Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Claud Caldwell Westerfeld

Full Name: Claud Caldwell Westerfeld
Birth date: June 10, 1882
Death date: July 3, 1954

Terms of Service

Senate, 45th ⁽²⁾ & 44th ⁽¹⁾ Legislatures
1/8/1935 - 1/10/1939
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim R.S., elected 5/22/1937.

(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. Claud C. Westerfeld, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Claud C. Westerfeld, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Obituary, "Former State Senator, Claud C. Westerfeld, Dies," 7/4/1954. Dallas Morning News .
Claud Caldwell Westerfeld, birth date 6/10/1882 in Hays County, death date 7/3/1954 in Dallas, Dallas County, attorney at law. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Claude C. Westerfeld, birth date 6/10/1882, death date 7/3/1954, burial in Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas. Find a Grave .
Discussion of Westerfeld's opposition to Sarah T. Hughes' judicial appointment, Westerfeld congressional race in 1936, pp. 77-83, 87, 92-93. LRL collection, 923.2764 H874P 2004. Indomitable Sarah: The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes 2004.
Memorial, October 1954, p. 624. Birth date 6/10/1882, death date 7/2/1954. Texas Bar Journal .