OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members of State Senate Page 53 RAYMOND E. COX (Democrat), Senator from the Eleventh District; born February 7, 1896, in Audrain County, Mo.; educated in the public schools of Centralia, Mo., and the University of Missouri. On February 21, 1938, he was married in Audrain County to NOVELLA NORMA PURDUM of Moberly, Mo., and they reside at Centralia, Route No. 4, he having spent his life on a farm. He was elected to the House of Representatives from Audrain County in 1928 and re-elected in 1930 on a platform to reduce and limit the number of legislative clerks, which culminated in adoption at the General Election in 1932 of a constitutional amendment limiting each branch of the General Assembly to seventy-five employees. In 1936, he was elected to the State Senate on a platform to reduce and limit the number of state-owned automobiles in Missouri. His biography is included in the national publications of "Who's Who in Government" and "America's Young Men". In the 59th General Assembly, he acted as chairman of the Committee on Permanent Seat of Government and Naval Affairs. In the 60th General Assembly, he was chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining, and also was a member of the following other committees: Public Health; Eleemosynary Institutions; Commerce and Manufactories; Agriculture; Retrenchment, Reform, Abolition and Consolidation of Boards; Bureaus and Commissions; Normal Schools, Teachers Colleges and Libraries. Norma