OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Judicial Departments Commissioners of Supreme Court JOHN H. BRADLEY (Democrat), Kennett. Born near Senath, Dunklin County, Missouri, January 23, 1875; educated in the public schools of his native county, Cape Girardeau State Normal School (now Southeast Missouri State Teachers College0, and the University of Missouri. He married Miss HETTIE HORNER of Kennett, October 6, 1903, and they have four children, Mrs. ALLETHA B. NOBLE, a member of the bar at Kennett, and wife of JOHN W. NOBLE, also a member of the bar there; GENE, a memger of the bar at Blytheville, Ark.; LAWRENCE, member of the bar at Kennett; and PAUL, a student at Northeast Missouri Teachers College at Kirksville. After his admission to the bar in June, 1902, following his graduation from the University of Missouri with the degree of LL.B, from the College of Law there, Judge Bradley engaged in practice of law in Kennett until 1903, when he moved to Senath. He returned to Kennett in 1909 and served as Prosecuting Attorney of Dunklin County from January of that year to January 1913. Re-entering private practice and, in November 1916, was elected Judge of the Springfield Court of Appeals for a term of twelve years. Renominated for that office in 1928, he was defeated and returned to his practice in Kennett. On April 12, 1935, he was appointed Commissioner of the Supreme Court, Division No. 1, and reappointed April 12, 1939, for a term expiring April 10, 1943. He was a member of the Board of Curators, University, from 1915 to 1921, serving as chairman of the executive board three years. Is a member of the Dunklin County, Missouri, and American Bar Associations. Norma