Senate Committees:

76th General Assembly – Elections, Military, Veteran and Navel Affairs (chairman); Agriculture; Criminal Jurisprudence; Local Government; Public Health, Welfare and Environment; State Departments; and Ways and Means.

77th General Assembly – Criminal Justus (chairman); Local Governments, Fees and Salaries (vice chairman); Agriculture, Conservation, Parks and Tourism; Bills Perfected and Ordered Printed and Bills Agreed to and Finally Passed; Gubernatorial Appointments; Legislative Research; Public Health, Welfare and Environment; Reorganization; and Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Miscellaneous Bills.

78th General Assembly - Criminal Jurisprudence and Elections (chairman); Constitutional Amendments and Reorganization (vice chairman); Local Government, Fees and Salaries; Agriculture, Conservation, Parks and Tourism; Gubernatorial Appointments; Legislative Research; Public Health, Welfare and Environment; and Rules, Joint Rules, Resolutions and Miscellaneous Bills.

Ike Skelton served the people of the 28th District (Carroll, Chariton, Lafayette, Linn, Livingston, Macon, Ray and Saline counties). Born in Lexington, Lafayette County, he received his education from Lexington High School; Wentworth Military Academy Junior College; University of Missouri, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1953 and a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1956; and the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Senator Skelton was an attorney. He served as a Presidential Elector from the Fourth Congressional District in 1964, prosecuting attorney of Lafayette County from 1957-1960, special assistant attorney general from 1961-1963. In 1970, Senator Skelton was elected to the Senate and re-elected in 1974. (Democrat)

Official Manual of the State of Missouri: 1975-1976