Background
Phelps, Richard K. was born on December 21, 1890 in in Vernon County, Missouri, United States. Son of Joseph Clark and Mary Kathleen (Cavan) Phelps.
Phelps, Richard K. was born on December 21, 1890 in in Vernon County, Missouri, United States. Son of Joseph Clark and Mary Kathleen (Cavan) Phelps.
Student, summers, Southwest State Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri, 1911-1916. Bachelor of Arts, University of Missouri, 1917.
High School principal, Mountain Grove, Missouri, 1912-1914, Neosho, Missouri, 1914-1917, Clinton, Missouri, 1917-1922. Professor, Business Law, State Teachers College, Springfield, Missouri, 1922-1923. Admitted to Missouri bar, 1924, began practice at Nevada, Missouri.
Prosecuting attorney, Vernon County, 1927-1929.
Member Missouri General Assembly, 1933-1934. Assistant United States Attorney for Western Missouri District, 1934-1941, first assistant, 1939-1943.
Acting United States Attorney, 1940-1941. Now member firm Gage, Hillix, Shrader & Phelps, Kansas City, Missouri.
Member Missouri General Assembly, 1933-1934. Member board of directors First National Television Corporation, Kansas City. Member American Bar Association, Kansas City and Missouri State bar associations, Lawyer’s Association of Kansas City, Missoury.
Club: University (Kansas City, Missoury).
Married Margaret Palmer, February 10, 1916. Children: Margaret Palmer (Mistress Stacy Allen Haines), Mary Janet (Mistress Albert Charles Bean), Richard Kimbrough, Junior.