OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Department Members House of Representatives Page 79 MELVIN E. FISH (Republican), Representative from Putnam County; born at Greentop, Mo., in 1886; educated in the public schools of Missouri, Northeast Missouri State Teachers College at Kirksville, from which he received a B. S. degree in 1913, later taking graduate work at the University of Missouri, at Washington University at St. Louis, and at the University of Chicago. He was married to Miss OCTA HILL at Lemons, Mo., June 9, 1915, and they have one daughter, Mrs. PHYLLIS BRUMMITT. A school superintendent and stock farmer, he resides at Pollock, Mo. He is a member of the Masonic Lodge at Unionville, Mo.; served as chairman of the Hog-Farm Program in Putnam County; has been superintendent of schools at Pollock and Lemons, Mo., and at Mound City, Kans., and principal of the literary department of the School for the Blind at St. Louis. He served as a delegate from the First Congressional District in 1937. Elected in 1938 to the House of Representatives, he was a member of the following committees in the 60th General Assembly: Social Security and Old Age Assistance; Roads and Highways; Children's Code; Claims, Local Bills and Miscellaneous Business; Fish and Game; Eleemosynary Institutions. Norma