Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Robert Snead Kimbrough

Full Name: Robert Snead Kimbrough
Birth date: September 19, 1851
Death date: October 11, 1905

Terms of Service

Senate, 22nd ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ & 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislatures
1/8/1889 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
House, 19th Legislature
1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) List of Senators of the 21st Legislature, "The State Senate: Members-Elect in the Different Districts - Austin Local Notes," Galveston Daily News, 11/20/1888, p. 6, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. "There are two independents in the list. The rest are democratic nominees." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(4) 21st Legislature - Roll call of new members, oath of office administered, 1/8/1889, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(5) 22nd Legislature - 1/14/1891, p. 5. Seats formerly occupied by Townsend, Kimbrough & Burney were reserved for them, seat formerly occupied by his predecessor was reserved for Carter, those Sens. being absent. Kimbrough indefinitely excused. Senate Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. R.S. Kimbrough, State Preservation Board
Photograph. R.S. Kimbrough, State Preservation Board
Photograph. R.S. Kimbrough, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Wesley Fletcher And Elizabeth (Pearl) Curtis, from Proud Heritage, Volume III. Daughter Jennie married Robert Snead Kimbrough "often called Mesquite's 'town father'"; death date 10/10/1905. Dallas County Pioneers Association .
"Condition of R.S. Kimbrough," 10/11/1905, p. 4. Obituary and photo, "R.S. Kimbrough Dead," 10/12/1905, p. 4. Former State Senator, death date 10/11/1905. "Resolutions of Respect: Action by Commercial Club Directors on the Death of Hon. R.S. Kimbrough," Dallas Morning News .
R.S. Kimbrough, birth date 9/19/1851, death date 10/11/1905, burial in Mesquite Cemetery, Mesquite, Dallas County. Find a Grave .
KIMBROUGH, ROBERT SNEAD (1851–1905). Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in biographical sketch, Judge Thomas Fletcher Nash, by John H. Cullom, p. 34. Pace's Texas Scrap Book: Containing Gems of Thought From Bench - Bar - Pulpit - Rostrum on Religious, Political and Educational Subjects, Consisting of Sermons, Prayers, Poems, Funeral Orations and Extracts From Various Sources 1933.
Biographical sketch, R.S. Kimbrough, pp. 36-37. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch, R.S. Kimbrough, pp. 151-152. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Robert Snead Kimbrough, pp. 203-205. Born 9/19/1851 near Madisonville, East Tennessee; married Fannie Wesson in 1873 at Litle Rock, Arkansas, and married Jennie Curtis in 1878. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Biographical sketch, R.S. Kimbrough. Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas, 1892, pp. 467-468, crediting Dallas Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Biographical sketch, Robert Snead Kimbrough, p. 388. Born 9/19/1851. Elected to Senate for one term. The Texas Senate: Volume II, Civil War to the Eve of Reform, 1861-1889 1999.