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Thomas Bell Love Full Name: Thomas Bell Love Date of birth: June 23, 1870 Date of death: September 17, 1948 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 11 Jan 11, 1927 - Jan 13, 1931 41st (1) (2)   40th (3) (4)   Democrat Lancaster / Dallas   Dallas H 37 Jan 8, 1907 - Aug 31, 1907 30th (5) (6) (7) (8)   Democrat Lancaster / Dallas Speaker   Dallas H 37 Jan 10, 1905 - Jan 8, 1907 29th   Democrat Dallas / Dallas   Dallas H 37 Jan 13, 1903 - Jan 10, 1905 28th   Democrat Dallas / Dallas   Dallas (1) "Fifteen State Senators Must Seek Re-Election in Summer", 1/3/1930, p. 2. Big Spring Daily Herald. (2) 41st Legislature - 1/8/1929, p. 1, listed in "Roll Call of Holdover Senators." Senate Journal. (3) 40th and 41st Legislature - Postoffice Lancaster, Dallas County. Texas Legislative Manual. (4) 40th Legislature - 1/11/1927, p. 1, listed in "Certificate of New Senators" and "Roll Call of New Senators." Senate Journal. (5) Listed as Thomas B. Love of Dallas (re-election). "Names on the Ballot," 6/5/1906, p. 3. Galveston Daily News. (6) Home address, Lancaster; home county, Dallas. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. (7) Postoffice, Dallas. Texas Legislative Manual. (8) Thomas B. Love resigned 8/31/1907. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Selected Newspaper articles Biographical Sketches LOVE, THOMAS BELL (1870-1948). Handbook of Texas Online. 39th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Thomas Bell Love. Photo and biographical sketch. "He served in the 28th through the 30th legislatures, becoming speaker in 1907 in his third term while a resident of Lancaster." Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016. Other Resources Vol. III. Chapter XXXIII, "Some East Texas Banking History," by Thomas B. Love, former State Banking Commissioner and former State Senator, pp. 1337-1384. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers, 1940. Portrait and biographical information, pp. 170-172, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928, 1984. Love, Thomas B. (1870-1948) — of Dallas, Dallas County. Political Graveyard: a Database of Historic Cemeteries. Brief vignettes on members of the 30th Legislature, "Kodaks by the Chaplain," Houston Post, 5/12/1907, p. 6, col. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). Memorial, January 1949, p. 46. Texas Bar Journal. Photographs Photograph. Thomas B. Love, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006 Photograph. Thomas B. Love, 28th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Thomas B. Love, 29th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Thomas B. Love, 30th Legislature, Speakers of the Texas House of Representatives Photograph. Thomas B. Love, 30th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Thomas B. Love, 40th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Thomas B. Love, 41st Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 40th session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, west wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 41st session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 28th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 29th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 30th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 41st R.S. - 1929 Civil Jurisprudence   Educational Affairs   Federal Relations (Chair)  Internal Improvements (Chair)  Military Affairs (Vice Chair)  Nominations By Governor   Privileges and Elections   Public Buildings and Grounds   Representative Districts   Senatorial Districts   State Institutions and Departments   40th R.S. - 1927 Civil Jurisprudence   Constitutional Amendments, Investigate Status of   Educational Affairs   Highways and Motor Traffic   Internal Improvements (Chair)  Military Affairs   Nominations by Governor   Privileges and Elections   Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Printing (Vice Chair)  State Institutions and Departments   29th R.S. - 1905 Judiciary   Municipal Corporations   Private Corporations (Chair)  Privileges, Suffrage and Elections   Revenue and Taxation   28th R.S. - 1903 Constitutional Amendments   Federal Relations   Insurance, Statistics and History   Internal Improvements   Judiciary No. 1   Penitentiaries   Privileges, Suffrage and Elections

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