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H.T. Brown

Henry Turner Brown

Full Name: Henry Turner Brown
Date of birth: August 17, 1885
Date of death: April 3, 1958

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 31 Jan 10, 1939 - Jan 14, 1941 46th   Democrat Jacksonville / Cherokee   Cherokee
H 31 Jan 12, 1937 - Jan 10, 1939 45th   Democrat Jacksonville / Cherokee   Cherokee
H 31 Jan 11, 1927 - Jan 8, 1929 40th   Democrat Jacksonville / Cherokee   Cherokee
H 31 Jan 13, 1925 - Jan 11, 1927 39th   Democrat Jacksonville / Cherokee   Cherokee

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
46th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Jacksonville / Cherokee
Counties in district:
Cherokee

Legislatures:
45th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Jacksonville / Cherokee
Counties in district:
Cherokee

Legislatures:
40th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Jacksonville / Cherokee
Counties in district:
Cherokee

Legislatures:
39th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Jacksonville / Cherokee
Counties in district:
Cherokee

Biographical Information

  • Memorial, June 1958, p. 436. Judge Henry Turner Brown. Texas Bar Journal.
  • Biographical sketch, Henry T. Brown, Volume V, pp. 227-228. Born 8/17/1887 in Crockett, Houston County. Author of Rural High School Law and Text Book Law. Texas Under Many Flags, 1930.

  • Henry Turner Brown, birth date 8/17/1885 in Texas; death date 4/3/1958 in Jacksonville, Cherokee County; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
  • Henry Turner Brown (1885-1958), burial in Resthaven Cemetery, Jacksonville, Cherokee County. Includes historical marker photo. Find a Grave.
  • H.T. Brown mentioned, pp. 41, 50-51, and 116, "Judge H.T. Brown, also a former state representative from the county, presided" at the opening of Cherokee County's fourth courthouse; included in "teachers who followed E.S. Jones as head of the Dialville School"; "building of the new brick schoolhouse in 1913 during the administration of H.T. Brown as the Superintendent of the Dialville School"; and State Legislators from Cherokee County, 39th-40th and 45th-46th Legislatures. Cherokee County Historical Commission (Tex.). Cherokee County History, copyright 1986, second printing 2001, crediting Cherokee County Historical Commission. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
  • Obituary and photo, "Judge H.T. Brown, Long-Time Public Official in County, Buried Last Friday," The Rusk Cherokeean, 4/10/1958, pp. 1, 12, crediting Singletary Memorial Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
  • Historical marker, Judge H.T. Brown, Resthaven Cemetery, Jacksonville, Cherokee County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission).

  • Photograph. H.T. Brown, 46th Legislature, State Preservation Board
  • Photograph. H.T. Brown, 45th Legislature, State Preservation Board
  • Photograph. H.T. Brown, 40th Legislature, State Preservation Board
  • Photograph. H.T. Brown, 39th Legislature, State Preservation Board

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