Wright Chalfant Morrow

Full Name: Wright Chalfant Morrow
Date of birth: October 12, 1858
Date of death: October 6, 1942

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information
Legislation

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
S	10	Jan 14, 1913 - Jan 9, 1917	33rd ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ 34th ⁽¹⁾	Democrat	Hillsboro / Hill	Senate President Pro Tempore (33rd)	Ellis, Hill, Johnson

(1) 34th Legislature - Roll Call of holdover Senators, 1/12/1915, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal.
(2) 33rd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 9/23/1914, 3rd C.S. Senate Journal.
(3) 33rd Legislature - List of Senators elected on November 5, 1912, oath of office administered, 1/14/1913, pp. 3-4. Senate Journal.

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Senate District 10
Jan 14, 1913 - Jan 9, 1917
Legislatures: 33rd ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ 34th ⁽¹⁾
Senate President Pro Tempore (33rd)
(33rd)
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Hillsboro / Hill
Counties in district: Ellis, Hill, Johnson

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Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

48th Legislature, R.S., HSR 106, 2/19/1943, pp. 509-511. Wright Chalfant Morrow. Resolutions - Memorial.
48th Legislature, R.S., SR 40, 2/22/1943, p. 258-260. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch and portrait, Wright Chalfant Morrow, Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1917-1921; Presiding Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1921-1939. Relatives: W.C. Morrow and Benjamin D. Tarlton - brothers-in-law. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004.
Honorary, February 1938, p. 37. Texas Bar Journal.
Memorial, November 1942, p. 435. Texas Bar Journal.

Other Resources

Wright C. Morrow, birth date 10/12/1858 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky; death date 10/6/1942 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas; retired jurist. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
Morrow (W.C.) papers, 1922-1942, bulk 1922: inventory. Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin, 2009.
W.C. Morrow Papers: An Inventory of W.C. Morrow Papers at the Texas State Archives, 1900-1919, bulk 1915-1916. Texas Archival Resources Online, 2010.

Photographs

Photograph. W.C. Morrow, 34th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. W.C. Morrow, 33rd Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. W.C. Morrow, Texas Jurists Collection

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

33rd session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board.
34th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, south wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

34th R.S. - 1915 Educational Affairs Insurance, Statistics and History Judiciary No. 1 (Chair) Labor Penitentiary Investigating Committee Privileges and Elections Public Roads, Bridges and Ferries Senatorial Districts Treasurer's and Comptroller's Departments
33rd R.S. - 1913 Attorney General's Department, Investigate Congressional Districts Constitutional Amendments Internal Improvements Judicial Districts Judiciary No. 1 (Chair) Labor Privileges and Elections Roads, Bridges and Ferries Senatorial Districts Towns and City Corporations Treasurer's and Comptroller's Departments

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