Terms of Service

• Senate, 47th ^{(2) (3) (7)} & 46th ⁽⁶⁾ Legislatures
  1/10/1939 - 1/12/1943
  Democrat
  Dean of the Senate,
• Senate, 45th ⁽⁵⁾ & 44th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
  1/8/1935 - 1/10/1939
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, 1st C.S., elected 5/27/1937.
• House, 43rd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/10/1933 - 1/8/1935
  Democrat
  
• House, 42nd Legislature
  1/13/1931 - 1/10/1933
  Democrat
  
• House, 41st Legislature
  1/8/1929 - 1/13/1931
  Democrat
  
• House, 40th Legislature
  1/11/1927 - 1/8/1929
  Democrat
  

(1) Name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, relationship to persons in state or county government. Resolution, 9/18/1933, pp. 45-48, and Questionnaire Authorized and Directed by Resolution Adopted by the House, 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal .
(2) Journal does not indicate who assumed title of Dean of the Senate during the regular session. However, Olan Van Zandt served as chair of the senate caucus, an honor traditionally bestowed upon the dean, pp. 9-11. Senate Journal .
(3) Caucus report for 47th Legislature, 1st called session signed, Olan R. Van Zandt, Dean of the Senate, p. 10, Senate Journal .
(4) 44th Legislature - Roll Call of New Senators and Certificate of New Senators, oath of office administered, 1/8/1935, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(5) 45th Legislature - Roll Call of Senators, holdover Senators "who were Members of the Forty-fourth Legislature and whose terms of office continue for the duration of the Forty-fifth Legislature," 1/12/1937, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(6) 46th Legislature - Roll Call of Senators-Elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1939, p. 8. Senate Journal .
(7) Lists Cotten, Hill, Weaver Moore, Shivers, Sulak, and Van Zandt as having most seniority, 47th Legislature. Texas Senate, Secretary of the Senate - Memo, January 8, 2002, 'Deans of the Texas Senate' 2002.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Olan R. Van Zandt, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Olan R. Van Zandt, birth date 3/19/1890, death date 12/10/1985, burial in Tioga Cemetery, Tioga, Grayson County. Includes draft card, photograph of "Tioga United Method Church," historical marker. Find a Grave .
• "Three Blind Lawmakers in Texas Legislature," Mt. Pleasant Daily Times, 6/23/1933, p. 3, crediting Mount Pleasant Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• In Memoriam, Olan Rogers Van Zandt. Texas Commission for the Blind. Texas Commission for the Blind Report, Volume 3, Number 1, March 1986, back cover, crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
• Memorial, July 1986, p. 800. Texas Bar Journal .

Committee Information

• 47th R.S. - 1941
• Agriculture  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Congressional Districts (Vice Chair) 
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Education  
• Election Law Violations, Investigation, Special  
• Insurance (Chair) 
• Local and Uncontested Bills, Special  
• Nominations of Governor  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Representative Districts  
• Rules  
• Rural Aid Advisory, Special  
• State Affairs  
• 46th R.S. - 1939
• Agriculture  
• Civil Jurisprudence (Chair) 
• Congressional Districts  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Education  
• Nominations of Governor  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Representative Districts  
• Rules (Vice Chair) 
• State Affairs  
• Towns and City Corporations  
• 45th R.S. - 1937
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Compact with Oklahoma Relative to Use of Red River by Texas Citizens, Special  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Educational Affairs  
• Emergency Supplemental Appropriations for Rural Aid to Schools, Special  
• Finance  
• Insurance  
• Judicial Districts  
• Mining, Irrigation and Drainage  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Representative Districts (Chair) 
• State Affairs  
• Towns and City Corporations (Vice Chair) 
• 44th R.S. - 1935
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Congressional Districts  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Education  
• Engrossed Bills  
• Finance  
• Judicial Districts (Vice Chair) 
• Mining, Irrigation and Drainage  
• Privileges and Elections (Chair) 
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Texas Independence Day, Special  
• 43rd R.S. - 1933
• Alleged Assault on Representative Burns, Investigate, Special  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Judicial Districts  
• Judiciary  
• Labor  
• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Claims and Accounts  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Judicial Districts (Chair) 
• Judicial Redistricting Committee (Chair) 
• Judiciary  
• State Affairs  
• 41st R.S. - 1929
• Claims and Accounts  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Judiciary  
• State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions  
• 40th R.S. - 1927
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Federal Relations  
• Judiciary  
• Privileges, Suffrage and Elections