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Robert Lee McDowra

R.L. McDowra
Full Name: Robert Lee McDowra
Birth date: June 18, 1869
Death date: September 28, 1959

Terms of Service

  • House, 36th Legislature
    1/14/1919 - 1/11/1921
    Democrat
  • House, 35th (1) (2) (3) (4) Legislature
    1/9/1917 - 1/14/1919
    Democrat
  • House, 32nd Legislature
    1/10/1911 - 1/14/1913
    Democrat
(1) Personnel of the New Texas Legislature, House of Representatives, 12/17/1916, p. 23, lists R.L. McDowra, Pattonville, Lamar County. Galveston Daily News .
(2) R.L. McDowra of Paris, residence in Lamar County, pp. 2, 5. House Journal .
(3) Paris, Lamar County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Pattonville. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Robert Lee McDowra, birth date 6/18/1869 in Tennessee; death date 9/28/1959 in Pattonville, Lamar County, Texas; retired farmer, agriculture. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
  • Robert L. McDowra (1869-1959), burial in Highland Cemetery, Deport, Lamar County, with spouse Della McDowra. Find a Grave .
  • Obituary, "R.L. McDowra, Former Solon, Dies Sunday," 9/28/1959, p. 1. " . . . he came to Texas in 1892, and had lived in the Pattonville area ever since." Paris News .
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