OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Department Members House of Representatives Page 77 HOWARD ELLIOTT (Republican), Representative from St. Louis County, Second District; born in St. Louis, June 29, 1904; educated at Columbia University, New York, N.Y., and at Washington University, St. Louis. He was married in St. Louis, November 21, 1931, to Miss RUTH ANN THOMAS, and they have two children, T. HOWARD GRAY and ANN. He is an attorney, as is Mrs. Elliott, and has offices in the Railway Exchange Building, St. Louis. He resides at 7601 Gannon, University City, Mo. Active for many years in Republican political affairs, he was one of the organizers of the Young Republicans Club of St. Louis County and of the Green Turtle Soup (Republican) Club. He also was a member of the Platform Committee of the 1938 Republican State Convention. One of the two Republicans in St. Louis County who survived the Democratic landslide of 1936, he was elected to the House of Representatives. Re-elected in 1938, he served in the 60th General Assembly as a member of the following committees: Rules; Appropriations; Judiciary; Revision; Municipal Corporations; Private Corporations; Justice of the Peace and County Courts. In 1937, he served as a member of the Conference Committee on Appropriations and of a special committee appointed by the governor to make a study of Social Security legislation, and served in 1938 on the Revision Commission which prepared for revision of the statutes in 1939. Norma