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Jos F. Greathouse

Joseph Felix Greathouse

Full Name: Joseph Felix "Joe" Greathouse
Date of birth: November 4, 1888
Date of death: January 2, 1968

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 101-3 Jan 8, 1935 - Jan 12, 1937 44th   Democrat Fort Worth / Tarrant   Tarrant
H 101-3 Jan 10, 1933 - Jan 8, 1935 43rd (1)   Democrat Fort Worth / Tarrant   Tarrant
H 101-3 Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 10, 1933 42nd   Democrat Fort Worth / Tarrant   Tarrant

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Lawyer. Questionnaire on name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, and relationship to persons in state or county government. 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal. ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
44th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Fort Worth / Tarrant
Counties in district:
Tarrant

Legislatures:
43rd (1)  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Fort Worth / Tarrant
Counties in district:
Tarrant

Legislatures:
42nd  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Fort Worth / Tarrant
Counties in district:
Tarrant

Terms of service notes


(1) Lawyer. Questionnaire on name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, and relationship to persons in state or county government. 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal. ↩

Biographical Information

  • Memorial, May 1968, p. 424. Texas Bar Journal.

  • 1st Lieutenant, Infantry. Joseph Felix Greathouse, residence in Fort Worth, birth date 11/4/1888, enlistment date 8/15/1917, discharge date 3/1/1919, death date 1/2/1968. FamilySearch United States Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, 1985.
  • Joseph Felix Greathouse, birth date 11/4/1888 in Augusta, Kentucky; home address in Riverside, Illinois; attorney at law, now at R.O.T.C.; draft registration 6/5/1917 in Riverside, Illinois. FamilySearch United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.
  • United States Army, Captain, World War I. "He want [sic] to Fort Worth for Army training during World War I and returned after the war to practice law . . . A captain during World War I, Mr. Greathouse was wounded and decorated for combat in France." Memorial, May 1968, p. 424. Texas Bar Journal.

  • Mentioned in "Capital Chatter," 2/19/1935, p. 2 Denton Record-Chronicle.
  • Joseph Felix Greathouse, birth date 11/4/1888 in Lexington, Kentucky; death date 1/2/1968 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas; attorney at law; veteran of World War I. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
  • Joseph Felix Greathouse (1888-1968), Greenwood Memorial Park and Mausoleum, Fort Worth, Tarrant County. Find a Grave.
  • Obituary and photo, Joseph F. Greathouse, "Ex-Legislator Dies at 79 in Hospital," 1/2/1968, p. 3. "Greathouse, an attorney, was the author of the 1933 moratorium bill which called an 18-month halt in land foreclosures during the Depression and was joint author of the bill exempting homesteads from state taxes on valuations up to $3,000." Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

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