OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Departments Members State Senate Page 51 FRANK P. BRIGGS (Democrat), Senator from the Ninth District; born February 25, 1894, in Armstrong, Mo.; educated in the public schools of Armstrong, the high school and Central College at Fayette, Mo., and was graduated from the University of Missouri in 1915. A newspaperman by profession, he has edited newspapers at Shawnee and Oklahoma City, Okla., and owned and edited papers at Moberly, Trenton and Fayette, Mo. He now owns and publishes the Chronicle-Herald at Macon, Mo., where he resides. Was married May 28, 1916, to Miss CATHERINE ALLEN SHULL of St. Joseph, Mo., and they have five children, THOMAS, EUGENE, DARLENE RUTH, BETTY BARBARA, and DOROTHY CATHERINE. He became Macon's first Democratic mayor in fifty-two years when he was elected in 1930, and was re-elected in 1932. Active in Masonic circles many years, he served as Grand High Priest of the Grand Chapter, Royal Arch Masons, 1936-1937. He was also President of the Missouri Associated Dailies in 1937 and 1938. First elected to the Senate in 1932, he was named chairman of the Committees on Municipal Corporations; Clerical Force; Printing and Joint Printing in the 57th General Assembly. Re-elected in 1936, he acted as chairman of the Committee on Education and of the Committee on Bills Perfected and Ordered Printed in the 58th General Assembly; in the 59th General Assembly again was chairman of those committees, and in the 60th General Assembly, of the same committees, in addition to being a member of the following other committees: Public Health; Eleemosynary Institutions; Railroads and Internal Improvements; Retrenchment, Reform, Abolition and Consolidation of Boards, Bureaus and Commissions; Printing; Appropriations; Fish and Game; Roads and Highways; Normal Schools, Teachers Colleges and Libraries; Social Security and Pensions; Rules and Joint Rules. Norma