Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James R. Wilson

Full Name: James R. Wilson
Birth date: July 26, 1864
Death date: August 7, 1904

Terms of Service

Senate, 28th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/13/1903 - 8/7/1904
Democrat
Senate, 27th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/8/1901 - 1/13/1903
Democrat

(1) 2-year term; entire Senate went up for reelection in 1902 due to redistricting. Act approved Sep. 6, 1901, 27th Leg., 1st C.S., ch. 6, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950 1950.
(2) Wilson died after 1st C.S. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) 28th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/28/1903, pp. 107-108. Drew 4-year term. Senate Journal .
(4) 27th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/8/1901, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(5) 28th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/13/1903, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

29th Legislature, R.S., 1/11/1905, p. 7. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. J.R. Wilson, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.R. Wilson, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Census of 1900 - Jas. R. Wilson, Bowie County, age 36, born July 1864 in Virginia, district clerk, wife Mary L. Wilson. FamilySearch .
James R. Wilson, birth date 7/26/1864, death date 8/7/1904, burial at Shipp Cemetery, New Boston, Bowie County. Find a Grave .
Death notice, "Senator Wilson Dead," dateline 8/8/1904, newspaper dated 8/9/1904; State Senator James R. Wilson died last night (8/7/1904) at his home in New Boston of typhoid fever. Galveston Daily News .
"Terrell to Succeed Wilson," 8/23/1904, p. 3. " . . . Morris County has presented the name of J.M. Terrell of Daingerfield as a candidate to succeed the late Senator J.R. Wilson of the first. Terrell is a lawyer, and his county claims the Senatorship." Galveston Daily News .
28th Legislature (1903) - J.R. Wilson, postoffice Texarkana, Bowie County, nativity Virginia, farmer, age 38 (born circa 1865), Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .
Biographical sketch, J.R. Wilson, p. 63. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.