David Henry Hickman was a businessman, educator, and legislator from
Columbia, Missouri, United States.
He was a member of the
Missouri General Assembly
The Missouri General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Missouri. The bicameral General Assembly is composed of a 34-member Senate and a 163-member House of Representatives. Members of both houses of the General Assembly are ...
from 1838 to 1842 and helped compose legislation requiring the state to support public 'common schools' with at least twenty-five percent of the state's revenue. He was also instrumental in the founding and development of
Stephens College and served as a curator of the
University of Missouri
The University of Missouri (Mizzou, MU, or Missouri) is a public land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri. It is Missouri's largest university and the flagship of the four-campus University of Missouri System. MU was founded in ...
.
David H. Hickman High School was built on his country estate in 1927 and named after him. He is buried in the
Columbia Cemetery.
Footnotes
University of Missouri curators
Politicians from Columbia, Missouri
People from Bourbon County, Kentucky
Stephens College people
1821 births
1869 deaths
Businesspeople from Columbia, Missouri
Burials at Columbia Cemetery (Columbia, Missouri)
19th-century American businesspeople
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