ROBERT BURETT OLIVER
1879 - 1882

R. B. Oliver, the third prosecuting attorney, was born in this county on January 23, 1850, and educated in the Shawnee Township schools, at Pleasant Hill Academy, and at the University of Missouri. He graduated in 1877 and opened a law office in Jackson. Elected prosecuting attorney in 1878, he served two terms. In 1882 he was elected to a four-year term as state senator. He and his wife, Marie Elizabeth Watkins Oliver (who was one of the designers of the Missouri State flag) lived at the Oliver House in Jackson until 1899, when they moved to Cape Girardeau. In 1903 he was elected state representative. During his public service he drafted the organization of the Little River Drainage District. He served as a curator of the University of Missouri from 1889 to 1902. He died October 16, 1934.

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