JOSEPH D. PERKINS |
JOSEPH D. PERKINS,
Twenty-fifth circuit, Carthage (Democrat). - born in St. Francois county, Mo., in 1851;
educated in the public schools and at Elmwood Academy, Farmington, Mo.; admitted to the
bar in 1877; elected county school commissioner of St. Francois county in the Spring of
1877; elected prosecuting attorney of Madison county in 1878 and re-elected in 1880; in
1887 was elected city attorney of Carthage, Mo., to which city he had removed; elected
judge of the Twenty-fifth circuit in 1896 to fill out an unexpired term, and elected again
in 1898. Single. |