Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Robert Christian Eckhardt

Full Name: Robert Christian "Bob" Eckhardt
Birth date: July 16, 1913
Death date: November 13, 2001

Terms of Service

House, 59th Legislature
1/12/1965 - 1/10/1967
Democrat
House, 58th ⁽¹⁾ 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

(1) Sworn 11/16/1962. Oaths of Office .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

67th Legislature, R.S., HCR 50. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .

Photographs

Photograph. Bob Eckhardt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Bob Eckhardt, Texas Yearbook, 56th Legislature
Photograph. Bob Eckhardt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Bob Eckhardt, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Bob Eckhardt, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Robert J. Eckhardt mentioned in biographical sketch of his father, Robert C. Eckhardt and his mother, Caroline Kleberg Eckhardt. Robert J. is brother of Dr. Joseph C.A. Eckhardt of Austin. [Father of Robert Christian Eckhardt.] Biographical sketches and portraits, Volume III, pp. 1209-1213; Volume IV, pp. 1701-1702. A History of Texas and Texans 1916.
ECKHARDT, Robert Christian (1913-2001). Representative, TX. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
United States Army, World War II, 1942-1944. Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress .
Wurzbach family group sheet includes Robert [C.] Eckhardt, "state legislator and U.S. Congressman from Houston, Harris Co., TX," son of Joe Eckhardt and Norma Wurzbach Eckhardt. Relatives: Robert J. Eckhardt - uncle; Robert Christian Eckhardt - nephew. Descendants of Johann Jonathan Wurzbach 2007.
Wurzbach family group sheet. Relatives: Charles Louis Wurzbach - father; William A. Wurzbach - son. Relatives: William A. Wurzbach - uncle; Robert [Christian] Eckhardt - nephew. Descendants of Johann Jonathan Wurzbach 2007.
Biography in LRL collection, 342.73 EC57K. Eckhardt: There Once Was a Congressman From Texas 2007.
Robert C. Eckhardt, birth date 7/16/1913, death date 11/13/2001, last place of residence Travis County. FamilySearch United States Social Security Death Index .
Robert Christian Eckhardt (1913-2001), photo, burial in Austin Memorial Park, Austin, Travis County. Find a Grave .
Geneaology and biographical sketch of Charles L. Wurzbach. Daughter Norma was the mother of Robert Christian Eckhardt. Relatives: Charles Louis Wurzbach - grandfather; Robert Christian Eckhart - grandson, With the makers of San Antonio. . . HeritageQuest Online .
Siblings Rudolph, Marcellus, and Caroline Kleberg [Eckhardt] mentioned in biographical sketch of their father, Robert Justus Kleberg. Relatives: Rudolph and Marcellus Kleberg - granduncles; Robert Christian Eckhardt - grandnephew. Sons of Dewitt Colony Texas 1997.
Memorial, May 2002, p. 470. Texas Bar Journal .
United States Air Force. Memorial, May 2002, p. 470. Texas Bar Journal .
Biographical sketch, 86th Legislature. Relatives: Robert C. Eckhardt - father, Sarah Eckhardt - daughter. Texas Senate .
Book in LRL collection, 342.73 EC57. The Tides of Power: Conversations on the American Constitution between Bob Eckhardt, Member of Congress from Texas, and Charles L. Black, Jr., Sterling Professor of Law, Yale University 1976.