Al Sikes to sign his new book Saturday in Sikeston

Friday, March 4, 2016

Al Sikes, former Sikeston, Missouri, resident and an early pioneer of the rise of the Missouri Republican party under the leadership of Jack Danforth (who was elected state attorney general in 1968), took a position as assistant attorney general in the first breach in the Democratic political machine, which had controlled Missouri politics for over 30 years.

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