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Selected Sources

Online Databases

Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com Operations Inc.
http://www.ancestry.com/

Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774–Present

Office of the Clerk, United States House of Representatives
Senate Historical Office, United States Senate
http://bioguide.congress.gov/biosearch/biosearch.asp

FamilySearch

Intellectual Reserve, Inc., a service provided by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
http://www.familysearch.org/

Find a Grave

Find A Grave, Inc.
http://www.findagrave.com

GenealogyMagazine.com

Datatrace Systems
http://www.genealogymagazine.com/

Handbook of Texas Online

Texas State Historical Association, distributed in partnership with the University of North Texas
http://www.tshaonline.org

HeritageQuest Online

ProQuest LLC
http://www.heritagequestonline.com/

Historical Election Results (1992–Current)

Texas Secretary of State
http://www.sos.state.tx.us/elections/historical/index.shtml

NewspaperArchive.com

Heritage Microfilm, Inc.
http://www.newspaperarchive.com/

Political Graveyard: A Database of Historical Cemeteries

Lawrence Kestenbaum
http://politicalgraveyard.com/

Texas State Cemetery

State Cemetery Committee
http://www.cemetery.state.tx.us/

TXGenWeb Project: Texas Genealogy and History

TXGenWeb Project, hosted by rootsweb, an ancestry.com community
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/

Printed Material

Call numbers indicate location within the collection of the Legislative Reference Library in Austin, Texas.

Apportionment Laws of Texas from 1836–1950

Legislative Reference Division, Texas State Library, 1950
L1937.8 AP61
http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/general/Apportionment_Laws_1836_1950.pdf

Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832–1845

House of Representatives, Texas Legislature, 1942
L1800.5 B52
http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/scanned/members/bios/Bio_Directory_Texas_Convs_Congresses_1832-1845.pdf

Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas

F.A. Battey & Company, 1889
976.4 B52 1889
http://www.rootsweb.com/~txfannin/s.html

Biographies of Legislators

Texas Legislaure, 1965–77, 1993–97
L1800.5 B523

Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923–1999

Nancy Baker Jones and Ruthe Winegarten
University of Texas Press, 2000
328.764 J722C

East Texas: Its History and Its Makers

Thomas Clarence Richardson and Dabney White
Lewis Historical Publishing Co., 1940
976.4 R396E 1940 V.1–4

Greenbackers, Knights of Labor, and Populists

Matthew Hild
University of Georgia Press, 2007
973.8 H543G 2007

History of Texas and Texans

Francis White Johnson
American Historical Society, 1914
976.4 J631H 1914 V.1–5

House Journal

House of Representatives, Texas Legislature, 1846–Present
Law-Tex

Members of the Texas Congress, 1836–1845; Members of the Texas Legislature, 1846–1992

Senate Engrossing and Enrolling, Texas Legislature, 1992
L1800.5 M512 1992-1, 1992-2

Members of the Texas Congress, 1836–1845; Members of the Texas Legislature, 1846–2004

Secretary of the Senate, Texas Legislature, 2005
L1800.5 M512 2004 V.1–2

Members of the Texas Legislature, 1846–1962

Texas Legislature, 1962
L1800.5 M512 1962

Members of the Texas Legislature, 1846–1980

Texas Legislative Council, Texas Legislature, 1980
L1800.5 M512 1980

Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature

Texas Legislative Council, Texas Legislature, 2006
L1800.5 OF3 2006
http://www.tlc.texas.gov/docs/PresidingOfficers.pdf

Roster . . . Legislature, State of Texas

Texas Legislative Service, 1947–Present
L1800.5 R739

Senate Biographies

Senate, Texas Legislature,1973
L1803.5 SE55 1973

Senate Journal

Senate, Texas Legislature, 1846–Present
Law-Tex

Senators of Texas

Senate, Texas Legislature, 1975
L1803.5 SE55 1975

Texas Official General Election Returns

Texas Secretary of State,1936–1996
324.764 T312

Tejano Struggle for Representation

John P. Schmal
Houston Institute for Culture, 2004
http://www.houstonculture.org/hispanic/tejano1.html

Texas Almanac and State Industrial Guide

A.H. Belo and Company; Texas State Historical Association; and other publishers; 1925–Present
317.64 T31A

Texas Bar Journal

State Bar of Texas, 1938–Present
Law Reviews

Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846–1992

House of Representatives, Texas Legislature, 1992
L1801.1 P589

Texas Legislative Handbook

Legislative Associates, Inc.; Texas State Directory Press, Inc.; and other publishers; 1979–Present
L1800.5 R735

Texas Legislative Manual

E.W. Swindells; Texas Legislative Council; and other publishers; 1879–Present
L1400.5 L524M

Texas Senate (see also Texas Senators)

Senate Media Services, Texas Legislature, 1979–1991, 2001
L1803.5 SE55

Texas Senate: Volume I, Republic to Civil War, 1836–1861

Patsy McDonald Spaw
Texas A&M University Press, 1990
L1803.1 SE54 V.1

Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861–1889

Patsy McDonald Spaw
Texas A&M University Press, 1999
L1803.1 SE54 V.2

Texas Senators (see also Texas Senate)

Senate Media Services, Texas Legislature, 1993–1999, 2003–2009
L1803.5 SE55

Texas State Directory

Texas Publishing Co., Inc.; Texas State Directory Press, Inc.; and other publishers; 1946–Present
920 T3D

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