Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Oliver Perry Bowser

Full Name: Oliver Perry Bowser
Birth date: March 21, 1842
Death date: December 14, 1915

Terms of Service

House, 29th ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/10/1905 - 1/8/1907
Democrat
Senate, 25th ⁽¹⁾ & 24th ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
1/8/1895 - 1/10/1899
Democrat
Senate, 23rd ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/10/1893 - 1/8/1895
Democrat

(1) 25th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/12/1897, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(2) 24th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/8/1895, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(3) 23rd Legislature - All 31 Senators are listed in Roll Call on First Day, 1/10/1893, p. 1; resolution by Sen. Cranford that the Senators shall now be divided by lot into two classes, 1/11/1893, p. 5; drew term of 2 years. Senate Journal . January 10, 1893
January 11, 1893
(4) O.P. Bowser (House district 37), postoffice Dallas, nativity Ohio, lands and real estate, member of former Legislatures: 23rd, 24th, 25th Senate, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

35th Legislature, R.S., 1/18/1917, p. 174. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. O.P. Bowser, State Preservation Board
Photograph. O.P. Bowser, State Preservation Board
Photograph. O.P. Bowser, State Preservation Board
Photograph. O.P. Bowser, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Volume III, pp. 1429-1431. Death date 12/14/1915. Bowser "served a term in the lower house of the Legislature and in 1892 was elected state senator and served one four-year term and two two-year terms. Following that he was again elected a representative." A History of Texas and Texans 1916.
Oliver Perry Bowser, Confederate States Army, 2nd Lieutenant. U.S., Veterans' Gravesites, ca.1775-2019; Handley Family Tree. Ancestry.com .
Obituary, "Col. Oliver P. Bowser Dies Suddenly at Home," 12/15/1915, p. 16. "Died at 6 o'clock yesterday . . . " Dallas Morning News .
O.P. Bowser, birth date 3/21/1842 in Miamisburg, Ohio; death date 12/14/1915 in Dallas; occupation: real estate. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Confederate States Army, 2nd Lieutenant, 18th Texas Cavalry. Oliver Perry Bowser, military grave marker, birth date 3/21/1942, death date 12/15/1915, Greenwood Cemetery, Dallas; O.P. Bowser (1843-1915), photo, Grove Hill Memorial Park, Dallas. Find a Grave . O.P. Bowser Oliver Perry Bowser
Biographical sketch, "Lawmakers of Texas: Something about Men Who Left Records at Austin: Cranford, Bowser, Simpson, Atlee, Imboden, Steele, Greer and Douglass. Their Personal and Political Points," 8/27/1893, p. 13. Galveston Daily News .
BOWSER, OLIVER P. (1842-1915). Death date 12/15/1915. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, O.P. Bowser, pp. 34-35. Born 3/21/1842 in Montgomery County, Ohio. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Biographical sketch, Oliver Perry Bowser, pp. 324-325. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.