Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Jesse Abram Thomas

Full Name: Jesse Abram Thomas
Birth date: December 19, 1868
Death date: July 8, 1915

J.A. Thomas, born 12/19/1868, died 7/8/1915, burial in Cedars Memorial Gardens, Mineola, Wood County. Includes death notices in The Olney Enterprise, 7/16/1915, and Cleburne Morning Review, 7/11/1915 ("served in the Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth legislatures from Fannin County"). Find a Grave .
Obituary, "Texas News Letter," Editor and Publisher, Volume 48, Number 6, 7/17/1915, p. 149. Google Books .
Biographical sketch of Jesse Abram Thomas included in "Vasser Items," Pickens County Herald and West Alabamian (Carrollton, Alabama), 11/12/1902, p. 2. Birth date 12/19/1868 near Palmetto, "this county," Alabama; son of Dr. M.N. Thomas; editor of the Leonard Graphic, Texas; lawyer in Sulphur Springs, Texas, and "has been twice elected judge of Hopkins County, Texas." Newspapers.com .
Brief vignettes on members of the 30th Legislature, "Kodaks by the Chaplain," The Houston Post, 5/12/1907, p. 6, col. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
29th Legislature (1905) - J.A. Thomas, postoffice Leonard, nativity Alabama, age 35 (born circa 1870), editor, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .