Terms of Service

• House, 42nd Legislature
  1/13/1931 - 1/10/1933
  Democrat
  
• House, 41st Legislature
  1/8/1929 - 1/13/1931
  Democrat
  
• House, 40th Legislature
  1/11/1927 - 1/8/1929
  Democrat
  
• House, 39th ^{(1) (2)} Legislature
  9/13/1926 - 1/11/1927
  Democrat
  

(1) Sam Hefley, in special election 9/4/1926, sworn 9/13/1926, succeeded D.S. Hollowell, resigned 12/1/1925. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(2) Assumed Democrat based on listing as Democrat in subsequent Legislatures. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 44th Legislature, R.S., 3/15/1935, p. 702. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. Sam Hefley, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Sam Hefley, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Sam Hefley, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Samuel Swain Hefley birth date 1/15/1871, death date 3/14/1935, burial in Oak Hill Cemetery, Cameron, Milam County. No grave marker photo, cites obituaries from Cameron Herald, 3/14/1935 and 3/21/1935, Dallas Morning News 3/15/1935. Find a Grave .
• Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/31/1929, p. 5. Houston Post-Dispatch .

Committee Information

• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Banks and Banking (Vice Chair) 
• Game and Fisheries  
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Lands and Buildings  
• 41st R.S. - 1929
• Banks and Banking  
• Claims and Accounts  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Lands and Buildings  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• 40th R.S. - 1927
• Appropriations  
• Banks and Banking  
• Contingent Expenses (Vice Chair) 
• Oil, Gas and Mining  
• Revenue and Taxation  
• 39th R.S. - 1925
• Examination of Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts  
• Labor  
• Live Stock and Stock Raising