Margie E. Neal

Full Name: Mary Elizabeth "Margie" Neal
Date of birth: April 20, 1875
Date of death: December 19, 1971

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
S	2	Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 8, 1935	43rd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ 42nd ⁽³⁾ 43rd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾	Democrat	Carthage / Panola	Senate President Pro Tempore (43rd)	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby
S	2	Jan 11, 1927 - Jan 13, 1931	41st ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ 40th ⁽⁷⁾ 41st ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾	Democrat	Carthage / Panola	Senate President Pro Tempore (41st)	Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby

(1) 43rd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 2nd C.S., elected 2/27/1934. Senate Journal.
(2) 43rd Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/10/1933, p. 1. Senate Media.
(3) 42nd Legislature - Roll Call of Newly-Elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/13/1931, p. 1. Senate Journal.
(4) 41st Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 1st C.S., elected 5/21/1929. Senate Journal.
(5) "Fifteen State Senators Must Seek Re-Election in Summer", 1/3/1930, p. 2. Big Spring Daily Herald.
(6) 41st Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/8/1929, p. 1. Senate Journal.
(7) 40th Legislature - Certificate of New Senators and Roll Call of New Senators, 1/11/1927, p. 1. Senate Journal.

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Senate District 2
Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 8, 1935
Legislatures: 43rd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ 42nd ⁽³⁾ 43rd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾
Senate President Pro Tempore (41st)
(41st)
(41st)
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Carthage / Panola
Counties in district: Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby

Senate District 2
Jan 11, 1927 - Jan 13, 1931
Legislatures: 41st ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾ 40th ⁽⁷⁾ 41st ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾
Senate President Pro Tempore (41st)
(41st)
(41st)
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Carthage / Panola
Counties in district: Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby

Biographical Information top

Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

59th Legislature, R.S., SR 507, 90th birthday. First woman member of first Democratic Executive Committee (1918) and delegate to Democratic Convention in San Francisco the first year ladies were delegates (1920). Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
74th Legislature, R.S., SR 1069. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

Portrait and biography, Mary Elizabeth (Margie) Neal, pp. 81-84. Second woman elected to the Texas Legislature and first woman to serve in the Texas Senate. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999, 2000.
Photos and biography, Carthage, Texas, 2004.
A Guide to the Margie E. Neal Papers, 1875-1953, biographical sketch. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
Biographical sketch, "Margie E. Neal: First Woman Senator in Texas," by Walter L. Harris, Volume 11, pp. 40-50, Spring 1973. East Texas Historical Journal.
NEAL, MARGIE ELIZABETH (1875-1971). First woman in the Texas Senate. Handbook of Texas Online.
Biographical sketch, "Who's Who and What's What in the Texas Legislature," by Ed Kilman, 1/16/1929, p. 3. Houston Post-Dispatch.
Portrait and biographical sketch, from Votes for Women! The Women's Suffrage Movement in Texas, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate, 2019.
Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate, 2017.
Biographical sketch and photo, Women of the Texas Senate. Women's Suffrage in Texas: Struggle, the Story: Successes, Notable Firsts: Senators, Women of the Texas Senate, 2019.

Other Resources

"Lone Star Lore: Margie Neal," Volume 6, No. 17, August 15, 2002, p. 6. Capitol Clearinghouse Update.

Photographs

Photograph. Margie E. Neal, 43rd Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Margie E. Neal, 42nd Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Margie E. Neal, 41st Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. Margie Neal, 40th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

40th session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, west wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board.
41st session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board.
42nd session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board.
43rd session composite photo of Senate members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GE.C1). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

43rd R.S. - 1933 Agricultural Affairs Commerce and Manufacturing Contingent Expense Educational Affairs (Chair) Federal Relations Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate Judicial Districts Poet Laureate Selection, Special Privileges and Elections Public Buildings and Grounds Public Debts (Vice Chair) Public Health State Institutions and Departments State Penitentiaries Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate
42nd R.S. - 1931 Agricultural Affairs Commerce and Manufacturing Contingent Expense Educational Affairs (Chair) Federal Relations (Vice Chair) Judicial Districts Public Buildings and Grounds Public Debt (Vice Chair) Public Health State Institutions and Departments
41st R.S. - 1929 Agricultural Affairs Commerce and Manufacture Contingent Expenses Educational Affairs (Chair) Federal Relations Judicial Districts Public Buildings and Grounds Public Debts (Vice Chair) State Institutions and Departments
40th R.S. - 1927 Commerce and Manufactures Contingent Expenses Educational Affairs (Vice Chair) Federal Relations Judicial Districts Privileges and Elections (Chair) Public Buildings and Grounds Public Debts Rules (Chair) State Song (Chair)

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