Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James Emery Neal

Full Name: James Emery "Jim" Neal
Birth date: September 4, 1875
Death date: March 11, 1951

Terms of Service

Senate, 45th ⁽²⁾ & 44th ⁽¹⁾ Legislatures
1/8/1935 - 1/10/1939
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 1st C.S., elected 10/15/1935.

(1) 44th Legislature - Roll Call of New Senators and Certificate of New Senators, oath of office administered, 1/8/1935, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(2) 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 .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Jim Neal, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Jim Neal, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

James Emery Neal, birth date 9/4/1875, death date 3/11/1951 in Dallas, residence in Mirando City, Webb County, ranchman. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Obituary, "'Honest Jim' Neal, Who Defeated Archie Parr in Senate Race, Buried; Border Figure Gone," 3/15/1951, p. 9. Death date Sunday 3/11/1951, in Dallas. McAllen Monitor .
Mentioned in preview of 44th Legislature and discussion of legislative turnover, "Texas House Gets 80 New Members," 10/15/1934, p. 14. San Antonio Express .
45th Legislature (1937) - Jim Neal, postoffice Mirando City, Webb County, nativity Texas, age 60, rancher, Democrat, member of former legislatures: 44th Senate. Texas Legislative Manual .
Occupational and biographical information - 45th Legislature, Chapter 1, "The Big Job," pp. 1-17. The Legislature and the Texas People 1937.