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

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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

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from 1869 to 1871, was president of the Merchants' Exchange in 1876 and was elected a Republican 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., 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 businesspeople 19th-century mayors of places in Missouri 19th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Missouri-mayor-stub