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Lloyd Crow Stark (23 November 1886-17 September 1972) was the Democratic Governor of Missouri from 11 January 1937 to 26 February 1941, succeeding Guy Brasfield Park and preceding Forrest C. Donnell.

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Lloyd Crow Stark was born in Louisiana, Missouri in 1886, and he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1908 and served in the US Navy for four years before entering his family's nursery business. He served in the US Army during World War I, including during the Meuse-Argonne Offensive. He chaired Missouri's State Highway Bond Campaign from 1928, and he serve as Governor from 1937 to 1941, abolishing interstate trade barriers and establishing a merit system for the selection of state employees. He had a fierce rivalry with Harry S. Truman, who defeated his 1940 bid for the US Senate, having fallen out with Truman's ally and political boss Tom Pendergast in 1936. Stark died in 1972.

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