Richard R. Nacy 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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Biography

Richard R. Nacy was born and raised in Jefferson City, Missouri

Jefferson City, Missouri

Jefferson City is the capital of the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Cole County. Located in Callaway and Cole counties, it is the principal city of the Jefferson City metropolitan area, which encompasses the entirety of both counties. As of the 2010 census, the population was 43,079...

. As a young boy, he was a very talented baseball player and was heavily scouted by the major leagues. However, his father died when he was 16 and he had to quit school to help support his family. During World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

, he served in the Allied Expeditionary Forces in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

. Following the war, he was elected as City Clerk of Jefferson City in June 1919, serving in that post for nearly four years. In February 1920, he was married to the former Anna F. Dorsey and had three sons. In January 1923, he became Circuit Court Clerk of Cole County, Missouri, and was reelected to two additional terms in 1926 and 1930. In 1932, he was elected 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:...

. During his tenure, the state endured one of the most distressing times in banking history due to the Great Depression. Upon completion of his term as State Treasurer in January 1937, he became a Vice President at the Jefferson City-based Central Missouri Trust Company. From August 1948 to January 1949, he served as State Treasurer again, filling a vacancy created by the death of incumbent Robert W. Winn

Robert W. Winn

Robert William Winn was a U.S. politician from Missouri.He was born and raised in New London, Missouri. From 1931 to 1937 he served as Clerk of Ralls County, Missouri. In 1937, he became State Treasurer of Missouri, serving in that capacity until January 1941, when he was appointed Commissioner of...

. Upon completion of his second term as State Treasurer, he returned to Central Missouri Trust Company, where he served as President until his death. He was mentioned in Theodore White's book "The Making of a President 1960" as being instrumental in bringing conservative Missouri into the Kennedy

John F. Kennedy

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy , often referred to by his initials JFK, was the 35th President of the United States, serving from 1961 until his assassination in 1963....

 camp and helping ensure Kennedy's election in 1960

United States presidential election, 1960

The United States presidential election of 1960 was the 44th American presidential election, held on November 8, 1960, for the term beginning January 20, 1961, and ending January 20, 1965. The incumbent president, Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower, was not eligible to run again. The Republican Party...

. He died just ten days before the inaugural, to which he and his wife had been invited.