Early Missouri Jewish Officeholders
U.S. Representative
Nathan Frank (1852-1931), 1889-1891.
Mayors
William Taussig, Carondelet, 1852-1854.
William Taussig
Moses Alexander, Chillicothe, two terms, 1887-1891 (later elected twice as Idaho governor, 1915-1919).
Mannheim Goldman (1834-1907), Liberty, Missouri, 1895-1896 (first Jew to settle in the Kansas city area).
Isaac Hirsch (1836-1912), Chillicothe, 1897-1907.
State Representatives (all from St. Louis)
Adolph Abeles (1817-55), 1850-1852.
Meyer Friede (1821-88), 1860-1861.
Joseph Pulitzer (1847-1911), 1870-1871.
David Pareira (1850-1914), 1899-1903.
Louis Becker (1875-1953), 1911-1912.
Julius Razovsky (1892-1973), 1918-1921.
City Council Members
B. A. Feineman (1831-1912), Kansas City, 1875-1877.
Julius Wolf (bef. 1860-1912), Kansas City, 1896-1898.
Charles Weill (1852-1933), Kansas City, 1904-1907.
Thomas Cohen (1775-aft. 1867), St. Louis, councilman, 1829-1831, 1837-1838, 1848-1849, alderman, 1866-1867.
Isador Bush (1822-98), St. Louis, 1866-1867.
Isador Bush
Moses Fraley (1843-1917), St. Louis, 1877-1881.
Webster Samuel (1834-1905), St. Louis, 1879-1883.
Joseph Stern (1829-99), St. Louis, 1881-1883.
August Frank (1846-1922), St. Louis, 1885-1889.
Albert Arnstein (1856-1938), St. Louis, 1891-1895.
Solomon Boehm (1840-1927), St. Louis, 1906-1907.
Ferdinand Fishell (1838-1901), Louisiana, Missouri, 1875-1877.
Samuel Westheimer (1834-1914), St. Joseph, 1879-1885,
Simon Stern (1838-1913), St. Joseph, 1882-1886.
Moses Alexander, Chillicothe, 1886-1887.
Source
- Mark Rutzik, Breaking New Ground: The Untold Story of Early America’s Jewish Electoral Pioneers – 1788 to 1920, 2025.
Mark Rutzick is the curator of this Early Jewish Officeholders exhibit.