OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Judicial Departments Judges of Kansas City Court of Appeals page 144-145 WILLIAM EWING KEMP (Democrat). Associate Judge Kansas City Court of Appeals. Born February 8, 1889, on a farm two and one-half miles northwest of Lamonte, Mo.; educated in the Lamonte grade and high schools, Warrensburg State Normal (now Central Missouri State Teachers College), University of Missouri (A.B. 1914), where he took two years of law, then took his third year of law at George Washington University Law School, graduating there with LL.B. degree in 1917. He was admitted to the bar July 3, 1916. Immediately following his discharge from the Army in January, 1919, he engaged in general practice of law in Kansas City, becoming a member of the firm of Cooper, Neel, Kemp & Sutherland and remaining with that firm until his appointment to the Kansas City Court of Appeals by Governor Stark, November 22, 1938, to succeed the late Judge Robery M. Reynolds. He was married June 30, 1921, in Warrensburg, Mo., to Miss MARGARET N. JOHNSON. Resides at 1011 Romany Road, Kansas City, Mo. He entered military service as a private at Camp Funston, Kan., in August 1917, and there attended the third officer's training camp, where he was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant of Field Artillery; transferred to Camp Jackson, S.C., and later to Camp Taylor, Ky., as instructor in field artillery. Completed the course of training at the Artillery School of Fire at Fort Sill, Okla., and was transferred back to Camp Taylor, where he was discharged January 15, 1919. Has been a lifelong Democrat and has actively participated in behalf of the Democratic party in virtually every state and national campaign since he became of age. Never was a candidate for public office and, prior to his appointment to the Kansas City Court of Appeals, never held a public office. Norma