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Missouri
Secretary
of State

 

Office of the Governor

• Lilburn W. Boggs, 1836-1840
• Thomas Reynolds, 1840-1844
• Meredith Miles Marmaduke, 1844
• John Cummins Edwards, 1844-1848
• Austin Augustus King, 1848-1853
• Sterling Price, 1853-1857
• Trusten Polk, 1857
• Hancock Lee Jackson, 1857
• Robert Marcellus Stewart,1857-1861
• Claiborne Fox Jackson,1861
• Hamilton Rowan Gamble, 1861-1864
• Willard Preble Hall,1864-1865
• Thomas Clement Fletcher, 1865-1869
• Joseph Washington McClurg,1869-1871
• Benjamin Gratz Brown, 1871-1873
• Silas B. Woodson, 1873-1875
• Charles Henry Hardin,1875-1877
• John Smith Phelps, 1877-1881
• Thomas Theodore Crittenden, 1881-1885
• John Sappington Marmaduke, 1885-1887
• Albert Pickett Morehouse, 1887-1889
• David Rowland Francis, 1889-1893
• William Joel Stone, 1893-1897
• Lawrence Vest Stephens, 1897-1901
• Alexander Monroe Dockery, 1901-1905
• Joseph Wingate Folk, 1905-1909
• Herbert Spencer Hadley, 1909-1913
• Elliott Woolfolk Major, 1913-1917
• Frederick Dozier Gardner, 1917-1921
• Samuel Aaron Baker, 1925-1929
• Henry Stewart Caulfield, 1929-1933
• Guy Brasfield Park, 1933-1937
• Lloyd Crow Stark, 1937-1941

 

Office of Secretary of State

Commissions

• Absences of the Governor, 1920-2009
• Certificates of Election, 1838-2018
• City and County Charters, 1843-2009
• County Township Boundaries, 1838-2015
• Deeds and Easements, 1851-2011
• Departmental Plans, 2007-2011
• Executive Orders, 1943-2014
• Extraditions, 1985-2010
• Governor's Proclamations, 1892-2014, 2018
• Gubernatorial Appointments, 1838-2012
• Historic Preservation Certificates, 2000-2011
• Interstate Compacts, 1947-2010
• Itinerant Vendors' Licenses, 1911-1927
• Oaths of Office, 1843-2018
• Oaths of State Auditor Examiners, 1912-2011
• Ordinances, 1871-2011
• Pardons, 1836-2018
• Remitters of Fines and Bond Forfeitures, 1840-1990
• Service Awards, 1946-2011
• Special Census Enumerations, 1867-2004
• Writs of Election, 1838-2018

Elections

• Board of State Canvassers Reports, 1948-2018
• Certifications of Candidates and Party Emblems, 1922-2018
• Presidential Electors, 1872-2016

Publications

• Official Manual Contest Photograph Collection, 1991-2004

Secretaries of State

• Frances Rodman, 1865-1871
• Cornelius Roach, 1909-1917
• Dwight H. Brown, 1933-1944

Session Laws

• Session Laws, 1838-2018

Special Collections

• Missouri-Kansas Border War, 1858-1862
• Mormon War Papers, 1837-1841

 

Office of Adjutant General

• Civil War Courts Martial, 1862-1877
• Claims Commissions, 1874 (Civil War)
• Missouri Veterans Home (St. James) Applications, 1912-1994
• Missouri Veterans Home (St. James) Inmate Registers, 1897-1973
• Naval Militia, 1905-1960
• Records of Lewis M. Means, 1937-1941
• Soldiers' Bonus Commission (World War I)
• Spanish American War Biography and Service Records
• World War I Biography and Service Records
• World War I Home Guard Records

Civil War Regimental Returns

• Citizen Guards Regimental Returns
• Home Guards Regimental Returns
• Missouri Militia (General Order #3) Regimental Returns
• Missouri State Militia Regimental Returns
• Artillery, Missouri Volunteers Regimental Returns
• Cavalry, Missouri Volunteers Regimental Returns
• Engineers, Missouri Volunteers Regimental Returns
• Infantry, Missouri Volunteers Regimental Returns
• Organized Missouri Militia Regimental Returns
• Provisional Enrolled Militia (Order 107) Regimental Returns
• Provisional Enrolled Missouri Militia Regimental Returns
• Regimental Returns from Other States
• Six Months Militia Regimental Returns
• United States Colored Troops Regimental Returns
• United States Reserve Corps (Three Months Service) Regimental Returns
• United States Reserve Corps (Three Years Service) Regimental Returns

 

Department of Agriculture

Animal Health

• County Brand Books, 1836-1971

 

Department of Conservation

• Department of Conservation Photograph Collection, 1941-1998

 

Department of Corrections and Human Services

• Missouri State Penitentiary Photograph Collection, 1900-1991
• Missouri State Penitentiary, Inmate Files, 1890s-1960s

 

Department of Economic Development

• Division of Commerce and Industrial Development Photograph Collection, 1945-1970
• Division of Tourism Photograph Collection

 

Department of Health

• Death Certificate Index, 1910 – 1967
• Death Certificates, 1910 – 1963

 

Department of Natural Resources

Land Reclamation Program

Abandoned Mine Lands Photograph Collection, 1962-2003

 

Department of Transportation

• Department of Transportation Photograph Collection, 1920-1985

 

Boards and Commissions

• American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Missouri, 1969-1976
• Civil War Centennial Commission of Missouri, 1958-1967
• State Capitol Commission Photograph Collection, 1911-2004

 

Missouri General Assembly

Session Records

• General Assembly, 2000
• General Assembly, 2001
• General Assembly, 2002
• General Assembly, 2003
• General Assembly, 2004
• General Assembly, 2005
• General Assembly, 2006
• General Assembly, 2007
• General Assembly, 2008
• General Assembly, 2009
• General Assembly, 2010
• General Assembly, 2011
• General Assembly, 2012
• General Assembly, 2013
• General Assembly, 2014
• General Assembly, 2015
• General Assembly, 2016

House Communications

• House Communications Collections, 1895-2002

 

Joint, Interim, and Special Committees

• Joint, Interim, and Special Committees, 1842-2015
• Joint Committee on Corrections, 1959-2014
• Missouri Atomic Energy Commission, 1961-1982

 

Legislator's Papers

• Bill Boucher, 1992-2003
• John W. Cauthorn, 2001-2007
• Bill I. Foster, 1993-2005
• James V. Froelker, 1989-2003
• Mary L. Gant, 1967-1981
• Thomas D. Graham, 1951-1973
• Martin (Bubs) Hohulin, 1991-2003
• Jerry T. Howard, 1973-1977, 1987-1999
• Sidney Johnson, 1991-2003
• Ken Legan, 1981-2002
• Elizabeth Long, 1990-2001
• James L. Mathewson, 1975-2005
• Michael J. Reid, 1991-1993
• Randall Relford, 1996-2003
• Bill Scaggs, 1983-2003
• Albert M. Spradling, 1953-1976
• Tim Van Zandt, 1995-2001
• Carl M. Vogel, 1991-2003
• Emory Melton, 1973-1997

 

Missouri Supreme Courts

Office of State Courts Administrator

• County Courthouse Photograph Collection, 1969-1989

 

U.S. Recorder of Land Titles

First Board of Land Commissioners

• Papers of Original Claimants, 1777-1851

Second Board of Land Commissioners

• Papers of Original Claimants, 1785-1857

 

Manuscripts

• MS171 Daughters of the American Revolution Jane Randolph Chapter Collection, 1917-1923
• MS192 Gerald Massie Photograph Collection, 1928-1987 | See also photos on MDH
• MS245 Alex M. Petrovic Collection, 1951-1993
• MS317 Duke Diggs Jefferson City Photograph Collection, 1890-1939
• MS328 Salzwedel Early Missouri Document Collection, 1808-1870
• MS369 Bob Priddy Collection, 1861-2011 | See also postcards on MDH
• MS376 Colonial Dames of America Collection, 1821-1929
• MS409 Associated Press Photograph Collection, 1977-1993
• MS411 Tim Dollens Postcard Collection, 1905-1970s
• MS412 Gene Bushmann Postcard Collection, 1900-1985
• MS492 U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Collection, 1947-1990