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Nathan Cole

American congressman and mayor (1825-1904)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ1966498 ↗
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Nathan Cole (July 26, 1825 – March 4, 1904) was an American politician and businessman. A Republican, he was the Mayor of St. Louis and a member of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri.

Early life and education

Cole was born on July 26, 1825, in St. Louis. The son of Nathan Cole Sr., he descended from the settlers of Plymouth Colony. His father was born in New York, and due to lackluster transportation, walked 100 miles (160 km) from Cairo, Illinois, to St. Louis in his journey there. Cole was possibly the first person born in St. Louis after its incorporation as a city.

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“Nathan Cole” enters the record as american congressman and mayor (1825-1904). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Nathan, Cole and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nathan Cole” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.