Terms of Service

• Senate, 55th ⁽²⁾ & 54th Legislatures
  1/11/1955 - 1/13/1959
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim R.S., elected 5/23/1957.
• Senate, 53rd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/13/1953 - 1/11/1955
  Democrat
  
• Senate, 52nd & 51st Legislatures
  1/11/1949 - 1/13/1953
  Democrat
  

(1) 53rd Legislature - Drawing for Terms of Office, 1/14/1953, pp. 16-17. Drew 2-year term. Senate Journal .
(2) Lawyer, ranchman. "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

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 53rd Legislature, R.S., SR 321, invitation to recite poems to the Senate. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 53rd Legislature, R.S., SR 278. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 54th Legislature, R.S., SR 347. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 55th Legislature, R.S., SR 536. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 73rd Legislature, R.S., SCR 92. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. Carlos Ashley, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Carlos Ashley, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Carlos Ashley, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Carlos Ashley, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Carlos Ashley, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Carlos Clinton Ashley, birth date 5/15/1904, death date 2/10/1993, photos, obituary, burial in Gray Cemetery, Cherokee, San Saba County. Find a Grave .
• Texas Poet Laureate, 1949-1951. Biographical sketch and poetry, "Ole Edgar Martin," "Values," "Human Nature," "The Old Town Clock," "I Built My House Upon a Hill," "Service," and "The Ticket," pp. 49-54. Poets Laureate of Texas, 1932-1966 1966.
• Memorial, February 1994, p. 204. Texas Bar Journal .

Committee Information

• 55th R.S. - 1957
• Agriculture and Livestock  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Finance  
• Game and Fish (Vice Chair) 
• Jurisprudence  
• Labor and Management Relations (Chair) 
• Oil and Gas  
• Poet Laureate Selection, Special  
• Privileges and Elections (Vice Chair) 
• State Affairs  
• Transportation  
• Water and Conservation  
• 54th R.S. - 1955
• Agriculture  
• Banking  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Contingent Expenses (Vice Chair) 
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Finance  
• Game and Fish (Vice Chair) 
• Judicial Districts  
• Labor  
• Oil, Gas and Conservation (Chair) 
• Poet Laureate Selection, Special  
• Privileges and Elections  
• State Affairs  
• State Planning Commission  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• Water Rights, Irrigation and Drainage  
• 53rd R.S. - 1953
• Assignment or Employment, Special  
• Banking  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Committee of the Whole Senate  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Contingent Expenses  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Finance (Vice Chair) 
• Game and Fish  
• Labor  
• Privileges and Elections (Vice Chair) 
• Public Health  
• State Affairs  
• State Highways and Motor Traffic (Chair) 
• State Planning Commission  
• 52nd R.S. - 1951
• Agricultural Affairs  
• Assignment, Special (Vice Chair) 
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Constitutional Amendments (Chair) 
• Contingent Expenses (Vice Chair) 
• Corporation Laws Revision, Special  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Game and Fish  
• Insurance  
• Interstate Cooperation  
• Labor  
• Oil, Gas and Conservation  
• Privileges and Elections  
• Public Buildings and Grounds (Vice Chair) 
• Public Health  
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Affairs  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• 51st R.S. - 1949
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Contingent Expenses (Vice Chair) 
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Election Laws Revision  
• Election Laws Study, Special  
• Finance  
• Game and Fish  
• Insurance  
• Privileges and Elections (Chair) 
• Public Buildings and Grounds  
• State Institutions and Departments  
• Stock and Stock Raising  
• Water Rights, Irrigation and Drainage