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Lawrence Westbrook

Lawrence Westbrook

Full Name: Lawrence Westbrook
Date of birth: August 23, 1889
Date of death: January 24, 1964

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 97-1 Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 10, 1933 42nd   Democrat Waco / McLennan   McLennan
H 97-1 Jan 8, 1929 - Jan 13, 1931 41st   Democrat Waco / McLennan   McLennan

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
42nd  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Waco / McLennan
Counties in district:
McLennan

Legislatures:
41st  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Waco / McLennan
Counties in district:
McLennan

Biographical Information

  • United States Army, Major Signal Corps, 2nd and 52nd Telegraph Battalion, World War I. Lawrence Westbrook, birth date 8/23/1889 in Belton, Texas. FamilySearch Texas World War I Records, 1917-1920 (Texas Military Forces Museum, Austin).
  • United States Army, Colonel, World War I & II, ARCOM. Military grave marker, Lawrence Westbrook, birth date 8/23/1889, death date 1/24/1964, burial in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery, San Antonio, Bexar County. Find a Grave.
  • United States Army, Major, World War I; Texas National Guard, Lieutenant Colonel; United States Army, Colonel, World War II. "Whereas, He entered military service in 1917 as a lieutenant, served 18 months in France, and was discharged as a major in 1919, becoming a lieutenant colonel and division signal officer in the Texas National Guard in 1923; and Whereas, Again in 1942, he returned to active military duty when he was commissioned a colonel and sent to the South Pacific, where he organized and administered a U.S. Joint Purchasing Board; he was transferred to Brazil to organize an Armed Forces Purchasing Board; after that tour he returned to Washington to become executive secretary of the Army Service Forces Committee on Materiel Demobilization; and on March 1, 1944, he was detailed as a special consultant on organization to the Director of Distribution, War Food Administration, following which he was assigned to the General Staff Corps as special assistant to the director of the special planning division; he was released from active duty on June 30, 1945." 59th Legislature, R.S., HSR 21. Resolutions - Memorial.

  • Obituary, "Col. Westbrook, Ex-Official, Dies in West Texas," 1/25/1964, p. 6. Dallas Morning News.
  • Lawrence Westbrook, birth date 8/23/1889 in Belton; death date 1/24/1964 in San Angelo, Tom Green County; retired military; served in World War I and World War II. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
  • Obituary and photo, "Col. L. Westbrook Dies Here Today," 1/24/1964, pp. 1A, 2A. "A former member of the Texas Legislature, 1928-32, Col. Westbrook was the first director of the Texas Relief Commission, having been named to that job in 1933." San Angelo Standard-Times.

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