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William Edgar Thomason Full Name: William Edgar Thomason Date of birth: July 23, 1872 Date of death: April 13, 1938 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Legislation Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 3 Jan 8, 1929 - Jan 10, 1933 42nd (1) (2)   41st (3)   42nd (1) (2)   Democrat Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches Senate President Pro Tempore (42nd)   Angelina, Cherokee, Jasper, Nacogdoches, Newton, Sabine, San Augustine, Tyler H 7 Jan 11, 1921 - Jan 9, 1923 37th   Democrat Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches   Nacogdoches H 7 Jan 14, 1919 - Jan 11, 1921 36th   Democrat Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches   Nacogdoches H 7 Jan 9, 1917 - Jan 14, 1919 35th   Democrat Nacogdoches / Nacogdoches   Nacogdoches (1) 42nd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, 2nd C.S., elected 9/8/1931. Senate Journal. (2) 42nd Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/13/1931, p. 1. Senate Journal. (3) 41st Legislature - Certificate of New Senators, oath of office administered, 1/8/1929, p. 1. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches Biography, 1/25/1929, p. 7. Houston Post-Dispatch. Military Service Notes Corporal, 1st Texas Cavalry. Military grave marker, William E. Thomason, death date 4/13/1938, burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches, Nacogdoches County. Find a Grave. Thomason, William Edgar. United States Volunteers, Spanish-American War Call Number: 401-252. Troop A, 1st Texas Volunteer Cavalry, postoffice address Nacogdoches, Texas. Texas Adjutant General Service Records 1836-1935. Other Resources Obituary, W. Edgar Thomason, 4/15/1938. Burial in Oak Grove Cemetery, Nacogdoches. Dallas Morning News. W.E. Thomason, born 7/23/1871 in Nacogdoches, married Julia Hale. Biographical sketch and photo, "Texas and Her Legislature (Legislative Section)," Members of Texas House of Representatives, 35th Legislature, 2/28/1917, p. 14. Fort Worth Record. William E. Thomason. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. Photographs Photograph. W.E. Thomason, 42nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. W.E. Thomason, 41st Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. W.E. Thomason, 37th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. W.E. Thomason, 36th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. W.E. Thomason, 35th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 41st session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 42nd session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 35th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 36th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 37th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 42nd R.S. - 1931 Agricultural Affairs   Criminal Jurisprudence   Educational Affairs   Finance   Labor   Military Affairs   Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair)  Public Printing   State Affairs   State Institutions and Departments   Stock and Stock Raising   Towns and City Corporations (Vice Chair)  41st R.S. - 1929 Banking   Commerce and Manufacture   Criminal Jurisprudence   Educational Affairs   Finance   Labor   Meridian College   Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair)  Public Printing (Vice Chair)  State Institutions and Departments   40th R.S. - 1927 Indian Committee   37th R.S. - 1921 Appropriations   Education (Chair)  Game and Fisheries   Military Affairs   Privileges, Suffrage and Elections   36th R.S. - 1919 Education   Examination of Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts (Vice Chair)  Military Affairs (Chair)  Parole Law Revision   Public Health   35th R.S. - 1917 Agriculture   Appropriations   Conflicting Extension Work   Donation of John Tarleton College to the State, Investigate   Education (Chair)  Reforms in Criminal Procedure   Roads, Bridges and Ferries   State Asylums   Tuberculosis Sanatorium

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