OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Department Members House of Representatives Page 99 D.A. PEERY (Democrat), Representative from Linn County; born in Linneus, Mo., January 23, 1881; educated in the Linneus high school and Chillicothe, Mo., Normal and Business College; married Miss PEARL KNAPP, November 2, 1909, in Linneus, and they have two children, RUTH, wife of the Rev. CARL W. HEWLETT, Baptist minister at Brunswick, Mo., and DAVID PEERY, Jr., an instructor at Carnegie Tech, Pittsburg, Pa. Was township Clerk and Assessor of Linn County, 1907-1909; County Surveyor, 1909-1921; member of the Linneus Board of Education, 1922-1928; chairman of the Linn County Democratic Central Committee, 1928-1930, and member of the Democratic State Committee, 1928-1930. He was a member of the House of Representatives of the 56th, 57th, 58th, and 59th General Assemblies, and was re-elected in 1938, serving in the 60th General Assembly as chairman of the Fish and Game Committee, which post he also held in the 59th General Assembly. He also was a member of the following other committees in the 60th General Assembly; Agriculture; Appropriations; Banks and Banking; Penal Institutions; Roads and Highways. Norma