Elliot Woolfolk Major

Elliot Woolfolk Major


33rd Governor of Missouri
In office January 13, 1913 – January 8, 1917
Lieutenant	William Rock Painter
Preceded by	Herbert S. Hadley
Succeeded by	Frederick D. Gardner
Attorney General of Missouri
In office 1909–1913
Preceded by	Herbert S. Hadley
Succeeded by	John T. Barker
Personal details
Born	(1864-10-20)October 20, 1864 Lincoln County, Missouri
Died	July 9, 1949(1949-07-09) (aged 84) Eureka, Missouri

Elliot Woolfolk Major (October 20, 1864 – July 9, 1949) was an American lawyer and Democratic politician from Pike County, Missouri.

Biography

Born in 1864 in Lincoln County, Missouri, he served in the Missouri Senate, as the state's Attorney General, and was elected the 33rd Governor of Missouri in the 1912 election.^[1] He died in 1949 at Eureka, Missouri and is buried at the City Cemetery at Bowling Green, Missouri.

↑ "Missouri Governor Elliot Woolfolk Major". National Governors Association. Retrieved 2009-02-04.

Legal offices
Preceded by Herbert S. Hadley	Missouri State Attorney General 1909–1913	Succeeded by John Tull Barker
Political offices
Preceded by Herbert S. Hadley	Governor of Missouri 1913–1917	Succeeded by Frederick D. Gardner

Governors of Missouri

Territorial (1805–20)	Wilkinson Lewis Howard Clark

State (since 1820)	McNair Bates Williams Miller Dunklin Boggs Reynolds M. Marmaduke Edwards King Price Polk H. Jackson Stewart C. Jackson Gamble Hall Fletcher McClurg Brown Woodson Hardin Phelps Crittenden J. Marmaduke Morehouse Francis Stone Stephens Dockery Folk Hadley Major Gardner Hyde Baker Caulfield Park Stark Donnell Donnelly Smith Donnelly Blair Dalton Hearnes Bond Teasdale Bond Ashcroft Carnahan Wilson Holden Blunt Nixon Greitens (Elect)

Attorneys General of Missouri

Bates Easton Wells Napton Bay Stringfellow Robards Gardenhire E. Ewing Knott Welch Crittenden Wingate Johnson Baker H. Ewing Hockaday Smith McIntyre Boone Wood Walker Crow Hadley Major Barker McAllister Barrett Otto Gentry Shartel McKittrick Taylor Dalton Eagleton Anderson Danforth Ashcroft Webster Nixon Koster Hawley (Elect)

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