Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James McDonald Meachum

Full Name: James McDonald Meachum
Birth date: August 5, 1876
Death date: June 20, 1957

Terms of Service

Senate, 32nd ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ & 31st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
1/12/1909 - 10/2/1911
Democrat
Senate, 30th ⁽⁵⁾ & 29th ⁽⁶⁾ Legislatures
1/10/1905 - 1/12/1909
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/12/1907, Regular Session.
House, 28th Legislature
1/13/1903 - 1/10/1905
Democrat

(1) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture) 1910.
(2) Meachum resigned 10/2/1911. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) 32nd Legislature - Roll Call of holdover Senators, 1/10/1911, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(4) 31st Legislature - Roll Call of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/12/1909, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(5) 30th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1907, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(6) 29th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1905, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Mc D. Meachum, State Preservation Board
Photograph. McDonald Meachum, State Preservation Board
Photograph. McDonald Meachum, State Preservation Board
Photograph. McDonald Meachum, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, McDonald Meachum, Volume IV, p. 1699. Born 8/5/1876 in Anderson, Grimes County. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
J. McDonald Meachum in "Men who have represented Grimes County in the House of Representatives/State Senate, 1846-1931," p. 208. Early History of Grimes County 1930.
Includes brief discussion of East Texas Senators McDonald Meachum and William J. Greer, Volume III, Chapter XXXIII, "Some East Texas banking history," p. 1381. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers 1940.
James M. Meachum, death date 6/20/1957 in Hartford, Connecticut. FamilySearch . Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001
James McDonald Meachum, birth date 8/5/1876, death date 6/20/1957, burial in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County. Find a Grave .
Biographical sketch, McDonald Meachum, Texas Under Many Flags, 1930, Volume II, p. 168. (Created 7/24/2009.) HeritageQuest Online .
Obituary, "Former State Sen. Meachum Dies at 80," 6/21/1957, p. 1. Houston Chronicle .
McDonald J. Meachum. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
Memorial, 10/22/1957, p. 605. Texas Bar Journal .
McDonald J. Meachum portrait, sponsored SB 111, 31st R.S., professional nursing; Lamar Zivley portrait, author of HB 47, 52nd R.S., Texas Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners. "Texas Board of Nursing: 1909-2009," Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 1, 4. Texas Board of Nursing Bulletin .
Portraits and biographical sketches, "Our Friends in the Legislature," Volume V, No. 1, May 1909, pp. 14-17. Texas State Journal of Medicine 1905.