OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members State Senate Page 60 ALLEN McREYNOLDS (Democrat), Senator from the Twenty-eighth District; born in Carthage, Mo., November 7, 1877; educated in the public grade and high schools of his native state and the University of Missouri. He married Miss MAUDE ATWOOD CLARK, and they have two children, HELEN ELIZABETH and ALLEN, Jr. Senator McReynolds is an attorney and resides at Carthage, Mo. He has served in the National Guard of Missouri. He has been active in civic and professional affairs for many years. Prominent in Missouri politics, he was appoainted by Governor CAULFIELD as a member of the State Survey Commission, and also is a former member of the State Eleemosynary Board. During Governor PARK's administration, he was chosen by the chief executive as chariman of his Committee on Social Security. Elected to the State Senate in 1934 and re-elected in 1938, he served in the 58th General Assembly as chairman of the Committee on Eleemosynary Institutions. In both the 59th and 60th General Assemblies, he acted as chairman of the Committee on Social Security and Pensions, aalso being a member of the following committees in the 60th General Assembly: Banks and Banking; Bills Agreed To and Finally Passed; Building and Loan; Eleemosynary Institutions; Labor; Mines and Mining; Retrenchment, Reform and Abolition and Consolidation of Boards, Bureaus and Commissions; Rules and Joint Rules; University and School of Mines; Wills and Probate Law. He was appointed in the fall of 1938 as chairman of a committee to study the statutes applying to children and make recommendations for a children's code. Norma