James Earickson was a U.S. politician from Missouri

Missouri

Missouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...

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James Earickson was born in Isle of Kent, Maryland, and moved to Missouri in 1818. He was elected to the Missouri State Senate in August, 1828. Less than five months later, in January, 1829, he was appointed as State Treasurer of Missouri

State Treasurer of Missouri

The State Treasurer of Missouri is a statewide elected official responsible for serving as Missouri's chief financial officer. The current State Treasurer is Clint Zweifel.-Duties of the State Treasurer:...

. On a personal note, he was married to the former Rebecca Malone and had three children. One of his granddaughters, Jane Perry Francis was married to Missouri Governor David R. Francis

David R. Francis

David Rowland Francis was an American politician. He served in various positions including Mayor of Saint Louis, the 27th Governor of Missouri, and United States Secretary of the Interior. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Russia between 1916 and 1917, during the Russian Revolution of 1917...