Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Offa Shivers Lattimore

Full Name: Offa Shivers Lattimore
Birth date: January 10, 1865
Death date: October 27, 1937

Terms of Service

Senate, 35th ⁽⁴⁾ & 34th ⁽¹⁾ Legislatures
1/12/1915 - 1/14/1919
Democrat
Senate, 33rd ⁽²⁾ & 32nd ⁽³⁾ Legislatures
1/10/1911 - 1/12/1915
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 1/14/1913, Regular Session.

(1) 34th Legislature - Elected November 3, 1914, oath of office administered to members elect, 1/12/1915, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(2) 33rd Legislature - Roll Call, holdover Senators elected on 11/8/1910 for a full period of four years, 1/14/1913, pp. 1-3. Senate Journal .
(3) 32nd Legislature - Roll Call of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1911, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(4) 35th Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/9/1917, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, Texas Jurists Collection
Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, State Preservation Board
Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, State Preservation Board
Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, State Preservation Board
Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

LATTIMORE, OFFA SHIVERS (1865-1937). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, O.S. Lattimore, pp. 654-656. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Tarrant and Parker Counties 1895.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Offa Shivers Lattimore, Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1919-1937. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
Biographical sketch, Senate of the 35th Legislature, "A Look at the Affairs of State: The Real Names and Addresses of Thirty-one Senators With Additional Facts," The Houston Post, 3/22/1917, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Memorial, February 1938, p. 39. Texas Bar Journal .
Lattimore, Offa Shivers. Texas State Cemetery .
History of the Elizabeth Patton Crockett monument in Acton, Texas. Legislation establishing the monument introduced by Senators O.S. Lattimore and Pierce Ward. TexasEscapes.com .
Biography of O.S. and his father, John Lee Lattimore, p. 54. The Terrells: Eighty-Five Years Texas from Indians to Atomic Bomb 1948.