Jack Buck

Historical marker location:

700 Clark Avenue, Saint Louis, Missouri

( Marker is on Clark Avenue east of South 8th Street (Old U.S. 66), on the right when traveling east.)

August 21, 1924 - June 18, 2002.

The famous Dred Scott case, which helped fuel the tensions that led to the Civil War, originated in Missouri. Dred Scott was a slave who sued for his freedom in the Missouri courts in 1857, but the U.S. Supreme Court ultimately ruled against him.