Perry County, Missouri
| Perry County, Missouri | |
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Perry County courthouse in Perryville
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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 | Oliver Hazard Perry |
| Seat | Perryville |
| Largest city | Perryville |
| Area | |
| • Total | 484 sq mi (1,254 km2) |
| • Land | 474 sq mi (1,228 km2) |
| • Water | 9.8 sq mi (25 km2), 2.0% |
| Population (est.) | |
| • (2015) | 19,183 |
| • Density | 40/sq mi (15/km²) |
| Congressional district | 8th |
| Time zone | Central: UTC-6/-5 |
| Website | perrycountymo |
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| Elected countywide officials | ||||
| Assessor | Charles Triller | Republican | ||
| Circuit Clerk | Becky A. Paulus | Republican | ||
| County Clerk | Randy Taylor | Republican | ||
| Collector | Rodney J. Richardet | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (Presiding) |
Carl Lueckel, Jr. | Republican | ||
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Commissioner (District 1) |
Patrick Heaps | Democratic | ||
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Commissioner (District 2) |
Jim Sutterer | Republican | ||
| Coroner | Vacant | |||
| Prosecuting Attorney | Thomas L. Hoeh | Republican | ||
| Public Administrator | Tamara M. Tarrillion | Republican | ||
| Recorder | Sue Oster | Republican | ||
| Sheriff | Gary J. Schaaf | Republican | ||
| Surveyor | Tim Baer | Republican | ||
| Treasurer | Veronica J. Hershey | Republican | ||
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| 2008 Republican primary in Missouri | ||
| John McCain | 973 (43.59%) | |
| Mike Huckabee | 575 (25.76%) | |
| Mitt Romney | 542 (24.28%) | |
| Ron Paul | 96 (4.30%) | |
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| 2008 Democratic primary in Missouri | ||
| Hillary Clinton | 1,180 (61.24%) | |
| Barack Obama | 650 (33.73%) | |
| John Edwards (withdrawn) | 81 (4.20%) | |
Perry County is a county located in the southeastern portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 18,971. Its county seat is Perryville. The county was officially organized on November 16, 1820 (effective January 1, 1821) from Ste. Genevieve County and was named after Oliver Hazard Perry, a naval hero of the War of 1812.
The first inhabitants of what is now Perry County were Mississippian Mound Builders who cultivated corn and constructed earthen mounds. The Mississippian Cultures inhabited the region until their decline in the 12th and 13th centuries. Remnants of their earthen mounds can be found in the eastern part of the county. By the time of European contact, the area was populated by Native Americans of the Illinois Confederation who inhabited much of eastern Missouri.
During the 18th Century, the Perry County area, like the rest of the future State of Missouri, was part of French Louisiana, also known as the Illinois Country. For most of the 18th Century the area of present-day Perry County was left largely uninhabited, even by the French of nearby Ste. Genevieve. The latter was the first permanent White settlement in the Missouri area. In 1764, when the terms of the 1763 Treaty of Paris were announced in Louisiana, the French settlers found themselves transferred to an alien domination, that of Spain. In general the French were unhappy with the change of rule and the Spanish governance of the territory was an uneasy one, occasionally punctuated by armed rebellion. In the Ste. Genevieve area, the Spaniards, making a virtue of necessity, tended to let the French govern themselves. During the 1770s and 1780s members of the Peoria Tribe, whose situation had deteriorated under British and American rule in Illinois, migrated west across the Mississippi River into Ste. Genevieve and the lower part of the Bois Brule Bottoms.
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