Robert Wilburn Calvert

Full Name: Robert Wilburn Calvert
Date of birth: February 22, 1905
Date of death: October 6, 1994

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information
Legislation

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	60	Jan 12, 1937 - Jan 10, 1939	45th	Democrat	Hillsboro / Hill	Speaker	Hill, Navarro
H	60	Jan 8, 1935 - Jan 12, 1937	44th	Democrat	Hillsboro / Hill		Hill, Navarro
H	60	Jan 10, 1933 - Jan 8, 1935	43rd ⁽¹⁾	Democrat	Hillsboro / Hill		Hill, Navarro

(1) Name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, relationship to persons in state or county government. Resolution, 9/18/1933, pp. 45-48, and Questionnaire Authorized and Directed by Resolution Adopted by the House, 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal.

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House District 60
Jan 12, 1937 - Jan 10, 1939
Legislatures: 45th
Speaker
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Hillsboro / Hill
Counties in district: Hill, Navarro

House District 60
Jan 8, 1935 - Jan 12, 1937
Legislatures: 44th
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Hillsboro / Hill
Counties in district: Hill, Navarro

House District 60
Jan 10, 1933 - Jan 8, 1935
Legislatures: 43rd ⁽¹⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Hillsboro / Hill
Counties in district: Hill, Navarro

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Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

62nd Legislature, 3rd C.S., HCR 5. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
65th Legislature, R.S., HSR 79. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
66th Legislature, R.S., HR 124. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
67th Legislature, R.S., HR 280. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
67th Legislature, R.S., HR 295, honoring former speakers and certain members on the occasion of Speaker's Day. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
74th Legislature, R.S., HCR 3. Resolutions - Memorial.
74th Legislature, R.S., HR 1059. Memorializing 35 members who died in the past two years. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

Memoirs in LRL collection, 923.4 C139. Here Comes the Judge: From State Home to State House: Memoirs, 1977.
Biographical sketch and portrait, Robert Wilburn Calvert, Associate Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1950-1961; Chief Justice, Texas Supreme Court, 1961-1972. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004.
54th Speaker of the House of Representatives: Robert W. Calvert. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
Memorial, December 1994, p. 1244. Texas Bar Journal.
Calvert, Robert Wilburn. Texas State Cemetery.

Other Resources

Mentioned in "Speaker's Office Now a Prize Plum," 9/15/1980. Dallas Morning News.
Occupational and biographical information - 45th Legislature, Chapter 1, "The Big Job," pp. 1-17. The Legislature and the Texas People, 1937.

Photographs

Photograph. R.W. Calvert, 45th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Robert W. Calvert, 44th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Robert W. Calvert, 43rd Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Robert W. Calvert, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. Robert Wilburn Calvert, Texas Jurists Collection

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

43rd session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.
44th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.
45th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, west wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

44th R.S. - 1935 Banks and Banking (Chair) Congressional and Legislative Districts House Bill 8 Irregularities, Special Judiciary State Affairs State Departments and Permanent School Fund, Special
43rd R.S. - 1933 Alleged Assault on Representative Burns, Investigate, Special Criminal Jurisprudence Judiciary Privileges, Suffrage and Elections State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions (Vice Chair)

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