James Kirkpatrick

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James C. Kirkpatrick (June 15, 1905 - December 26, 1997) was a politician from the U.S. State of Missouri. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as Missouri's Secretary of State from 1965 to 1985, establishing the current Missouri record for tenure of an elected state constitutional officer.

Kirkpatrick was a publisher by trade; the Northwest Missouri Press Association gives an annual award bearing his name.

Numerous public facilities in Missouri have been named in Kirkpatrick's honor. Senate Concurrent Resolution 36, passed in 1998, renamed Missouri's State Information Center the James C. Kirkpatrick Information Center. The main library at Central Missouri State University in Warrensburg, Missouri, is named the James C. Kirkpatrick Library.

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Missouri Secretary of State's Office Missouri State Senate Missouri Press Association Obituary

Preceded by Warren E. Hearnes

Missouri Secretary of State 1965–1985

Succeeded by Roy Blunt