Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Wright Chalfant Morrow

Full Name: Wright Chalfant Morrow
Birth date: October 12, 1858
Death date: October 6, 1942

Terms of Service

Senate, 34th ⁽¹⁾ & 33rd ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
1/14/1913 - 1/9/1917
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 9/23/1914, 3rd C.S.

(1) 34th Legislature - Roll Call of holdover Senators, 1/12/1915, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(2) 33rd Legislature - List of Senators elected on November 5, 1912, oath of office administered, 1/14/1913, pp. 3-4. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

48th Legislature, R.S., SR 40, 2/22/1943, p. 258-260. Resolutions - Memorial .
48th Legislature, R.S., HSR 106, 2/19/1943, pp. 509-511. Wright Chalfant Morrow. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. W.C. Morrow, Texas Jurists Collection
Photograph. W.C. Morrow, State Preservation Board
Photograph. W.C. Morrow, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Wright C. Morrow, birth date 10/12/1858 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky; death date 10/6/1942 in Hillsboro, Hill County, Texas; retired jurist. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Biographical sketch and portrait, Wright Chalfant Morrow, Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1917-1921; Presiding Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1921-1939. Relatives: W.C. Morrow and Benjamin D. Tarlton - brothers-in-law. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
Morrow (W.C.) papers, 1922-1942, bulk 1922: inventory. Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin 2009.
W.C. Morrow Papers: An Inventory of W.C. Morrow Papers at the Texas State Archives, 1900-1919, bulk 1915-1916. Texas Archival Resources Online 2010.
Memorial, November 1942, p. 435. Texas Bar Journal .
Honorary, February 1938, p. 37. Texas Bar Journal .