Francis Marion Posegate (1838–1917), American Civil War soldier, journalist, and mayor of St. Joseph, Missouri from 1882 to 1884.

Frank's father, Isaac Posegate, was born in Virginia and raised in Fairfield Township, Highland County Ohio.

Although his family was Quaker and pacifist, Isaac named his two sons, Francis Marion and Winfield Scott after generals.

He continued in this line of work, eventually opening the first job printing office in St. Joseph with James A. Millan in 1856.

[1] The paper was published in a town on the border of Missouri and Kansas, where Posegate's extreme nationalist political views were not well received.

Posegate was firmly in support of the Union on the topic of secession, but was also against abolitionist views of another paper, the Free Democrat.

[1] However, his Unionist views were controversial in the south and Posegate moved back to Ohio a few days before the presidential election.

Posegate fought in the Siege of Vicksburg, after which he resigned his post on June 25, 1863, claiming bad eyesight.

His resignation letter in the National Archives is accompanied by a surgeon's certificate verifying the deterioration of Posegate's eyesight and his inability to fulfill his duties because of his vision.

[5] In 1858, Posegate married his first wife, Sarah (Sallie) Johnson from New Lexington, Highland County, Ohio.