Will Greitens' portrait ever hang in the hallowed halls of the Missouri Capitol?

JEFFERSON CITY • In the Missouri Capitol, paintings of the state’s former governors hang in a Missouri State Museum exhibit on the ground floor. Children shuffle past them, looking up at the men who have led the state. (Yes, they’ve all been men.) Visitors snap photographs as legislators and lobbyists breeze past the portraits.

Meriwether Lewis and William Clark — who served separate stints as governor of the Louisiana Territory after leading their famous expedition to the Pacific Ocean — have their likenesses affixed to the Capitol’s walls. A painting of former Gov. Warren E. Hearnes, who in the 1960s worked to outlaw racial discrimination, hangs near portraits of more recent governors such as Christopher “Kit” Bond, John Ashcroft and Jay Nixon.

The image of former Gov. Eric Greitens is not among them.

Will Greitens, who resigned in June after being accused of sexual coercion and campaign finance violations, one day commission a painting of himself to hang alongside his predecessors?

The answer isn’t clear.

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