“The Senate map last week represented a compromise and I think it is the map that is going to come out of the Missouri Senate ... It's the bottom line,” Rowden said. Despite the threat ...

When the territory of Missouri applied for admission to statehood ... that fugitive slaves could be apprehended north of the compromise line and returned to their owners.

The Missouri state Senate on Thursday reached a compromise on new congressional district map lines, ending a deep division among Republicans that created a monthlong impasse in one of the final ...

On this day in 1820, President James Monroe signed the Missouri Compromise, a measure aimed ... barred slavery in territories north of a line to be drawn at Missouri’s southern boundary, except ...

Mike Moon and Bob Onder — ended up voting for the compromise ... Ann Wagner. The Senate map also keeps both of Missouri's main military bases in the 4th District, a key demand of conservative ...

On March 3, 1820, Congress approved the Missouri ... latitude line, except for Missouri. But the House rejected the Senate bill and voted to admit Missouri without slavery. A compromise bill ...