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

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

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.
Memorial, November 1942, p. 435. Wright Chalfant Morrow. Texas Bar Journal .
Honorary, February 1938, p. 37. Texas Bar Journal .