Terms of Service

• House, 51st Legislature
  1/11/1949 - 1/9/1951
  Democrat
  Speaker
• 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

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 65th Legislature, R.S., HSR 83, Speaker's Day tribute. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 66th Legislature, R.S., HR 126, Speaker's Day tribute. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 67th Legislature, R.S., HR 282, Speaker's Day tribute. 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 .
• 51st Legislature, 1st C.S., HSR 58, invitation to address the House. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 51st Legislature, R.S., HSR 119. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 51st Legislature, R.S., HSR 198. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 71st Legislature, R.S., HR 646. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. Durwood Manford, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
• Photograph. Durwood Manford, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Durwood Manford, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Durwood Manford, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Durwood Manford, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Durwood Manford, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Photograph, Gilmer-Aikin Bills: a Study in the Legislative Process 1950.
• Describes Speaker Manford's involvement in the political and legislative processes through which the Gilmer-Aikins bills became law. Gilmer-Aikin Bills: a Study in the Legislative Process 1950.
• 60th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Durwood Manford. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
• Memorial, December 1988, p. 1177. Texas Bar Journal .
• Manford, Jr., Thomas Durwood. Texas State Cemetery .

Committee Information

• 51st R.S. - 1949
• Interstate Cooperation (Vice Chair) 
• 50th R.S. - 1947
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Highways and Roads  
• Judiciary  
• Labor (Chair) 
• Municipal and Private Corporations  
• 49th R.S. - 1945
• Appropriations (Vice Chair) 
• Banks and Banking  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Examination of Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts  
• Highways and Roads (Chair) 
• Local and Uncontested Bills  
• Portraits of Lieutenant Paul Eubanks and Lieutenant Duncan Hughes, Special  
• 48th R.S. - 1943
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Game and Fisheries  
• Highways and Roads  
• Municipal and Private Corporations  
• State Affairs (Chair) 
• 47th R.S. - 1941
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Judicial Districts  
• Live Stock and Stock Raising  
• Revenue and Taxation