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Spencer Pettis

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Spencer Darwin Pettis (1802 – August 28, 1831), U.S. Representative from Missouri. The fierce campaign of 1830 led to a quarrel over the United States Bank issue with Major Thomas Biddle. The quarrel escalated into a duel in which he was killed on a sandbar near St. Louis, Missouri.

Preceded by Missouri Secretary of State
1826–1828 		Succeeded by
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