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[email protected] , WE WILL POST THEM !Sikeston, Missouri -From Wikipedia -Sikeston is a city in New Madrid and Scott counties in the state of Missouri. It was founded by John Sikes (1816-1867) in 1860.As of the 2000 census, the city population was 16,992, making it the second most populous city in Missouri's 8th Congressional district behind Cape Girardeau (population 35,349). -By way of Interstate 55 Sikeston is close to the halfway point between St. Louis and Memphis and Interstate 57 begins in Chicago and ends in Sikeston.- The city of Miner borders Sikeston to the east. As of 2005, the Sikeston-Miner area had a combined population of approximately 20,000 people.- People from Sikeston -Sikeston is the birthplace of congressmen Kenny C. Hulshof (1958- ), Assistant Minority Missouri Senate Leader Maida Coleman (1954- ), and the nearby birthplace of former congressman Charles Augustus Crow (1873-1938), representative to the Sixty-first Congress.
NFL players James Wilder and Brandon Barnes were standout players on the Sikeston Bulldogs football team. Wilder was an All-Pro running back with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in which he set numerous team records. Barnes was an all-conference linebacker at the University of Missouri and then played a year with the Washington Redskins.
Blake DeWitt, former Sikeston High School baseball standout, drafted in the first round (26th overall pick) in the 2004 MLB Draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers, was also born in Sikeston.
Actress Jacqueline Scott who made multiple appearances on Gunsmoke, The Outer Limits, Bonanza, The Fugitive, Ironside, Planet of the Apes, and Barnaby Jones was also born in Sikeston.
Sikeston native Mimi Allen Smitten was a professional harpist who performed for the president, gave concerts in Europe, and recorded children's music
Authors Robert Vaughan and Terry Teachout have also lived in Sikeston.
Alfred C. Sikes, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Thornton Wilson, former Chairman of the Board and Chief executive officer of Boeing was born in Sikeston, Peter C. Myers, former Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Karen Wheeler, Rockabilly singer and the daughter of musician Onie Wheeler, was born in Sikeston, Edgar Desmond Lee, co-founder of Lee-Rowan Company was born in Sikeston, David Blanton, former U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Missouri
