Elliott Woolfolk Major was a lawyer and a politician from Pike County, Missouri. He was born in Edgewood, Lincoln County, Missouri, on October 20, 1864. He was elected to the Missouri Senate in 1896 and served during the 1897 and 1899 sessions of the legislature. Major was the state’s attorney general from 1909–1913, and was elected governor on the Democratic ticket in 1912. He served one term and was instrumental in promoting construction of the new state capitol building. He died on July 9, 1949, in Eureka, Missouri, and is buried at the City Cemetery at Bowling Green, Missouri.