Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Charles B. Metcalfe

Full Name: Charles B. Metcalfe
Birth date: May 18, 1856
Death date: December 11, 1941

48th Legislature, HCR 150. Relatives: Charles Metcalfe - father; Penrose Metcalfe - son. Resolutions - Memorial .

Charles B. Metcalfe, birth date 5/18/1856 in Tennessee, death date 12/11/1941 in San Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, ranchman. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Charles B. Metcalfe, birth date 5/18/1856, death date 12/11/1941, burial in Fairmount Cemetery, San Angelo, Tom Green County. Includes portrait, historical marker, profile from the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 5/21/1936, and obituaries in the Austin American, 12/14/1941, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 12/12/1941, and Dallas Morning News, 12/12/1941. Find a Grave .
Occupation and religious affiliation, 34th Legislature. "Occupations of Members of Legislative House," 3/14/1915, p. 4. Galveston Daily News .
METCALFE, CHARLES B. (1856-1941). Handbook of Texas Online .
"Charles B. Metcalfe Services Set Here at 3:30 P.M. Today," 12/12/1941, p. 1, 20. San Angelo Standard-Times .
Author of HB 105, 35th 4th Called Session, first women's suffrage bill to pass in the Texas Legislature (1918). Description of bill signing, "This law gave women the right to vote at all primary elections and in all nominating conventions. . .Since Texas had two U.S. Senators and 18 Representatives it gave the women votes for more members of Congress than in any other state possessed, and consequently for more presidential electors." Volume VI, Chapter XLII, Texas, p. 637. The History of Woman Suffrage 1922.