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Robert Wilburn Calvert

R.W. Calvert
Full Name: Robert Wilburn Calvert
Birth date: February 22, 1905
Death date: October 6, 1994

Terms of Service

  • House, 45th Legislature
    1/12/1937 - 1/10/1939
    Democrat
    Speaker
  • House, 44th Legislature
    1/8/1935 - 1/12/1937
    Democrat
  • House, 43rd (1) Legislature
    1/10/1933 - 1/8/1935
    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 .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Mentioned in "Speaker's Office Now a Prize Plum," 9/15/1980. Dallas Morning News .
  • Memoirs in LRL collection, 923.4 C139. Here Comes the Judge: From State Home to State House: Memoirs 1977.
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, Robert Wilburn Calvert, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1950-1961; Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1961-1972. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
  • 54th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Robert W. Calvert. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
  • Memorial, December 1994, p. 1244. Texas Bar Journal .
  • Calvert, Robert Wilburn. Texas State Cemetery .
  • Occupational and biographical information - 45th Legislature, Chapter 1, "The Big Job," pp. 1-17. The Legislature and the Texas People 1937.
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