O.L. Sims

Orland LeCompte Sims

Full Name: Orland LeCompte Sims
Date of birth: September 20, 1881
Date of death: June 8, 1973

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 112 Jan 11, 1921 - Jan 9, 1923 37th   Democrat Paint Rock / Concho   Coleman, Concho

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House District 112
Jan 11, 1921 - Jan 9, 1923
Legislatures: 37th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Paint Rock / Concho
Counties in district: Coleman, Concho

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Biographical Sketches

Other Resources

  • Book in LRL collection, 917.647036 SI614C 1970. A personal history of West Texas from the close of the frontier to the present. Cowpokes, Nesters, & So forth [First edition], 1970.
  • Orland LeCompte Sims, birth date 9/20/1881 in Missouri; death date 6/8/1973 in San Angelo, Tom Green County; rancher, livestock. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
  • Orland L. Sims (1881-1973), burial in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, Tom Green County. Includes photos from the book Cowpokes, Nesters, & So Forth by Judge Orland L. Sims. Find a Grave.
  • Book in LRL collection, 923.4 SI58 1967. Includes material on Wild Bill Hickok, Captain Bill McDonald, Wyatt Earp, Clay Allison, Ben Kilpatrick, Black Jack Ketchum, the Wild Bunch, Will Carver, Butch Cassidy, Harvey Logan, and Harry Longabaugh. Gun-Toters I Have Known, 1967.
  • Obituary and photo, "Services Monday for Judge Sims," 6/9/1973, p. 2. San Angelo Standard-Times.

Photographs

  • Photograph. O.L. Sims, 37th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

Committee Information top

37th R.S. - 1921
Conservation and Reclamation  
Labor  
Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
Stock and Stock Raising (Vice Chair) 

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