OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members State Senate Page 57 EDWARD A. BARBOUR, Jr. (Democrat), Senator from the Twentieth District; born June 25, 1906, in Springfield, Mo.; educated in the public schools of Springfield, Drury College, University of Missouri and the Washington University of Law, St. Louis, Mo. He is an attorney, with offices at 919 Woodruff building, Springfield, and is unmarried. During the World War, he was in the Adjutant General Department of Camp McArthur at Waco, Texas. Long active in political affairs, he served in the State Legislature in 1923, later serving as assistant prosecuting attorney of Greene County and as city attorney of Springfield. He was elected to the State Senate in 1934 and served in the 58th General Assembly as chairman of the Committee on Elections, Redistricting and Constitutional Amendments, and in the 59th General Assembly as chairman of the Committee on Elections. Re-elected in 1938, he served in the 60th General Assembly as Chairman of the Committee on Insurance, and as a member of the following other committees: Appropriations; Criminal Jurisprudence; Municipal Corporations; Elections, Redistricting and Constitutional Amendments; Retrenchment, Reform, Abolition and Consolidation of Boards, Bureaus and Commissions; Normal Schools, Teachers Colleges and Libraries; Social Security and Pensions; Workmen's Compensations. Norma