OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Judicial Departments Commissioners of Supreme Court page 140 HENRY J. WESTHUES (Republican), Jefferson City. Born in Westphalen, Germany,k June 5, 1888. He came to Glasgow, Howard County, Missouri, in 1892, and there he attended the Catholic schools, later the St. Louis University, graduating with the degree of LL.B. in 1912; admitted to the bar in 1911. He was married in 1916 to Miss HELEN ROER of Jefferson City, Mo., and they have seven children. He was appointed City Attorney of Jefferson City in 1913; succeeded himself in 1914, being elected for a term of two years; elected Prosecuting Attorney of Cole County in 1918, re-elected in 1920; elected Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial Circuit in 1922, and re-elected in 1928. On November 15, 1930, he resigned to enter the practice of law, and on December 1, 1930, he was appointed Supreme Court Commissioner to fill the unexpired term of Judge Berryman Henwood. He was reappointed in 1931, in 1935, and in 1939, for four-year terms. His present term ends April 10, 1943. Norma