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Will D. Suiter Full Name: William David "Will" Suiter Date of birth: February 10, 1871 Date of death: June 25, 1963 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 7 Jan 14, 1919 - Jan 9, 1923 37th (1)   36th (2)   Democrat Winnsboro / Wood   Camp, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood S 7 Jan 12, 1915 - Jan 14, 1919 35th (3) (4)   34th (5)   Democrat Winnsboro / Wood Senate President Pro Tempore (35th)   Camp, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood (1) 37th Legislature - 1/11/1921, pp. 1-2, listed in Roll Call of Holdover Senators/Absent. Senate Journal. (2) 36th Legislature - 1/14/1919, pp. 1-2, listed as "member-elect" in List of State Senators Elected at the General Election Held November 5th, 1918. Senate Journal. (3) 35th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/18/1917, 1st C.S. Senate Journal. (4) 35th Legislature - 1/9/1917, pp. 1-2, listed in Roll Call of Holdover Senators. Senate Journal. (5) 34th Legislature - 1/12/1915, pp. 1-2, listed as elected on November 3, 1914. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches Photo and biographical sketch (Elizabeth Suiter). Relatives: William D. Suiter - father, Elizabeth Suiter - daughter. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999, 2000. Biographical sketch, Volume IV, William David Suiter, pp. 431-432. Birth date 2/10/1871. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers, 1940. William D. "Will" Suiter, birth date 2/10/1871, death date 6/25/1963, biographical sketch, certificate of death, interment in Lee Cemetery, Winnsboro, Wood County. Find a Grave. Biographical sketch, Senate of the 35th Legislature, "A Look at the Affairs of State: The Real Names and Addresses of Thirty-one Senators With Additional Facts," 3/22/1917, p. 6. Houston Post. Memorial, September 1963, p. 805. William David Suiter. Texas Bar Journal. Other Resources Mentioned in Sabine Royalty Corporation, Tyler, Texas, in The State of Texas Book: One Hundred Years of Progress, p. 406. HeritageQuest Online. Lists date of birth as 2/10/1871. RootsWeb.com Internet genealogical service. Photographs Photograph. Will D. Suiter, 34th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Will D. Suiter, 35th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Will D. Suiter, 36th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Will D. Suiter, 37th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 34th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, south wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 35th session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, west wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 36th session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, west wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 37th session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, west wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 37th R.S. - 1921 Agricultural Affairs   Contingent Expense (Vice Chair)  Criminal Jurisprudence (Vice Chair)  Educational Affairs   Educational Affairs Subcommittee on Corpus Christi School Census   Nominations by the Governor   Public Debts, Claims and Accounts   Senatorial Districts (Chair)  36th R.S. - 1919 Agricultural Affairs   Blue Ridge Farm Purchase, Investigate (Chair)  Civil Jurisprudence   Claims and Accounts   Contingent Expense (Vice Chair)  Criminal Jurisprudence (Chair)  Governor's Nominations   Insurance and Banking   Labor   Rules   35th R.S. - 1917 Agricultural Affairs   Civil Jurisprudence   Constitutional Amendments   Criminal Jurisprudence   Investigation of Expenditures on Capitol and Disloyalty of Certain State Employees (Chair)  Judicial Districts   Labor   Military Affairs   Public Debt, Claims and Accounts   Towns and City Corporations   34th R.S. - 1915 Agricultural Affairs   Federal Relations (Chair)  Judicial Districts   Judiciary No. 1   Judiciary No. 2   Labor   Military Affairs   Public Debts, Claims and Accounts   State Penitentiaries   Stock and Stock Raising

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