Ed Emery is a husband of 27 years and the father of four (a daughter and three sons) and lives 18 miles northeast of the town of Lamar in southwestern Missouri. Ed grew up in Vernon County, Missouri where he worked in his family’s feed and grain business until leaving home for college. He graduated from Nevada High School, Nevada, Missouri.

Ed earned an engineering degree in 1972 from the University of Missouri at Rolla and spent the next twenty-two years with a major U.S. oil company in management, staff, and technical roles. In 1994, he, his wife Rebecca, and their four children moved back to Southwest Missouri and now live on a small farm in rural Barton County. He is a member of Liberty Baptist Church and the Society of Petroleum Engineers.

Ed is self-employed as a business consultant working with area businesses and institutions through his company, Character Returns! He is committed to serving businesses, schools, and communities in every way possible to make families and communities successful by putting character first.

Briefly, it is Ed Emery’s goal to work to reduce taxes and the size of government, to reduce the burden of government regulation in our lives, to protect the sanctity of human life, to successfully educate every child, and to return Godly values to our culture. State government is frequently out of touch with the conservative principles of Southwest Missouri. Our communities grow and flourish when the farmer and small businessperson is free to operate without unreasonable restrictions. Ed will serve the citizens of District 126 while working for the good of all Missouri residents.