Terms of Service

• Senate, 25th ⁽¹⁾ & 24th ⁽²⁾ Legislatures
  1/8/1895 - 1/10/1899
  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 .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 47th Legislature, R.S., HSR 301, 5/22/1941, pp. 3500-3501. In Memory of Rawlins M. Colquitt. Relatives: O.B. Colquitt - father, Rawlins M. Colquitt - son. Resolutions - Memorial .
• 47th Legislature, R.S., HSR 11, 1/14/1941, pp. 26-27. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. O.B. Colquitt, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. O.B. Colquitt, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, Oscar B. Colquitt, pp. 190-191. Mentions son Rawlins M. Colquitt. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• Brief sketch of campaigns and governorship, Hon. Oscar Branch Colquitt, pp. 127-128. Governors Who Have Been, and Other Public Men of Texas 1921.
• COLQUITT, OSCAR BRANCH (1861-1940). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Governor of Texas 1911-1915. Legislative Reference Library, Governors of Texas, 1846-present .
• Railroad Commissioners Past through Present, with dates of service. Railroad Commission of Texas .
• Biographical sketch, Oscar B. Colquitt, pp. 50-51. Born 12/16/1861 in Camilla, Mitchell County, Georgia, married Alice Murrell 12/9/1885 in Pittsburg, Texas. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, O.B. Colquitt, pp. 127-128. Texas, the Country and Its Men: Historical, Biographical, Descriptive 1918.

Committee Information

• 25th R.S. - 1897
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Education  
• Finance  
• Internal Improvements (Chair) 
• Investigation Relative to Missing Amendment to S.B. No. 258 - Text-book Bill, Special  
• Judicial Districts  
• Judiciary No. 2  
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Printing  
• State Affairs  
• State Asylums  
• Towns and City Corporations  
• 24th R.S. - 1895
• Claims and Accounts  
• Counties and County Boundaries  
• Education  
• Engrossed Bills  
• Enrolled Bills  
• Finance  
• Insurance, Statistics and History  
• Internal Improvements  
• Judiciary No. 2  
• Officers and Employes, Special  
• Penal Code and Code Criminal Procedure, Special  
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Printing  
• Roads and Bridges  
• State Affairs  
• State Asylums (Chair) 
• Towns and City Corporations