Nathan Cole (July 26, 1825March 4, 1904) was a nineteenth-century politician, merchant and businessman from

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Biography

Born in

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, Cole attended common schools as a child and later took a partial course at

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. He engaged in mercantile pursuits in St. Louis, was a director of the Bank of Commerce for forty-three years, most of which time he was also vice president of the bank, and was a director in a number of insurance and other corporations. Cole served as Mayor of St. Louis, Missouri from 1869 to 1871, was president of the Merchants' Exchange in 1876 and was elected a

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to the

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in 1876, serving from 1877 to 1879, being unsuccessful for re-election in 1878. Afterward, he resumed his former business activities in St. Louis until his death there on March 4, 1904. He was interred in

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in St. Louis. His son,

Nathan Cole Jr. Nathan Cole Jr. (1860–1921) was one of the two founders of the ''Los Angeles Daily Times,'' now the ''Los Angeles Times''. The son of Nathan Cole, a wealthy St. Louis, Missouri, politician and banker, he was 21 years old in 1881 when he and a c ...

, was one of the founders of the ''

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'', in 1881.

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St. Louis Mayors: an Online Exhibit
1825 births 1904 deaths Mayors of St. Louis Burials at Bellefontaine Cemetery Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Missouri 19th-century American politicians 19th-century American businesspeople {{Missouri-mayor-stub