Oliver Filley (23 May 1806-21 August 1881) was the Republican Mayor of St. Louis from 1858 to 1861, succeeding Washington King and preceding Daniel G. Taylor.
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Oliver Filley was born in Bloomfield, Connecticut in 1806, and he moved to St. Louis in 1829 and became a successful tinware businessman and bank director. A hard-money Jacksonian Democrat and friend of Thomas Hart Benton, he supported the Free Soil Party in 1848 and became a Republican. He served as Mayor from 1858 to 1861, and he died in 1881.