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Hamilton Rowan Gamble

Hamilton Rowan Gamble (29 November 1798-31 January 1864) was the Republican Governor of Missouri from 31 July 1861 to 31 January 1864, succeeding Claiborne Fox Jackson and preceding Willard Preble Hall.

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Hamilton Rowan Gamble was born in Winchester, Virginia in 1798, and he became a lawyer in 1817. He moved to St. Louis, Missouri in 1818, and he became a lawyer in Franklin. He served as a prosecuting attorney, as Secretary of State of Missouri from 1824 to 1826, on the Missouri Supreme Court from 1846 to 1855 (as a Whig), and as the Unionist Governor of Missouri from 1861 to 1864. Gamble, himself a slaveholder, supported the resettlement of free Blacks in West Africa, and he protested the Emancipation Proclamation. He died in office in 1864.

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