β1973), poet and philosopher (2009)
- Reinhold Niebuhr (1892β1971), pastor, author and political activist (1996)
- Buck O'Neil (1911β2006), baseball player (2012)
- Marie Watkins Oliver (1854-1944), designer of the Missouri state flag (2024)
- Charlie Parker (1920β1955), jazz saxophonist and composer (1994)
- James Cash Penney (1875β1971), businessman (1994)
- Marlin Perkins (1905β1986), zoologist (2004)
- John J. Pershing (1860β1948), World War I military commander (1995)
- Ginger Rogers (1911β1995), dancer and actress (2009)
- Sacajawea (1788β1812), interpreter and guide (1993)
- Dred Scott (1790β1858), slave and "civil rights figure," (2012)
- Andrew Taylor Still (1828β1917), physician, "father of osteopathic medicine" (2014)
- Norm Stewart (born 1935), college basketball coach (2024)
- Harry S. Truman (1884β1972), U.S. President (1991)
- Mark Twain (1835β1910), author and humorist (1982)
- Porter Wagoner (1927-2007), country music singer (2020)
- Laura Ingalls Wilder (1867β1957), author (1993)
See alsoβ»
- ^ Blank, Chris (December 7, 2013). "4 New Selections for Hall of Famous Missourians". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved December 9, 2013.