Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Alonzo Wesley Jamison

Full Name: Alonzo Wesley Jamison, Jr.
Birth date: April 12, 1918
Death date: October 29, 2011

Terms of Service

House, 60th Legislature
1/10/1967 - 1/14/1969
Democrat
House, 59th Legislature
1/12/1965 - 1/10/1967
Democrat
House, 58th Legislature
1/8/1963 - 1/12/1965
Democrat
House, 57th Legislature
1/10/1961 - 1/8/1963
Democrat
House, 56th Legislature
1/13/1959 - 1/10/1961
Democrat
House, 55th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/8/1957 - 1/13/1959
Democrat
House, 54th Legislature
1/11/1955 - 1/8/1957
Democrat

(1) Stock farmer. "55th Texas Legislature: 20 Senators, 62 Representatives of 55th Legislature Are Lawyers; Other Legislators Have Varied Occupations, Jobs," Volume 20, Number 1, January 1957, pp. 6, 7, 48. Texas Bar Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Photographs

Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, Jr., State Preservation Board
Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, Jr., State Preservation Board
Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, Jr., State Preservation Board
Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, Jr., State Preservation Board
Photograph. A.W. Jamison, Jr., Texas Yearbook, 56th Legislature
Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Alonzo W. Jamison, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

United States Army, World War II; United States Army Reserve, Colonel. "He served during World War II as an officer in anti-aircraft artillery unit in North Africa, Sicily, Italy, France and Germany, and was awarded the Bronze Star. He continued to be active in the U.S. Army Reserves and retired as a Colonel in 1974." Obituary, 11/6/2011. Dallas Morning News .
Alonzo Wesley Jamison, Jr., birth date 4/12/1918, residence in Denton from 1993-2009. FamilySearch United States Public Records, 1970-2009 .
Alonzo Wesley Jamison, Jr., birth date 4/12/1918 in obituary (4/13/1918 on family cenotaph), death date 10/29/2011, photo, obituary, cenotaph in Valley View Cemetery, Valley View, Cooke County. Find a Grave .
"Sine Die" song (to the tune of "This Ole House"), 1959 version and undated version, ghost-written for Alonzo Jamison ("Mrs. Jamison is thought to be the ghost"). Memo File .
Oral history interviews available in Oral History Collection, University of North Texas .
Mentioned in Curtis Bishop, "Historic Names in the 54th: Descendants of many who made early Texas history carry on family traditions of service to their State as members of the 54th Legislature," Volume XVI, Number 1, June 1955, pp. 37, 38, 40. Texas Parade .