Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Reuben E. Senterfitt

Full Name: Reuben E. Senterfitt
Birth date: June 18, 1917
Death date: November 20, 2013

Terms of Service

House, 53rd Legislature
1/13/1953 - 1/11/1955
Democrat
Speaker
House, 52nd Legislature
1/9/1951 - 1/13/1953
Democrat
Speaker
House, 51st Legislature
1/11/1949 - 1/9/1951
Democrat
House, 50th Legislature
1/14/1947 - 1/11/1949
Democrat
House, 49th Legislature
1/9/1945 - 1/14/1947
Democrat
House, 48th Legislature
1/12/1943 - 1/9/1945
Democrat
House, 47th Legislature
1/14/1941 - 1/12/1943
Democrat

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

54th Legislature, R.S., HSR 261, extending congratulations of members of 54th Legislature to members who have ten years of service in the House. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
65th Legislature, R.S., HSR 84. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
66th Legislature, R.S., HR 120. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
67th Legislature, R.S., HR 283. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
67th Legislature, R.S., HR 295, honoring former speakers and certain members on the occasion of Speaker's Day. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
80th Legislature, R.S., HCR 178. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
United States Navy, Lieutenant Junior Grade, World War II. "Elected to the Texas Legislature at the age of 23, Mr. Senterfitt served continuously for seven terms, from 1941 to 1955; during that time he also served his country in the United States Navy, seeing duty in the South Pacific and rising from the rank of ensign to lieutenant junior grade; in 1945, he traveled halfway around the world to be present at the opening of the 49th Regular Session, . . ." 80th Legislature, R.S., HCR 178. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .

Photographs

Photograph. Reuben Senterfitt, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. R.E. Senterfitt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Reuben Senterfitt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

United States Navy, Lieutenant (j.g.). Mentioned "among other legislators who are in the reserve" in "Call to Armed Services Faces Dozen in Texas Legislature," 1/14/1951. Dallas Morning News .
Texas House Speakers Oral History Project - Reuben Senterfitt. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin 2006.
United States Navy, Lieutenant Junior Grade, World War II. Military grave marker, Reuben E. Senterfitt, birth date 6/18/1917, death date 11/20/1913, burial in San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba County. Includes photograph, obituary. Find a Grave .
United States Navy, World War II. "Rep. Reuben Senterfitt of San Saba, who was put on inactive duty by the Navy in 1945 and flew 8,000 miles from the Philippines to attend the session that year." Mentioned in "Field Artilleryman Flies Home to Take Post in Texas Legislature," 1/11/1951, profiling J.O. Duncan, Jr. Gilmer Mirror .
61st Speaker of the House of Representatives: Reuben Senterfitt. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News .
Remarks made by Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, on April 29, 1953, before voting No on Senate Bill 24. Speaker of the House .
Address of Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, made before the State Convention of the Texas Water Conservation Association in Dallas, Texas, Monday, October 12, 1953. Speaker of the House .
Speech made by Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, before State Convention of Texas Federation of Women's Clubs in Austin, Texas, on November 12, 1953. Speaker of the House .
The 53d Legislature in Retrospect, by Hon. Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Texas Trade Association Executives Convention in Galveston, June 19, 1953 (compliments of Walter E. Long). Speaker of the House .
Memorial, September 2014, p. 747. Texas Bar Journal .