OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Judicial Departments Commissioners of Supreme Court page 139 JAMES A. COOLEY (Republican), Kirksville. Born in Madison County, Iowa, January 26, 1872; educated in the public schools there, the State Normal School (now Northeast Missouri State Teachers College), Kirksville, Mo., and the Kansas State Normal School, Emporia, Kan. Married Miss RUBY BOWEN of Kirksville, in Huntsville, Mo., April 13, 1901. Admitted to the bar in March 1897. Served as City Attorney of Kirksville, 1899-1900; Prosecuting Attorney of Adair County, 1903-1904 and 1905-1906; elected Judge of the First Judicial Circuit in 1916, and re-elected in 1922 and in 1928. He resigned as Circuit Judge and was appointed Commissioner of the Missouri Supreme Court, February 22, 1929, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Edward Higbee. Was reappointed for terms of four years in 1931, 1935, and in 1939, his present term expiring April 10, 1943. Norma