Texas Legislators: Past & Present

James Nathan Browning

Full Name: James Nathan Browning
Birth date: March 13, 1850
Death date: November 9, 1921

Terms of Service

House, 22nd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
House, 20th ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ Legislature
1/11/1887 - 1/8/1889
Democrat
House, 19th Legislature
1/13/1885 - 1/11/1887
Democrat
House, 18th ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/9/1883 - 1/13/1885
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Clarendon, Donley County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004 2005.
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas 1883.
(4) James N. Browning, Mobeetie. Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) Mobeetie, Wheeler County. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
(6) "In 1888, he [Browning] moved from Mobeetie to Clarendon, Donley county." Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. James Nathan Browning, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. J.N. Browning, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.N. Browning, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Portrait and biographical sketch, Hon. James Nathan Browning, Volume I, pp. 272-273. A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas 1906.
Photo, Judge James Nathan Browning Historical Marker. Amarillo Public Library Photoarchive Collection 2004.
James N. Browning, birth date 3/13/1850 in Arkansas; death date 11/9/1921 in Amarillo, Potter County, Texas; attorney. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
James Nathan Browning, birth date 3/16/1850, death date 11/9/1921, burial in Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, Randall County. Find a Grave .
BROWNING, JAMES NATHAN (1850-1921). "In 1881 Browning resigned as county attorney and moved to Mobeetie, where he was appointed attorney of the Thirty-fifth Judicial District by Governor Oran M. Roberts." Handbook of Texas Online .
Mentioned in GRASS-LEASE FIGHT. Handbook of Texas Online .
History of cemetery, including biography of James Nathan Browning. Interment at Llano Cemetery, Amarillo, 11/12/1921. Llano Cemetery Association .
Biographical sketch, J.B. Browning, pp. 11-12. Personnel of the Texas State Government for 1885, 19th Legislature 1885.
Biographical sketch and portrait, James Nathan Browning, pp. 112-114. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Biographical sketch, J.N. Browning, pp. 289-290. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
20th Lieutenant Governor: James Nathan Browning. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Historical marker, Homesite of Judge James Nathan Browning, Amarillo, Potter County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
Biographical sketch, J.M. Browning, pp. 259-260. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83 1883.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Lieutenant Governor James N. Browning, pp. 2-4. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
Biographical sketch and portrait, J.N. Browning, Lieutenant Governor, pp. 35-36. Year Book for Texas, 1901 1902.