Alkire, Henry T
lawyer, legislator, jurist, was born Sept. 6, 1854, in Platte county, Mo. He received the rudiments of his education in the district school; graduated from the Kirksville State Normal school in 1875, and from the Missouri State university in 1881. He has attained prominence as an able lawyer of Oregon, Mo., of which city he has been mayor; and for three terms was city attorney. He was a member of the thirty-fifth general assembly of Missouri; was the nominee for secretary of state of Missouri; and in 1894 was elected probate judge of Holt county for four years. For six years he was chairman of the republican central committee; and for two years president of the Oregon school board; besides filling various other positions of honor. He has written extensively on law and judicial subjects, and is one of the brightest men of Missouri.