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Senate Committees:

71st General Assembly – Agriculture (chairman); Appropriations; Public Health and Welfare; Education; Banks, Banking and Financial Institutions; Correctional Institutions; Employment Security; Workmen’s Compensation; and Economic and Major Expenditures.

72nd General Assembly – Agriculture (chairman); Banks, Banking and Financial Institutions (vice chairman); Appropriations; Correctional Institutions; Economics and Major Expenditures; Employment Security; and Public Health and Welfare.

73rd General Assembly – Agriculture (chairman); Appropriations; Banks and Banking and Financial Institutions; Correctional Institutions; Employment Security; and Public Health and Welfare.

74th General Assembly – Education (chairman); Agriculture (v ice chairman); Appropriations; Banks and Banking and Financial Institutions; Correctional Institutions; Employment Security; and Public Health and Welfare.

75th General Assembly – Served as Senate Majority Floor Leader and a member of all committees.

76th General Assembly – Agriculture (chairman); Higher Education (vice chairman); Apportionment; Banks, Banking and Financial Institutions; Legislative Research; and Roads and Highways.

A. Basey Vanlandingham served the people of the 19th District (Adair, Boone, Howard, Macon and Randolph counties). He received his education in rural and public schools in Columbia, and from the University of Missouri. Senator Vanlandingham worked as a livestock and grain farmer in Howard and Boone counties. He was elected to the House of Representatives in 1956, and re-elected in 1958. During the 70th General Assembly, Senator Vanlandingham served as Speaker Pro Tem of the House. He was elected to the Senate in 1960, and re-elected in 1964 and 1968. In the 75th General Assembly, Senator Vanlandingham served as Majority Floor Leader. (Democrat)

Official Manual of the State of Missouri: 1971-1972