Lafayette County, Missouri
| Lafayette County, Missouri | |
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Lafayette County Courthouse in Lexington
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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 | November 16, 1820 |
| Named for | Marquis de La Fayette |
| Seat | Lexington |
| Largest city | Odessa |
| Area | |
| • Total | 639 sq mi (1,655 km2) |
| • Land | 628 sq mi (1,627 km2) |
| • Water | 11 sq mi (28 km2), 1.6% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 32,701 |
| • Density | 53/sq mi (20/km²) |
| Congressional district | 5th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | www |
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| Elected countywide officials | ||||
| Assessor | Mike Dobson | Democratic | ||
| Circuit Clerk | Deana Aversman | Republican | ||
| County Clerk | Linda Niendick | Republican | ||
| Collector | Lori Fiegenbaum | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (Presiding) |
Harold Hoflander | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 1) |
Gil Rector | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (District 2) |
Tracy Dyer | Republican | ||
| Coroner | Daljeet Singh | Democratic | ||
| Prosecuting Attorney | Kristen Ellis | Democratic | ||
| Public Administrator | Barb Copenhaver | Republican | ||
| Recorder | Patsy Olvera | Republican | ||
| Sheriff | Kerrick Alumbaugh | Democratic | ||
| Surveyor | Mark Nolte | Republican | ||
| Treasurer | Dale Ensor | Democratic | ||
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| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 1,148 (35.28%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 979 (30.09%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 898 (27.60%) | |
| Ron Paul | 160 (4.92%) | |
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| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Clinton | 2,464 (60.75%) | |
| Barack Obama | 1,436 (35.04%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 106 (2.61%) | |
Lafayette County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,381. Its county seat is Lexington. The county was organized November 16, 1820 from Cooper County and originally named Lillard County for James Lillard of Tennessee, who served in the first state constitutional convention and first state legislature. It was renamed Lafayette County on February 16, 1825, in honor of Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de La Fayette, who was then visiting the United States.
Lafayette County is part of the Kansas City, MO-KS Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Lafayette County was settled primarily from migrants from the Upper Southern states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. They brought slaves and slaveholding traditions and started cultivating crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and tobacco. As a result, this part of Missouri, and neighboring counties, became known as Little Dixie. In 1860 slaves made up 25 percent or more of the county's population, and the county was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War.
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