C.B. Metcalfe

Charles B. Metcalfe

Full Name: Charles B. Metcalfe
Date of birth: May 18, 1856
Date of death: December 11, 1941

Terms of Service top

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 113 Jan 9, 1917 - Jan 14, 1919 35th   Democrat San Angelo / Tom Green   Irion, Schleicher, Sterling, Tom Green
H 113 Jan 12, 1915 - Jan 9, 1917 34th   Democrat San Angelo / Tom Green   Irion, Schleicher, Sterling, Tom Green

Terms of Service top

House District 113
Jan 9, 1917 - Jan 14, 1919
Legislatures: 35th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: San Angelo / Tom Green
Counties in district: Irion, Schleicher, Sterling, Tom Green
House District 113
Jan 12, 1915 - Jan 9, 1917
Legislatures: 34th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: San Angelo / Tom Green
Counties in district: Irion, Schleicher, Sterling, Tom Green

Biographical Information top

Resolutions and Journal entries

  • 48th Legislature, HCR 150. Relatives: Charles Metcalfe - father; Penrose Metcalfe - son. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

Other Resources

  • Charles B. Metcalfe, birth date 5/18/1856 in Tennessee; death date 12/11/1941 in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas; ranchman. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
  • Charles B. Metcalfe, birth date 5/18/1856, death date 12/11/1941, burial in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, Tom Green County. Includes portrait; historical marker photo; profile from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5/21/1936; and obituaries in the Austin American, 12/14/1941; Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12/12/1941; and Dallas Morning News, 12/12/1941. Find a Grave.
  • Author of HB 105, 35th 4th Called Session, first women's suffrage bill to pass in the Texas Legislature (1918). Description of bill signing, "This law gave women the right to vote at all primary elections and in all nominating conventions. . .Since Texas had two U.S. Senators and 18 Representatives it gave the women votes for more members of Congress than in any other state possessed, and consequently for more presidential electors." Volume VI, Chapter XLII, Texas, p. 637. The History of Woman Suffrage, 1922.
  • Obituary and photo, "Charles B. Metcalfe Services Set Here at 3:30 P.M. Today," 12/12/1941, pp. 1, 20. Includes photo, "Hosts to Notables in 1940," of Senator Charles B. Metcalfe and Mrs. Metcalfe with Representative Dorsey B. Hardeman and Governor and Mrs. W. Lee O'Daniel. San Angelo Standard-Times.
  • Historical marker, Charles B. Metcalfe, San Angelo, Tom Green County. "Sponsor of 1918 measure to give Texas women right to vote." Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission).
  • Occupation and religious affiliation, 34th Legislature. "Occupations of Members of Legislative House," 3/14/1915, p. 4. Galveston Daily News.

Photographs

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

Committee Information top

35th R.S. - 1917
Agriculture (Vice Chair) 
Counties  
Game and Fisheries  
Irrigation  
Judiciary  
Penitentiary Claims Auditing  
Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair) 
Public Lands and Land Office  
Stock and Stock Raising  
34th R.S. - 1915
Agriculture (Vice Chair) 
Constitutional Amendments  
Federal Relations  
Irrigation (Vice Chair) 
Liquor Traffic  
Public Debt  
Stock and Stock Raising  

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