OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940 Legislative Department Members House of Representatives Page 81 OBIE I. FORD (Democrat), Representative from Oregon County; youngest member of the 60th General Assembly; born January 28, 1914, in Oregon County; educated in the public schools of Oregon County and the Alton, Mo., high school. He was married March 25, 1933, in Alton, to Miss NOLA HAND, and they have two children, JIMMIE REED and KINDLE DOUGLAS. An active member of the Young Democratic Club of Oregon County, he was elected in 1938 to the House of Representatives of the 60th General Assembly, serving as a member of the following committees: Agriculture; Pensions; Penal Institutions; Roads and Highways; State Library; Consolidation of Counties and Other Subdivisions of the State Government, Boards, Bureaus and Departments. J. ARTHUR FRANCIS (Democrat), Representative from Iron County; born in Glover, Mo., April 19, 1892; educated in the public schools of Iron and Reynolds Counties, Mo., Will Mayfield College, Marble Hill, Mo., and the Law Department of LaSalle Extension University, Chicago, Ill. He married Miss LULA J. VOLNER, October 16, 1910, in Clones, Mo., and they have five children, PAUL, FREDA, LOUIS, EVA and MARY. An attorney, he resides at Ironton, Mo. He was admitted to the bar in 1925 and is a member of the 21st Judicial Bar Association. Also is a member of the First Baptist Church of Ironton. He was elected County Treasurer of Iron County in 1920, and Prosecuting Attorney of that County in 1926 and re-elected in 1928. Was a delegate to the Democratic State Conventions in St. Joseph in 1928, St. Louis in 1932 and Joplin in 1936. Served as field agent in the Inheritance Tax Department under the former State Treasurer, R. R. Nacy, from 1933 to 1937. Was elected chairman of the Democratic Central Committee of Iron County in 1934 and chairman of the Democratic Committee of the Eighth Congressional District that same year. He was elected Representative from Iron County in 1930, and was elected again in 1938, serving in the 60th General Assembly as a member of the following committees: Employees and Clerical Force; Judiciary; Penal Institutions; Roads and Highways; Social Security and Old Age Assistance; Taxation and Revenue. Norma