1. Oliver Dwight Filley was an American businessman, abolitionist, and politician who served as the 16th mayor of St Louis, Missouri, from 1858 to 1861.
11 Facts About Oliver Filley
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Oliver Filley was the eldest of six children, five sons and one daughter, born to Oliver Filley and Annis Filley.
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Oliver Filley's siblings included Marcus Lucius Filley, Jay Humphrey Filley, Joseph Earl Filley, Giles Franklin Filley, Jennette Annis Filley and John Eldridge Filley, who all became prominent.
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Oliver Filley ran a successful tinware business in St Louis, eventually amassing a fortune and retired in 1873.
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Oliver Filley was a director of the Bank of the State of Missouri, and "subscribed largely" to the Kansas Pacific Railway.
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Oliver Filley contributed financially to Frank P Blair's antislavery newspaper the St Louis Union.
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Originally, Filley was a "hard money Jackson Democrat" and a personal friend of Thomas H Benton, the Democratic US Senator from Missouri from 1821 to 1851 who was a champion of westward expansion in the United States, a cause that became known as Manifest Destiny.
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Oliver Filley declared himself in full support of Free Soil and the emancipation of Missouri, leading him to support Martin Van Buren in the presidential election of 1848.
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Oliver Filley was the first Civil War mayor of St Louis and he became the first mayor elected for a two-year term under the new City Charter of 1859.
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In 1835, Oliver Filley was married to Chloe Velina Brown, the daughter of Eli Brown, in Bloomfied, Connecticut.
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Oliver Filley died on August 21,1881, of acute kidney disease while vacationing in Hampton, New Hampshire.