OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members State Senate Page 61 JOHN M. McKEON (Democrat), Senator from the Thirty-second District; born October 29, 1882, in St. Louis, Mo.; educated in the parochial schools of St. Louis. August 22, 1906, he married Miss ANNA BURNS in St. Louis, and one daughter,. HELEN, was born to them. He was connected with the Missouri Pacific Railroad about twenty years and had been an insurance broker since 1916. His residence was at 3423 Eads Avenue in St. Louis, and he maintained offices at 714 Wainwright Building in that city. Although he worked for thirty-five years in the interest of the Democratic party, often serving as election official in the Sixteenth Ward in St. Louis, he was elected to his first public office in 1938 when he was named to the State Senate. In the 60th General Assembly he was appointed chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs and Permament Seat of Government, and also as a member of the following other committees: Penal Institutions and Reform Schools; Education; Railroads and Internal Improvements; Building and Loan; Bills Agreed To and Finally Passed. Senator McKeon had been in ill health several months but attended sessions of the General Assembly until early in March, 1939, when his condition forced him to return to his home. He entered the Lutheran Hospital in St. Louis, March 15, and died there March 18, 1939. Norma