Terms of Service

• Senate, 51st & 50th Legislatures
  1/14/1947 - 1/9/1951
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim R.S., elected 7/5/1949.
• Senate, 49th & 48th Legislatures
  1/12/1943 - 1/14/1947
  Democrat
  
• Senate, 47th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  8/4/1942 - 1/12/1943
  Democrat
  
• House, 47th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  1/14/1941 - 6/11/1942
  Democrat
  
• House, 46th Legislature
  1/10/1939 - 1/14/1941
  Democrat
  
• House, 45th Legislature
  1/12/1937 - 1/10/1939
  Democrat
  
• House, 44th Legislature
  1/8/1935 - 1/12/1937
  Democrat
  

(1) In Senate, George C. Morris, in special election 7/21/1942, sworn 8/24/1942, succeeded Claude Isbell, resigned 3/1/1942. In House, Edgar Hutchins, Sr., in special election 7/25/1942, succeeded George C. Morris, resigned 6/11/1942. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) G.C. Morris took oath of office to fill unexpired term of Hon. Claude Isbell on 8/4/1942. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 76th Legislature, R.S., HR 217. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. G.C. Morris, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Obituary, 8/18/1997. Austin American-Statesman .
• Memorial, June 1998, p. 603. Texas Bar Journal .
• Morris, G.C. Texas State Cemetery .

Committee Information

• 51st R.S. - 1949
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Education  
• Employees Assignment, Special  
• Finance  
• Game and Fish  
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Insurance (Chair) 
• Insurance Code  
• Interstate Cooperation  
• Judicial Districts (Vice Chair) 
• Labor  
• State Affairs  
• State Institutions and Departments  
• 50th R.S. - 1947
• Civil Jurisprudence (Vice Chair) 
• Commerce and Manufacturing  
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Federal Relations  
• Finance  
• Highways and Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• Insurance  
• Judicial Districts  
• Public Debts, Claims and Accounts  
• Rural Aid Equalization, Special Joint Legislative  
• State Affairs  
• 49th R.S. - 1945
• Aeronautics  
• Congressional Districts (Vice Chair) 
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Education  
• Enrolled Bills (Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Finance  
• Flag Presentation to Mexican Army Aviation Squadron, Special  
• Insurance  
• Internal Improvements  
• Penitentiaries  
• Towns and City Corporations  
• 48th R.S. - 1943
• Education  
• Federal Relations  
• Finance  
• Insurance (Vice Chair) 
• Internal Improvements  
• Investigating, Special  
• Labor  
• Military Affairs  
• Nominations of the Governor  
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Chair) 
• Public Debts, Claims and Accounts  
• Public Health  
• Public Lands and Land Office  
• Rules  
• Rural Aid, Special  
• State Penitentiaries  
• Textbooks and The University of Texas, Investigation, Special and Interim  
• Towns and City Corporations (Vice Chair) 
• 47th R.S. - 1941
• Appropriations  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Insurance  
• Liquor Traffic  
• Portrait of Honorable Sam Rayburn, Special  
• Rules (Chair) 
• Rural Aid Advisory, Special  
• 46th R.S. - 1939
• Appropriations  
• Atlanta, Texas Explosion, Special  
• Claims and Accounts  
• Common Carriers  
• Judicial Districts (Chair) 
• Local and Uncontested Bills, Special  
• Public Lands and Buildings Committee Minutes, Special  
• Representation Before the Legislature  
• Rural Aid Legislative Advisory  
• 45th R.S. - 1937
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Rural Aid to Schools, Special  
• Equalization Fund, Special  
• Highways and Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• Municipal and Private Corporations  
• Old Age Assistance, Special (Chair) 
• Penitentiaries  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• 44th R.S. - 1935
• Judicial Districts  
• Liquor Traffic  
• Penitentiaries  
• State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions