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A.M. Aikin, Jr.

A.M. Aikin, Jr.
Full Name: Alexander Mack Aikin, Jr.
Other surnames: Aiken,
Birth date: October 9, 1905
Death date: October 24, 1981

Terms of Service

  • Senate, 65th & 64th Legislatures
    1/14/1975 - 1/9/1979
    Democrat
    Dean of the Senate.
    Dean of the Senate.
  • Senate, 63rd (2) Legislature
    1/9/1973 - 1/14/1975
    Democrat
    Dean of the Senate.
  • Senate, 62nd & 61st Legislatures
    1/14/1969 - 1/9/1973
    Democrat
    Dean of the Senate.
    Dean of the Senate.
  • Senate, 60th (5) Legislature
    1/10/1967 - 1/14/1969
    Democrat
    Dean of the Senate.
  • Senate, 59th & 58th (3) (6) (9) Legislatures
    1/8/1963 - 1/10/1967
    Democrat
    Dean of the Senate.
    Dean of the Senate.
  • Senate, 57th & 56th Legislatures
    1/13/1959 - 1/8/1963
    Democrat
  • Senate, 55th & 54th Legislatures
    1/11/1955 - 1/13/1959
    Democrat
  • Senate, 53rd (4) Legislature
    1/13/1953 - 1/11/1955
    Democrat
  • Senate, 52nd & 51st Legislatures
    1/11/1949 - 1/13/1953
    Democrat
  • Senate, 50th & 49th Legislatures
    1/9/1945 - 1/11/1949
    Democrat
  • Senate, 48th & 47th Legislatures
    1/14/1941 - 1/9/1945
    Democrat
    Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim R.S., elected 5/11/1943.
  • Senate, 46th (8) & 45th (7) Legislatures
    1/12/1937 - 1/14/1941
    Democrat
  • House, 44th Legislature
    1/8/1935 - 1/12/1937
    Democrat
  • House, 43rd (1) Legislature
    1/10/1933 - 1/8/1935
    Democrat
(1) Lawyer. Questionnaire on name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, and relationship to persons in state or county government. 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal .
(2) 63rd Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/10/1973, pp. 12-13. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal .
(3) 58th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/9/1963, p. 16. Drew 4-year term. Senate Journal .
(4) 53rd Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/14/1953, pp. 16-17. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal .
(5) 60th Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/11/1967, p. 19. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal .
(6) 58th Legislature - Presentation of Dean of Senate, 1/8/1963, p. 15. Senator Reagan by unanimous consent presented Senator A.M. Aikin, Jr., as Dean of the Senate, succeeding former Senator R.A. Weinert of Seguin. Senate Journal .
(7) 45th Legislature - Oath of Office Administered to Senators-Elect, 1/12/1937, p. 2. Senate Journal .
(8) 46th Legislature - Roll Call of Senators, holdover Senators "who were Members of the Forty-fifth Legislature and whose terms of office continue for the duration of the Forty-sixth Legislature," 1/10/1939, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(9) See the Senate Journal, 58th Legislature, p. 15. Texas Senate, Secretary of the Senate - Memo, January 8, 2002, 'Deans of the Texas Senate' 2002.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Program commemorating Senator A.M. Aikin, Jr. Day and the hanging of his portrait in the Texas Senate on 5/26/1973. LRL collection, L1803.8 AI43D. A.M. Aikin, Jr. 1973.
  • Biographical sketch and description of the Aikin Archive collection, A.M. and Welma Aikin Regional Archives .
  • Joint session of the legislature called to honor A.M. Aikin, Jr., "a tradition very seldom broken that this state honor a living human being," "Dean of Legislature Honored at Capitol," 5/27/1973. Austin American-Statesman .
  • Relatives: A.M. Aikin, Jr. - father; A.M. Aikin, III - son; "Aikin to Run for Education Board," 11/11/1987. Austin American-Statesman .
  • "And for those who have wondered what 'A.M.' stands for—it's initials only, no first or middle name," "A Tribute to 37 Years of Service," 5/24/1973, p. 27. Dallas Morning News .
  • Census of 1910 - Alexander M. Aikin, Lamar County, age 4, born circa 1906 in Texas, son of Alexander M. Aikin.
    Census of 1920 - Alexander Aikin, Jr., Lamar County, age 14, born circa 1906 in Texas, son of Alexander M. Aikin.
    Census of 1930 - A.M. Aiken, Paris, Lamar County, age 22, born circa 1908 in Texas, salesman/dry goods store, wife Wilma.
    Census of 1940 - "A.M." Aikin, Paris, Lamar County, age 33, born circa 1907 in Texas, Senator/State of Texas, wife Wilma. FamilySearch . 1920 1910
    • 1940 1930
  • A.M. Aikin, Jr., birth date 10/9/1905, death date 10/24/1981, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County. Includes "A Life of Service," biographical sketch of Alexander Mack Aikin, Jr., from the A.M. and Welma Aikin Jr. Regional Archives at Paris Junior College. Find a Grave .
  • Photograph, Gilmer-Aikin Bills: a Study in the Legislative Process 1950.
  • AIKIN, A.M., JR. (1905-1981). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Obituary, 10/26/1981, "A.M. Aikin, Longest Tenured in Texas Legislature, Is Dead." New York Times .
  • Mentioned in history of Senatorial redistricting for Lamar County, "Backward Glances (from the scrapbooks of the late A.W. Neville, Editor of the Paris News, 1936-1956, 3/14/1951)," republished 8/26/1976, p. 6. Paris News .
  • Delegate to the Texas Constitutional Convention, 1974. Record of Proceedings, Texas Constitutional Convention: Official Journals, January 8 - July 30, 1974 1975.
  • Biographical sketch and photo. Senate Biographies, 63rd Legislature 1973.
  • As Senate President Pro Tem, Aikin declared martial law in Beaumont, TX, following race riots, "Sen. Aikin has Busy Time Pinch-Hitting for Stevenson as Martial Law Reigns," 6/21/1943. State Observer .
  • Photo, Texas Education Agency .
  • Occupational and biographical information - 45th Legislature, Chapter 1, "The Big Job," pp. 1-17. The Legislature and the Texas People 1937.
  • Biographical sketch and photo. The Senators of Texas, 64th Session 1975.

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