List of Missouri Secretaries of State

The people below have all served as the Secretary of State for the U.S. state of Missouri.

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#	Name	Party	Term	Home county
1	Joshua Barton	Democratic-Republican	1820–1821	St. Louis
2	William Grymes Pettus	Democratic-Republican	1821–1824	St. Charles
3	Hamilton Rowan Gamble	Democratic-Republican	1824–1826	St. Louis
4	Spencer Darwin Pettis	Democratic	1826–1828	St. Louis
5	Priestly Haggins McBride	Democratic	1829–1830	Boone
6	John C. Edwards	Democratic	1830–1835	Cole
7	Henry Shurlds	Democratic	1835–1837	Washington
8	John C. Edwards	Democratic	1837	Cole (now Callaway)
9	Peter Garland Glover	Democratic	1837–1839	Callaway
10	James Lawerence Minor	Democratic	1839–1845	Marion
11	Faulkland Heard Martin	Democratic	1845–1849	Jefferson
12	Ephraim Brevard Ewing	Democratic	1849–1853	Ray
13	John M. Richardson	Democratic	1853–1857	Greene
14	Benjamin Franklin Massey	Democratic	1857–1861	Jasper
15	Mordecai Oliver	Unionist	1861–1865	Greene
16	Francis A. Rodman	Republican	1865–1871	Buchanan
17	Eugene F. Weigel	Democratic	1871–1875	St. Louis
18	Michael Knowles McGrath	Democratic	1875–1889	St. Louis
19	Alexander A. Lesueur	Democratic	1889–1901	Lafayette
20	Sam Baker Cook	Democratic	1901–1905	Audrain
21	John Ephraim Swanger	Republican	1905–1909	Sullivan
22	Cornelius Roach	Democratic	1909–1917	Jasper
23	John Leo Sullivan	Democratic	1917–1921	Pettis
24	Charles U. Becker	Republican	1921–1933	Polk
25	Dwight H. Brown	Democratic	1933–1944	Butler
26	Gregory C. Stockard	Republican	1944–1945	Cole (now Callaway)
27	Wilson Bell	Democratic	1945–1947	Washington
28	Edgar C. Nelson	Democratic	1947–1949	Cooper
29	Walter H. Toberman	Democratic	1949–1960	St. Louis
30	Robert W. Crawford	Democratic	1960–1961	Vernon
31	Warren E. Hearnes	Democratic	1961–1965	Mississippi
32	James Kirkpatrick	Democratic	1965–1985	Henry Barton Cole (now Callaway)
33	Roy Blunt	Republican	1985–1993	Greene
34	Judith Moriarty	Democratic	1993–1994	Pettis
35	Richard Hanson	Democratic	1994	Cole (now Callaway)
36	Rebecca McDowell Cook	Democratic	1994–2001	Cape Girardeau
37	Matt Blunt	Republican	2001–2005	Greene
38	Robin Carnahan	Democratic	2005–2013	Phelps
39	Jason Kander	Democratic	2013–2017	Jackson
40	Jay Ashcroft	Republican	2017–present	Cole