Barton County, Missouri Biographical Spetches - Berry G. Thurman

OFFICIAL MANUEL OF THE STATE OF MISSOURI FOR THE YEARS 1889-90

Biographical Sketches page 219

Twenty-eighth District
Vernon, Barton and Jasper Counties ................Population 61,723

BERRY G. THURMAN (Democrat), of Lamar, Barton county, was born to Miller
county, June 25, 1851; was educated in the public schools and University of
Missouri, graduating from the law department of the university in March,
1873; was admitted to the bar in Barton county in 1873, removing soon after
to Greenfield, Dade county, where he entered upon the practice of his
profession; elected Prosecuting Attorney of Dade county in 1874, being the
first Democrat elected to any office in the county since the war, the
Republican majority at the time being about four hundred; re-elected in
1878; was for three years proprietor and editor of the Dade county
Advocate, the Democratic organ of the county, removed to Lamar, Barton
county in 1882; was nominated for State Senator, and elected to fill
vacancy caused by the resignation of Lieutenant-Governor Claycomb; is a
member of the law firm of Thurman, Wray and Stephens, of Lamar: taken an
active part in politics, and was a delegate to the St. Louis convention
that nominated Cleveland and Thurman. He is married.

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