Texas Legislators: Past & Present

David Mimms Harris

Full Name: David Mimms "Dave" Harris
Birth date: May 18, 1887
Death date: November 24, 1959

Terms of Service

House, 45th Legislature
1/12/1937 - 1/10/1939
Democrat
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

Photographs

Photograph. D.M. Harris, State Preservation Board
Photograph. D.M. Harris, State Preservation Board
Photograph. D.M. Harris, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Dave M. Harris, birth date 5/18/1887 in Pottsboro; death date 11/24/1959 in Wichita Falls, Wichita County; stock farmer - county judge. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
United States Army, Private, Company F, 34th Infantry to discharge. David Mimms Harris, birth date 5/18/1887 in Locust, Texas; residence in Henrietta, Clay County, Texas; inducted at Henrietta, Texas, 5/26/1918. FamilySearch Texas, World War I Records, 1917-1920 (Texas Military Forces Museum, Austin) .
David Mimms Harris, birth date 5/18/1887 in Locust, Texas; home address Henrietta, farmer; draft registration 6/5/1917 in Clay County. FamilySearch United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 .
United States Army, Private, Company F, 34th Infantry (Co 8 Cas Det) (BH Cas Det), discharged 3/25/1919. David Mimms Harris, birth date 5/18/1887, death date 11/24/1959. FamilySearch United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 1985.
Private, 8 Casual Co., World War I. Military grave marker, David M. Harris, birth date 5/18/1887, death date 11/24 (death year obscured), burial in Archer City Cemetery, Archer County. Find a Grave .
45th Legislature (1937) - D.M. Harris, postoffice Archer City, Archer County, nativity Texas, age 49, stockfarmer, member former legislatures: 43rd, 44th. Texas Legislative Manual .
Obituary, "Former Archer County Judge Dies," Tuesday evening, 11/24/1959, p. 1. Dave M. Harris, birth date 5/18/1887 in Pottsboro; "Archer County resident since 1913 . . . married Miss Marie Koethe in Henrietta in 1927"; "served three terms in the Texas Legislature, from 1933 to 1939"; death date 11/24/1959. Wichita Falls Times .