Andrew County, Missouri
| Andrew County, Missouri | |
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Andrew County Courthouse
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 Location in the U.S. state of Missouri |
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 Missouri's location in the U.S. |
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| Founded | January 29, 1841 |
| Named for | Andrew Jackson Davis |
| Seat | Savannah |
| Largest city | Savannah |
| Area | |
| • Total | 436 sq mi (1,129 km2) |
| • Land | 433 sq mi (1,121 km2) |
| • Water | 3.7 sq mi (10 km2), 0.9% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 17,296 |
| • Density | 40/sq mi (15/km²) |
| Congressional district | 6th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
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| Elected countywide officials | ||||
| Assessor | Ronald Christmas | Republican | ||
| Circuit Clerk | Tena Christmas | Republican | ||
| County Clerk | Cyndee Merritt | Republican | ||
| Collector | Phil Rogers | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (Presiding) |
Larry L. Atkins | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 1) |
John Rotterman | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 2) |
Darryl Howard | Democratic | ||
| Coroner | Doug Johnson | Republican | ||
| Prosecuting Attorney | Steven Stevenson | Republican | ||
| Public Administrator | Karen Keller | Republican | ||
| Recorder | Rosa Lea Lancey | Republican | ||
| Sheriff | Bryan Atkins | Republican | ||
| Surveyor | F. Shane Terhune | Republican | ||
| Treasurer | Cindy Esely | Republican | ||
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| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 501 (27.96%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 484 (27.01%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 641 (35.77%) | |
| Ron Paul | 120 (6.70%) | |
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| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Clinton | 1,067 (56.94%) | |
| Barack Obama | 746 (39.81%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 39 (2.08%) | |
| Uncommitted | 16 (0.85%) | |
Andrew County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the county had a population of 17,291. Its county seat is Savannah. The county was organized January 29, 1841 and named for Andrew Jackson Davis, a lawyer and prominent citizen of St. Louis.
Andrew County is part of the St. Joseph, MO-KS Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is included in the Kansas City, Missouri, Kansas City metropolitan area.
The following material is inscribed on a plaque erected by the State Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission in 1960, now located by the Andrew County Courthouse.
Andrew County, organized 1841, is one of six counties in the Indian Platte Purchase Territory annexed to Missouri in 1837. Named for Andrew Jackson Davis, a St. Louis editor, the county was first settled in the middle 1830s. Pioneers were from Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, and other parts of Missouri.
Savannah, the county seat, was laid out in 1841. First briefly called Union, it was renamed for Savannah, Georgia. The Platte County Railroad (CB&Q) reached there in 1860, and today's Chicago, Great Western in the late 1880s. The town grew as a shipping point and trading center in the post Civil War era.
Divided during the Civil War, Andrew County sent troops to both sides. In August 1861, 1,500 soldiers from Andrew County and other counties joined the pro-Southern Missouri State Guard at Camp Highly in eastern Andrew County while others joined a large Union cap in adjacent Gentry County. In 1861, Union troops seized "Northwest Democrat," a pro-Southern newspaper, in Savannah and troops from Camp Highly seized the "Plain Dealer," a Union newspaper. Raiding guerrilla bands overran the county through 1863.
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