OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Department Members House of Representatives Page 83 THOMAS J. GILL (Democrat), Representative from Jackson County, Fourth District; born March 13, 1906, in River Forest, Ill.; educated in the public grade schools, Central high school, and the Kansas City School of Law in Kansas City, Mo. Resides at 1314 East Twenty-eighth Street Terrace, Kansas City, and is engaged in the practice of law there, with offices at 1118 Commerce Building. He is a member of the Jeffersonian Democratic Club, 720 East Fifteenth Street, Kansas City, of which Gil P. Rourk is president. First elected to the House of Representatives in 1936, he acted as chairman of the Committee on Elections in the 59th General Assembly. Re-elected in 1938, he was chairman of the Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence and was a member of the following other committees in the 60th General Assembly: Public Health; Judiciary; Justice of the Peace and County Courts; Miscellaneous Resolutions. HARRY E. GLADISH (Republican), Representative from Lafayette County; born November 23, 1899, at Higginsville, Mo.; educated in the public schools of Higginsville. He was married in 1920 to Miss NELL M. HARRIS of Aullville, Mo., and they have a son, HARRY E. Jr. He is a manufacturer and resides at Higginsville. During the World War, he served overseas with Battery E, 128th Field Artillery, 35th Division. He is a member of the Baptist Church, a charter member and Past Commander of Post 223, American Legion; Past Master of Higginsville Lodge 364, A. F. and A. M.; member of Higginsville Chapter 106, R. A. C., and Past Patron, Higginsville Chapter 477 O. E. S. He was elected in 1936 to the House of Representatives of the 59th General Assembly and re-elected in 1938 to the House of Representatives of the 60th General Assembly, where he served as a member of the following committees: Approprations; Private Corporations; Commerce and Manufactories; Roads and Highways; Military Affairs; and Criminal Justice. Norma