Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Virginia Elizabeth Duff

Full Name: Virginia Elizabeth Duff
Birth date: August 26, 1920
Death date: January 12, 2012

Photograph. Virginia Elizabeth Duff, Texas State Cemetery
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, Texas Yearbook, 56th Legislature
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Miss Virginia Duff, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Henry Fletcher, Virginia Duff and Ethelene Fletcher, Speaker's Day 2009. Photo courtesy of Brenda McKean, Donated Material

Photo and biographical sketch, pp. 125-129. First woman to succeed a woman from the same district (Rae Files Still) in the Texas House. Relatives: Hans Smith - grandfather, Virginia Duff - granddaughter; Bowd Farrar - uncle, Virginia Duff - niece. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999 2000.
"Remembering a Texas Trailblazer" lists some of Virginia Duff's major legislative initiatives, including bills requiring vehicles to stop while school buses load or unload, and creating the State School for Children in Denton. Mentions Duff's great uncle, Bowd Farrar. Dallas Morning News .
Notice of death, 1/13/2012. Speaker of the House .
Mentioned in Curtis Bishop, "Historic Names in the 54th: Descendants of many who made early Texas history carry on family traditions of service to their State as members of the 54th Legislature," Volume XVI, Number 1, June 1955, pp. 37, 38, 40. Texas Parade .
Duff, Virginia Elizabeth. Texas State Cemetery .