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James Harvey Robertson

J.H. Robertson
Full Name: James Harvey Robertson
Birth date: May 2, 1853
Death date: March 2, 1912

Terms of Service

  • House, 32nd Legislature
    1/10/1911 - 3/2/1912
    Democrat
  • House, 31st (1) Legislature
    1/12/1909 - 1/10/1911
    Democrat
  • House, 30th Legislature
    1/8/1907 - 1/12/1909
    Democrat
  • House, 18th (2) Legislature
    1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
    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) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Biographical sketch, James Harvey Robertson, Volume IV, p. 1719. Relatives: James Harvey Robertson, father; John B. Robertson, son. A History of Texas and Texans 1914.
  • Biographical sketch, author of "Robertson Insurance Law," requiring insurance companies to invest 75 percent of reserve in the state, p. 78. Austin Lawyers: A Legacy of Leadership and Service 2005.
  • Obituary, 3/5/1912, p. 4. Daily Advocate (Victoria, Texas) .
  • James and John Robertson mentioned in A Twist At the End: "John and James Robertson were respectively the mayor of Austin and the district attorney of Travis County . . . both of the Robertsons had served a term in the Texas legislature . . ." , p. 136. Relatives: John W. Robertson and James Harvey Robertson - brothers. Google Books .
  • ROBERTSON, JAMES HARVEY (1853-1912). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Biographical sketch, James H. Robertson, pp. 286-287. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas 1890.
  • Portrait and biographical sketch, James H. Robertson, pp. 477-478. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
  • Biographical sketch, p. 266. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
  • Austin Mayor John W. Robertson and Travis County District Attorney James H. Robertson, brothers, mentioned in "Capital Murder," July 2000, by Skip Hollandsworth. Texas Monthly .
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