Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Thomas Jefferson Brown

Full Name: Thomas Jefferson Brown
Birth date: July 24, 1836
Death date: May 26, 1915

Terms of Service

House, 22nd ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 9/5/1892
Democrat
House, 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/8/1889 - 1/13/1891
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) Brown resigned 9/5/1892. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(4) Democrat. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
(5) Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

34th Legislature, 1st C.S., 5/26/1915, p. 378. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. Thomas Jefferson Brown, Texas Jurists Collection
Photograph. T.J. Brown, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Captain T.J. Brown, p. 119. Mentioned in biographical sketch of William H. Bullock, p. 130. Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Mentioned in biographical sketch of Hon. Alvin C. Owsley, pp. 651-652. "He [Owsley] at once entered into the practice and was thrown into competition with the ablest lawyers of the State, among them . . . Hon. T.J. Brown . . . Hon. W.O. Davis." Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
Thomas Jefferson Brown, birth date 7/24/1836 in Georgia; death date 5/26/1915 in Greenville, Hunt County, Texas; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
T.J. Brown, birth date 7/24/1836, death date 5/26/1915, portrait, burial in West Hill Cemetery, Sherman, Grayson County, with wife Louise T. Brown. Find a Grave .
BROWN, THOMAS JEFFERSON (1836-1915). Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in GRASS-LEASE FIGHT. Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch and portrait, Thomas Jefferson Brown, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1893-1911; Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1911-1915. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
Biographical sketch, Thomas J. Brown, pp. 343-345. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Biographical sketch, Thomas J. Brown, p. 262. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Obituary, Thomas Jefferson Brown, "Judge T.J. Brown Dies in Greenville: Chief Justice Texas Supreme Court Passes Away—Burial Here," Sherman Daily Democrat, 5/26/1915, p. 1.
"Funeral Tomorrow: Services for Judge T.J. Brown to Be Held at 4 O'clock," "Senate Adopts Resolutions," "To Appoint Judge Phillips," Sherman Daily Democrat, 5/27/1915, p. 4.
"The Newspapers on the Death of Judge Brown," Sherman Daily Democrat, 5/31/1915, p. 2. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . 5/27/1915 5/26/1915

5/31/1915

Confederate States Army, Captain, Troop E, Col. Robert Taylor's Cavalry Regiment. Biographical sketch, p. 97. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
Biographical sketch, Thomas J. Brown, Associate Justice, Supreme Court, pp. 4-5. Born 6/24/1836 in Jasper County, Georgia. Texas State Government: A Volume of Biographical Sketches and Passing Comment, 25th Legislature 1897.
Biographical sketch, Thomas J. Brown, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, pp. 7-8. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
Biographical sketch and portrait, p. 34 and p. 93. Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.