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Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 07:47:46 -0600
OFFICIAL MANUAL STATE OF MISSOURI 1939-1940
Judicial Departments Commissioners, Kansas City Court of Appeals page
145
M.D. CAMPBELL (Democrat). Born in Putnam County, Missouri, November 19,
1869; admitted to the bar at Lancaster, Mo., May 14, 1889, and practiced
law from that time at Kirksville until October 6, 1930, when he became
Commissioner of the Kansas City Court of Appeals.
Served as a member of the Constitutional Convention of Missouri of
1922-23, representing the Ninth Senatorial District; was elected Vice
President of the Convention and served on the following committees:
Taxation-the Collection and Disbursement of Public Revenues, and Suffrage
and Elections. Has served as Prosecuting Attorney of
Adair County, as City Attorney of the City of Kirksville.
Married EDITH McCLANAHAN of Corydon, Iowa, September 12, 1894; has four
children: JOHN; M.D. Jr.; A.D. and EDITH.
He was reappointed as Commissioner of the Kansas City Court of Appeals,
March 1, 1937. Resides in Kirksville.
FLOYD L. SPERRY (Democrat). Born September 16, 1895, in Henry County,
Missouri; educated in the Henry County rural schools, Clinton, Mo., high
school and the University of Missouri. Was admitted to the bar in 1920.
Is a livestock raiser on his farms near Clinton, where he resides.
Was married in April 1925, to Miss EFFIE CAROLINE JULIAN, and they have
six children, MARTHA JANE, BILL JOE, FLOYD LOGAN, NANCY SUE, THOMAS
JEFFERSON and HUGH GRAY.
Belonged to the Cadet Corps at Missouri University from 1913 to 1916, and
was a Captain in the Cadet Corps there in 1919 and 1920; to the 2nd
Missouri (Houn' Dawg Infantry from July 1, 1917 to October 1, 1917; 35th
Division, October 1, 1917, to March 13, 1918; and the Officers training
School; discharged January 9, 1919, having held the rank of Private,
Sergeant, First Sergeant and Lieutenant. He was a Captain in the
Missouri National Guard from 1923 to 1930.
Was chairman of the Henry County Democratic Central Committee, also of
the 6th District Democratic Congressional Committee, the 29th Judicial
Committee and the 16th District Senatorial Committee. Was Prosecuting
Attorney of Henry County from 1921 to 1924, inclusive, and Mayor of
Clinton from 1932 to 1936, when he was appointed Commissioner of the
Kansas City Court of Appeals.
He belongs to the Masons, Odd Fellows, Woodmen, Elks, Phi Delta Phi
Fraternity, Scabbard and Blade, and the Athenaean Society, and is a
member of the Baptist Church. Mrs. Sperry is a member of the Democratic
State Committee.
Norma
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