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Joe C. Welborn was born on April 9, 1915. He served as prosecuting attorney for Stoddard County for three terms, total, elected in 1940, 1946, and 1948. He married the sister of the noted Rudyard Kipling (Kip) Briney, once one of the very most prominent figures in Stoddard County politics. Together with Missouri Senator Yewell Lawrence and Charles Prather (an Advance, Missouri, banker), Briney operated something of a political machine, which Mr. Welborn discusses in interesting detail.I first learned of Mr. Welborns service as prosecuting attorney during my interview with his brother, Robert R. Welborn. I contacted the former Mr. Welborn and secured an appointment with him during a week of extensive interviews in southeast Missouri. The morning of the session I drove to Bloomfield from Sikeston, and in Stoddard County, crossed Crowleys Ridge, the prominent geographical feature which demarcates the hill country in Stoddard and other southeast Missouri counties from the delta cotton farming country with its legacy of sharecroppers and tenants. Just down the hill from the Stoddard County courthouse I located Mr. Welborns Bloomfield home, an attractive, historic, brick structure set in among many tall shade trees. We sat in the little den, just beyond the side entrance, for the recorded session.An Interview with Joe C. Welborn at his home in Bloomfield, Missouri 03 June 1997 interviewed by Will Sarvis Oral History Program The State Historical Society of Missouri © 1997 Collection C3929 Politics in Missouri a.c. 151, 152 NOTICE 1) This material is protected by copyright...
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