| Accomplishments | |
| Sherriff who led the sacking of Lawrence in 1856 | |
| Raided Lawrence in 1863 with Missouri guerrillas, confederate soldier and outlaw | |
| U.S. Senator and supporter of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, leader of border ruffian raids into Kansas Territory | |
| Slave owner, Pastor of the Shawnee Methodist Mission, Kansas Territory was named after him | |
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