Terms of Service

• Senate, 45th ⁽³⁾ & 44th ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
  1/8/1935 - 1/10/1939
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 2nd C.S., elected 10/26/1937.
• Senate, 43rd ⁽⁴⁾ & 42nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislatures
  1/13/1931 - 1/8/1935
  Democrat
  

(1) 42nd Legislature - Roll Call of Newly-Elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/13/1931, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(2) 44th Legislature - Roll Call of New Senators and Certificate of New Senators, oath of office administered, 1/8/1935, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(3) 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 .
(4) 43rd Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/10/1933, p. 1. Senate Media .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 56th Legislature, 2nd C.S., SR 54. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 57th Legislature, R.S., SR 148. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. Ben G. Oneal, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben G. Oneal, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben G. Oneal, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben G. Oneal, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• ONEAL, BENJAMIN GRADY (1874-1960). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Memorial, January 1961, p. 85. Texas Bar Journal .
• Oneal, Benjamin Grady. Texas State Cemetery .

Committee Information

• 45th R.S. - 1937
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Educational Affairs  
• Finance  
• Interstate Cooperation (Chair) 
• Labor  
• Nominations of the Governor (Chair) 
• Public Health  
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Affairs  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic  
• State Institutions and Departments  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• 44th R.S. - 1935
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Finance  
• Game and Fish  
• Interstate Cooperation  
• Labor  
• Nominations of the Governor (Chair) 
• Poet Laureate Selection, Special  
• Portrait of Honorable John N. Garner, Special  
• Public Health  
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Affairs  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic  
• State Institutions and Departments  
• Stock and Stock Raising (Vice Chair) 
• 43rd R.S. - 1933
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Congressional Districts  
• Constitutional Amendments (Chair) 
• Game and Fish  
• Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate  
• Public Land and Land Office (Vice Chair) 
• Rules  
• State Affairs  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Stock and Stockraising (Vice Chair) 
• Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate  
• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Public Lands and Land Office  
• Rules  
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Affairs  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• Tax Survey Committee (Chair) 
• Towns and City Corporations (Chair)