Terms of Service

• Senate, 27th ⁽²⁾ & 26th ⁽¹⁾ Legislatures
  1/10/1899 - 1/13/1903
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 9/4/1901, 1st C.S.; and 2nd C.S.

(1) 26th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1899, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(2) 27th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1901, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 39th Legislature, R.S., SR 74, 3/16/1925, pp. 1056-1057. Birth date 12/30/1867, death date 12/12/1924. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. D.W. Odell, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. D.W. Odell, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Hon. Daniel Weldon Odell, Volume II, p. 164. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
• Daniel Weldon Odell, born in Crockett, death date 12/12/1924 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
• D.W. Odell, birth date 12/30/1866, death date 12/12/1924, burial in Cleburne Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, Johnson County. Find a Grave .
• Died 12/12/1924, Chairman Industrial Accident Board 1917-1918. Legislative Reference Library Card File .
• Obituary, "Senator Odell, Noted Texas Lawyer Dies in Fort Worth," 12/13/1924, p. 1. McKinney Daily Courier-Gazette .
• Biographical sketch, Daniel W. Odell, pp. 70. Born 12/30/1867 in Crockett. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.

Committee Information

• 27th R.S. - 1901
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Internal Improvements  
• Judicial Districts  
• Labor  
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• Roads, Bridges and Ferries  
• State Affairs (Chair) 
• 26th R.S. - 1899
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Insurance, Statistics and History  
• Internal Improvements  
• Judiciary No. 1  
• Public Debts, Claims and Accounts  
• Public Roads, Bridges and Ferries (Chair) 
• State Affairs