Elliot Woolfolk Major | |
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33rd Governor of Missouri | |
In office January 13, 1913 – January 8, 1917 |
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Lieutenant | William Rock Painter |
Preceded by | Herbert S. Hadley |
Succeeded by | Frederick D. Gardner |
Attorney General of Missouri | |
In office 1909–1913 |
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Preceded by | Herbert S. Hadley |
Succeeded by | John T. Barker |
Personal details | |
Born |
Lincoln County, Missouri |
October 20, 1864
Died | July 9, 1949 Eureka, Missouri |
(aged 84)
Elliot Woolfolk Major (October 20, 1864 – July 9, 1949) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pike County, Missouri.
Born in 1864 in Lincoln County, Missouri, he served in the Missouri Senate, as the state's Attorney General, and was elected the 33rd Governor of Missouri in the 1912 election. He died in 1949 at Eureka, Missouri and is buried at the City Cemetery at Bowling Green, Missouri.