Senate Committees:

82nd General Assembly – Corrections (chairman); Labor and Management Relations (chairman); Legislative Research (vice chairman, statutory); Criminal Jurisprudence; Interstate Cooperation (statutory).

83rd General Assembly – Correctional Institutions and Problems (chairman); Labor and Industrial Relations (chairman); Interstate Cooperation (vice chairman); Legislative Research (vice chairman, statutory); Atomic Energy (statutory); Criminal Jurisprudence; Education; Minority Business Development (statutory).

84th General Assembly – Labor and Industrial Relations (chairman); Interstate Cooperation (vice chairman); Budget Control; Criminal Jurisprudence; Education; State Public Employees’ Deferred Compensation Commission; Commission on Minority Business Development; State’s Distressed Industry Taskforce.

85th General Assembly – Labor and Industrial Relations (chairman); Legislative Research (vice chairman, statutory); Aging, Mental Health and Elderly Affairs; Appropriations; Atomic Energy (statutory); Conservation, Parks and Tourism; Correctional Institutions and Problems (statutory); Criminal Jurisprudence; Education; Interstate Cooperation (statutory). 

John F. Bass served the people of the 4th District (part of St. Louis City). Born in St. Louis, he graduated from Lincoln University with a Bachelor of Science degree in business administration; and Washington University with a master’s degree in education and school administration. Senator Bass served in the U.S. Navy; and worked as an educator, school administrator and consultant. He was elected to the Senate in 1981 in a special election and served as Majority Caucus Secretary. (Democrat)

Official Manual of the State of Missouri: 1991-1992