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Joseph Sydney Wheless Full Name: Joseph Sydney Wheless Other surnames: Wheeless Date of birth: May 3, 1862 Date of death: January 3, 1939 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 39 Jan 10, 1899 - Jan 8, 1901 26th   Democrat Galveston / Galveston   Galveston   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries J.S. Wheless. House Journal. 46th Legislature, R.S., HSR 18, 1/12/1939, p. 69. Joseph Sidney Wheeless. Resolutions - Memorial. Biographical Sketches Obituary and photo, Joseph Sidney Wheless, "Death Takes Former Mayor of Kerrville: City Grieved at Passing of Judge J. Sidney Wheless," 1/5/1939, pp. 1, 10. "They moved immediately to Galveston where his brilliant legal mind, his engaging personality, and his qualities of leadership soon enabled him to be elected to the Texas Legislature from that district." "State Legislature Honors Memory of Judge J.S. Wheless," 2/9/1939, pp. 1, 10. Kerrville Mountain Sun. Other Resources Joseph Sydney Wheless, birth date 5/5/1862, death date 1/3/1939 in Kerrville, Kerr County, attorney-at-law, parents Joseph C. Wheless and Matilda Ayres. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. Joseph Sydney Wheless, birth date 5/3/1862, death date 1/3/1939, burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery, Kerrville, Kerr County. Find a Grave. J.S. Wheless. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992, 1992. Photographs Photograph. J.S. Wheless, 26th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 26th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 26th R.S. - 1899 Commerce and Manufactures   Finance   Insurance, Statistics, and History   Judiciary No. 1   Public Lands and Land Office   Towns and City Corporations

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