John Peter Didier was a U.S. politician and the first 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:...

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John Peter Didier was reportedly a native of France

France

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. Prior to emigrated to the United States, he married Marie Elizabeth Mercier in 1773. A prominent government official in the Missouri Territory

Missouri Territory

The Territory of Missouri was an organized incorporated territory of the United States that existed from June 4, 1812 until August 10, 1821, when the southeastern portion of the territory was admitted to the Union as the State of Missouri.-History:...

, he served as Fire Captain in St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis, Missouri

St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...

from 1811 to 1817. In 1817, he became Territorial Treasurer, serving in that post for a year. In 1820, he was appointed as the first State Treasurer following the signing of the state constitution, but before Missouri was official admitted as a state. Along with the other provisional state officeholders, he resigned in 1821 when Missouri officially became a state. Public records indicate that he died two years later on August 25, 1823.