Terms of Service

• Senate, 45th ⁽³⁾ & 44th ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
  1/8/1935 - 1/10/1939
  Democrat
  
• Senate, 43rd ⁽⁴⁾ & 42nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislatures
  1/13/1931 - 1/8/1935
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, 2nd C.S., elected 1/29/1934.

(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

Photographs

• Photograph. Frank Rawlings, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Frank H. Rawlings, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Frank H. Rawlings, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Frank H. Rawlings, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Frank Rawlings, birth date 7/8/1890, death September 1977 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County. FamilySearch United States Social Security Death Index .
• Frank Hill Rawlings, birth date 7/8/1890, death date 9/2/1977, burial in Greenwood Memorial Park and Mausoleum Fort Worth, Tarrant County. Find a Grave .
• Obituary, "Former State Sen. Rawlings Dies," 9/3/1977, p. 11d. Born in Morristown, Tennessee; died 9/2/1977 in Purcell, Oklahoma. Fort Worth Star-Telegram .
• Frank H. Rawlings, death date 9/2/1977 in McClain County, Oklahoma. Oklahoma State Vital Records Index 2016.
• 45th Legislature (1937) - Frank H. Rawlings, postoffice Fort Worth, Tarrant County, nativity Tennessee, age 46, lawyer, Democrat, member of former legislatures: 42nd, 43rd, 44th Senate. Texas Legislative Manual .

Committee Information

• 45th R.S. - 1937
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Compact with Oklahoma Relative to Use of Red River by Texas Citizens, Special  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Finance  
• Insurance  
• Labor  
• Representative Districts  
• Rules (Chair) 
• State Affairs (Vice Chair) 
• State Highways and Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• State Penitentiaries  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• 44th R.S. - 1935
• Auditing of State Highway Department  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Finance  
• Insurance  
• Internal Improvements  
• Labor (Chair) 
• Noncontested Bills, Special  
• Public Health  
• Public Printing  
• Representative Districts  
• State Affairs (Vice Chair) 
• State Highways and Motor Traffic  
• State Penitentiaries  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• Texas-Oklahoma Boundary Dispute, Special  
• Towns and City Corporations (Chair) 
• 43rd R.S. - 1933
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Crime Investigation (Vice Chair) 
• Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate  
• Insurance  
• Internal Improvements  
• Investigating Crime (Vice Chair) 
• Labor  
• Public Health  
• Public Printing  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• State Penitentiaries  
• Stock and Stockraising  
• Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate  
• Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate, Steering Committee  
• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Commerce and Manufacturing (Chair) 
• Insurance  
• Internal Improvements  
• Labor  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Public Health  
• Public Printing  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic (Vice Chair) 
• State Penitentiaries  
• Stock and Stock Raising