OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members House of Representatives Page 107 JAMES CLARENCE WOODSMALL (Democrat), Representative from Scotland County; born on the present site of Gorin, Scotland County, Missouri, February 13, 1875; educated in the rural schools of Saline County, the Marshal high school, Gem City Business College at Quincy, Ill., and Missouri Valley College at Marshall, where he received his A.B. degree. He taught in the rural schools of Saline County five years and was principal of the Memphis, Mo. high school two years. Married Miss RACHAEL ELLEN HAMMOND, May 5, 1908, at Memphis, Mo., and they have two children, Mrs VIRGIL K. SCOTT of Columbia, Mo., and JAMES C. WOODSMALL, Jr., of Memphis, Mo. Formerly a banker, he now is in the insurance business and resides at Memphis, Mo. He is a Mason and an Elder in the Presbyterian Church at Memphis; served several years on the city council; as City Treasurer, and as a member of the Board of Education. Elected to the House of Representatives of the 57th General Assembly, he was re-elected in 1936 to the 59th General Assembly and in 1939 served in the House of Representatives of the 60th General Assembly as chairman of the Committee on Education and as a member of the following other committees: Banks and Banking; State Teachers Colleges; Social Security; Taxation and Revenue; Workmen's Compensation. M. J. WOODWARD (Democrat), Representative from Clinton County; born October 27, 1879, in Buchanan County. Mo.; educated in the public schools of Clinton County, and at Plattsburg College, Plattsburg, Mo. He has been a widower since the death March 15, 1938, of his wife, the former Miss SUZANN McKOWN, member of the pioneer Clinton County family, to who he was married October 4, 1904. He is in the insurance, farm loan and real estate business, and resides at Plattsburg. He was elected assessor of Clinton County in 1912 and re-elected in 1916; elected county clerk in 1922 and 1926, and to the House of Representatives in 1938, serving in the 60th General Assembly as a member of the following committees: Agriculture; Roads and Highways; School of Mines; Social Security; State Teachers Colleges; Taxation and Revenue. Norma End of Legislative Departments