Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Gary Bonner Sanford

Full Name: Gary Bonner Sanford
Birth date: June 30, 1890
Death date: December 21, 1966

Terms of Service

House, 39th ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ ⁽¹¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1925 - 1/11/1927
Democrat
House, 38th ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽¹⁰⁾ Legislature
1/9/1923 - 1/13/1925
Democrat
House, 37th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ ⁽¹²⁾ Legislature
5/6/1922 - 1/9/1923
Democrat

(1) District 6 composed of the county of Rusk, Acts 1911, 32nd Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 10, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Census of 1920 - Gary Sanford listed in the Charles E. Sanford household in Arlam [incorporated place: voting precinct 26, Caledonia], Rusk County. FamilySearch .
(3) TIMPSON, TEXAS. "Timpson is on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the junction of U.S. highways 87, 84, and 59, fifteen miles northwest of Center in northwestern Shelby County." Handbook of Texas Online .
(4) Timpson. House Journal .
(5) Timpson. House Journal .
(6) Gary B. Sanford, in special election 5/6/1922, succeeded Lumpkin Webb, died after 2nd Called Session [sic]. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(7) Timpson, Rusk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(8) Timpson, Rusk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(9) Timpson, Rusk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(10) Garrison. Texas Legislative Manual .
(11) Garrison. Texas Legislative Manual .
(12) Assumed Democrat based on listing as Democrat in 38th and 39th Legislatures. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. G.B. Sanford, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Gary B. Sanford, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Capt. Thomas Smith Garrison, Volume III, pp. 1410-1411. Born 5/17/1837 in Carroll County, Georgia. Relatives: Caleb Garrison and Thomas Smith Garrison - brothers. Relatives: Thomas Smith Garrison - grandfather; Gary Bonner Sanford [son of Adele Bonner Garrison Sanford] - grandson. Relatives: Caleb Garrison - great-uncle; Gary Bonner Sanford - great-nephew. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
Gary Bonner Sanford, birth date 6/30/1890 in Timpson, death date 12/21/1966 in Jasper County, usual residence in Timpson, Rusk County, retired government employee, served in World War I. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
United States Army, Private, University of Texas Training Detachment to discharge. Gary B. Sanford, inducted at Rusk, Texas, 6/26/1918, birthplace Simpson [Timpson], Texas, age 27 11/12 years. FamilySearch Texas, World War I Records, 1917-1920 (Texas Military Forces Museum, Austin) .
Gary Bonner Sanford, birth date 6/30/1890, home address and birthplace Timpson, Texas, farmer, draft registration 6/5/1917 in Rusk County. FamilySearch United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 .
United States Army, Private, Company E, 18th Infantry, World War I. Gary Bomer [sic] Sanford, Timpson, Texas, birth date 6/30/1890, death date 12/21/1966, enlisted June 1918, discharged December 1918. FamilySearch United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940 1985.
Gary B. Sanford (1890-1966), burial in Caledonia Cemetery, Caledonia, Rusk County. Find a Grave .
Calculated relationship based on James Freeborn Garrison, Susan Mandeville Garrison, and Edgar Hubbard Carter family group sheets. Relatives: Edgar Hubbard Carter and Gary Bonner Sanford - cousins once removed. Garrison-Logan Family History & Genealogy 2001. Garrison-Logan Family History & Genealogy

Garrison-Logan Family History & Genealogy

GARY, TX. In 1898, Sanford's maternal grandfather helped to establish a settlement between Timpson and Carthage; the new town was named Gary, Texas, "in honor of Garrison's grandson." Handbook of Texas Online .
Obituaries, Gary Sanford, 12/22/1966, p. 10, and 12/23/1966, p. 12. Gary Bonner Sanford, former State Senator, grandson of Capt. T.S. Garrison, veteran of World War I. "The town of Gary was named for Gary Sanford." Marshall News Messenger .