OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members House of Representatives Page 73 BENJAMIN EARL COWHERD (Democrat), Representative from Monroe County; born January 4, 1885, near Sante Fe, Monroe County,Mo.; educated in the Monroe County schools and at the University of Missouri. Married May 29, 1912, in Monroe County, to Miss JANEILA CONSTANCE WATERSTON, and resides at Paris, Mo., where he is engaged in the practice of law. He also operates a farm near Paris, where he maintains purebred herds of Jersey cattle, Delaine sheep and Angora goats. >From 1901 to 1905, he taught in the schools of Monroe and Audrain Counties, attending the University of Missouri School of Arts and Science during the summer semesters of 1904 and 1905 and the regular semesters, 1905-1906, and the School of Law there from 1906 to 1909. Following his graduation in 1909, he was admitted to practice in the State and Federal courts. A member of the fourth generation of a pioneer Democratic family, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1938 without opposition, and served in the 60th General Assembly as a member of the following committees: Accounts; Agriculture; Criminal Costs; Judiciary; Official Salaries and Fees; Pensions; Social Security and Old Age Assistance. HARTWELL G. CRAIN (Republican) Representative from St. Louis County, Third District; born at St. Louis, November 29, 1900; educated at Kirkwood high school and at the University of Michigan. He is single, an attorney with offices in Clayton, Mo., and resides at Webster Groves, R.F.D. No. 6. He was elected to the House of Representatives of the 58th General Assembly, and re-elected in 1938, serving in the 60th General Assembly as a member of the following committees: Judiciary; Ways and Means; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Municipal Corporations; Criminal Jurisprudence. Norma