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Mercantile Bancorp, Inc.: Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. Announces New Director

^{Published on 2009-08-25 10:11:44 - Market Wire}
 

QUINCY, IL--(Marketwire - August 25, 2009) - Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. (NYSE Amex: [ MBR ]) today announced that Lee R. Keith has joined the company's board of directors.

Mr. Keith, president of Mid-Missouri Bank in Springfield, Missouri, brings over 30 years of executive leadership and community bank management experience to his role as director. "After years in bank management, I am looking forward to serving at the board level," said Keith. "I have spent most of my career serving Midwestern banks and now to have the opportunity to do so for such a well-established company and its solid group of community banks in a board capacity is very exciting."

"We are very pleased that Mr. Keith has joined our board," states Ted T. Awerkamp, President and CEO. "He is a strong and proven leader in community banking. We look forward to benefiting from his extensive experience and sound perspective."

About Mercantile Bancorp

Mercantile Bancorp, Inc. is a Quincy, Illinois-based bank holding company with majority-owned subsidiaries consisting of three banks in Illinois and one each in Missouri, Kansas, and Florida, where the Company conducts full-service commercial and consumer banking business, engages in mortgage banking, trust services and asset management, and provides other financial services and products. The Company also operates a Mercantile Bank branch office in Indiana. In addition, the Company has minority investments in eight community banks in Missouri, Georgia, Florida, Colorado, California and Tennessee.

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