David W. Stark (c. 1879 - c. 1941) was a member of the Missouri Legislature in the early 20th century. He was a farmer in West Line, Missouri. [1] [2] [3]
David W. Stark (c. 1879 - c. 1941) was a member of the Missouri Legislature in the early 20th century. He was a farmer in West Line, Missouri. [1] [2] [3]
In November 1910, Stark was elected as a Democrat to the Cass County seat in the Missouri House of Representatives. [4]
On Monday, May 20, 1911, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat printed a story headed "Drunken Democrats Turn Assembly Into a Sunday Debauch; Liquor-Fired Mob Breaks Up Senate Session; Carouse Is in Celebration of Game Warden." [5] In it, the Globe said: [6]
The Sunday session of the House terminated late in the afternoon in a fist fight and near riot. Kirby J. Smith of Ava, Missouri, a clerk in the office of Game Commissioner Tolerton . . . was assaulted upon the floor of the House by Representative David W. Stark of Cass County.
The St. Joseph News-Press reported that Stark "struck at" Smith and then "grasped him by the throat and pushed him, scrambling and fighting, to the rear of the hall. . . At last someone tripped Stark, and the two sprawled on the floor, and the other representatives" pulled Stark off. [7]
Stark filed a suit against the Globe the next month, alleging libel and asking for $150,000 in damages. [8] The newspaper paid him $2,500 to withdraw the suit. [9]
Stark served two terms in Missouri's House of Representatives, and in 1916, he was elected to its Senate. He himself voted in Freeman, Missouri. [1] [10]
Stark's family lived in Cass County, Missouri, since the early 1850s. [11]
A marriage license was issued to Stark and Martha Ingels of Jackson County on May 16, 1910. [12] In 1917, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat reported that Stark was one of nine senators who "have their wives on the pay roll of the General Assembly as clerks or stenographers at $3.50 a day." [13]
About 1921 or 1922, Stark became "mentally unbalanced" and was admitted as a private patient at the Nevada Hospital for the Insane. In 1928, his private funds having been exhausted, his expenses at the hospital were taken over by Cass County. [3] [11]
In 1941, the Missouri Senate held a memorial service for eight former senators, including Stark, who had died "since the last session of the General Assembly." [14]
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