OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members State Senate Page 55 CHARLES SIMS NELSON (Democrat), Senator from the Seventeenth District; born on the Nelson Plantation near Freeman, Cass County, Mo.; educated in the public schools of Cass County and the State Teachers College at Warrensburg, Mo. He married Miss GEORGIE ANN GEARHART in Main City, Mo., September 22, 1895. A farmer, he resides near Freeman, Mo. He formerly taught in schools of Missouri, Texas and New Mexico, and served three terms as assessor of Cass County. Is a member of the Missouri Corn Growers' Association and, in 1925, was awarded a medal for producing 115.1 bushels of corn per acre. He is a grand-nephew of R. L. Y. PEYTON, a member of the Missouri Senate from 1850 to 1860 who served as Senior Senator from Missouri in the Confederate Capital at Richmond, Va. After representing Cass County in the House of Representatives of the 48th, 49th, 50th, 57th and 58th General Assemblies, he was elected to the State Senate in 1936. In the 59th General Assembly, he acted as chairman of the Committee on Mines and Mining and in the 60th General Assembly, was chairman of the Committee on Normal Schools, Teachers Colleges and Libraries, and also was a member of the following other committees: Public Health; Banks and Banking; Agriculture; Roads and Highways; University and School of Mines; Naval Affairs and Permanent Seat of Government; Eleemosynary Institutions. Norma