Terms of Service

• Senate, 43rd ⁽⁵⁾ & 42nd ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
  1/13/1931 - 1/8/1935
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 2nd C.S., elected 2/27/1934.
• Senate, 41st ^{(1) (2)} & 40th ⁽³⁾ Legislatures
  1/11/1927 - 1/13/1931
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 1st C.S., elected 5/21/1929.

(1) "Fifteen State Senators Must Seek Re-Election in Summer", 1/3/1930, p. 2. Big Spring Daily Herald .
(2) 41st Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/8/1929, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(3) 40th Legislature - Certificate of New Senators and Roll Call of New Senators, 1/11/1927, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(4) 42nd Legislature - Roll Call of Newly-Elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/13/1931, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(5) 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

• 59th Legislature, R.S., SR 507, 90th birthday. First woman member of first Democratic Executive Committee (1918) and delegate to Democratic Convention in San Francisco the first year ladies were delegates (1920). Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 74th Legislature, R.S., SR 1069. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. Margie Neal, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Margie E. Neal, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Margie E. Neal, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Margie E. Neal, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• "Lone Star Lore: Margie Neal," Volume 6, No. 17, August 15, 2002, p. 6. Capitol Clearinghouse Update .
• Portrait and biography, Mary Elizabeth (Margie) Neal, pp. 81-84. Second woman elected to the Texas Legislature and first woman to serve in the Texas Senate. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999 2000.
• Photos and biography, Carthage, Texas 2004.
• A Guide to the Margie E. Neal Papers, 1875-1953, biographical sketch. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin 2006.
• Biographical sketch, "Margie E. Neal: First Woman Senator in Texas," by Walter L. Harris, Volume 11, pp. 40-50, Spring 1973. East Texas Historical Journal .
• NEAL, MARGIE ELIZABETH (1875-1971). First woman in the Texas Senate. Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/16/1929, p. 3. Houston Post-Dispatch .
• Portrait and biographical sketch, from Votes for Women! The Women's Suffrage Movement in Texas, Texas State Library and Archives Commission .
• Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate 2019.
• Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate 2017.

Committee Information

• 43rd R.S. - 1933
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Commerce and Manufacturing  
• Contingent Expense  
• Educational Affairs (Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate  
• Judicial Districts  
• Poet Laureate Selection, Special  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Public Debts (Vice Chair) 
• Public Health  
• State Institutions and Departments  
• State Penitentiaries  
• Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate  
• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Commerce and Manufacturing  
• Contingent Expense  
• Educational Affairs (Chair) 
• Federal Relations (Vice Chair) 
• Judicial Districts  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Public Debt (Vice Chair) 
• Public Health  
• State Institutions and Departments  
• 41st R.S. - 1929
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Commerce and Manufacture  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Educational Affairs (Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Judicial Districts  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Public Debts (Vice Chair) 
• State Institutions and Departments  
• 40th R.S. - 1927
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Educational Affairs (Vice Chair) 
• Federal Relations  
• Judicial Districts  
• Privileges and Elections (Chair) 
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Public Debts  
• Rules (Chair) 
• State Song (Chair)