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Lafayette County is a county located in the western portion of the U.S. state of Missouri. As of the 2010 census, the population was 33,381.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/29/29107.html )〕 Its county seat is Lexington.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 The county was organized November 16, 1820 from Cooper County and originally named Lillard County for James Lillard of Tennessee, who served in the first state constitutional convention and first state legislature.〔 〕 It was renamed Lafayette County on February 16, 1825, in honor of Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de La Fayette, who was then visiting the United States. Lafayette County is part of the Kansas City, MO-KS Metropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Lafayette County was settled primarily from migrants from the Upper Southern states of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia. They brought slaves and slaveholding traditions and started cultivating crops similar to those in Middle Tennessee and Kentucky: hemp and tobacco. As a result, this part of Missouri, and neighboring counties, became known as Little Dixie. In 1860 slaves made up 25 percent or more of the county's population, and the county was strongly pro-Confederate during the American Civil War.〔T. J. Stiles, ''Jesse James: The Last Rebel of the Civil War'', New York: Vintage Books, 2003, pp. 10-11〕 Newcomers from Germany as well as German Americans from St. Louis began arriving shortly before the war, with many more to come afterwards. They eventually made up a large part of the populations of Concordia, Emma, Wellington, Napoleon, Higginsville, Mayview, and Lexington. The German immigrants generally supported the Union during the war. In November 2013, Leland Ray Kolkmeyer pled guilty, in federal court, of a fraud scheme in which he embezzled more than $1.5 million from Wellington-Napoleon Fire Protection District and Special Road District while being their former treasurer.〔(Public servant steals $1.5 million from two tiny towns in Missouri; The Kansas City Star; November 22, 2013. )〕〔(Treasurer admits to embezzling over $1 million from small towns’ funds; Fox4KC; November 22, 2013. )〕〔(Treasurer for road district and fire district pleads guilty to embezzling $1.5 million; justice.gov; November 20, 2013. )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Lafayette County, Missouri」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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