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Offa Shivers Lattimore Full Name: Offa Shivers Lattimore Date of birth: January 10, 1865 Date of death: October 27, 1937 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 30 Jan 12, 1915 - Jan 14, 1919 35th (1)   34th (2)   Democrat Fort Worth / Tarrant   Hood, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant S 30 Jan 10, 1911 - Jan 12, 1915 33rd (3) (4)   32nd (5) (6)   Democrat Fort Worth / Tarrant Senate President Pro Tempore (33rd)   Hood, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant (1) 35th Legislature - 1/9/1917, pp. 1-2, listed in Roll Call of Holdover Senators. Senate Journal. (2) 34th Legislature - 1/12/1915, pp. 1-2, listed as elected on November 3, 1914. Senate Journal. (3) 33rd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 1/14/1913, Regular Session. Senate Journal. (4) 33rd Legislature - 1/14/1913, pp. 1-4, listed in Roll Call with "holdover Senators." Senate Journal. (5) 32nd Legislature - 1/10/1911, pp. 1-2, listed in Roll Call as "Senator-elect." Senate Journal. (6) 33rd Legislature - 1/14/1913, p. 3. Elected on 11/8/1910, for a full period of four years (listed with "hold over senators"). Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Biographical Sketches LATTIMORE, OFFA SHIVERS (1865-1937). Handbook of Texas Online. Biography of O.S. Lattimore in History of Texas, author Sam Houston (lacks title page), publisher unknown, pp. 654-656. HeritageQuest Online. 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. Biographical sketch and portrait, Offa Shivers Lattimore, Judge, Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1919-1937. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2004. Biography of O.S. and his father, John Lee Lattimore, p. 54. Terrells: Eighty-Five Years Texas from Indians to Atomic Bomb, 1948. Memorial, February 1938, p. 39. Texas Bar Journal. Other Resources Portrait. Texas Jurists, 1836 - 1936, 1936. History of the Elizabeth Patton Crockett monument in Acton, TX. Legislation establishing the monument introduced by Senators O.S. Lattimore and Pierce Ward. TexasEscapes.com. Lattimore, Offa Shivers. Texas State Cemetery. Photographs Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, Texas Jurists Collection Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, 32nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, 33rd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, 34th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. O.S. Lattimore, 35th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 32nd session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 33rd session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, east wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 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. Committee Informationtop 35th R.S. - 1917 Central Investigating Committee   Civil Jurisprudence   Commerce and Manufactures   Criminal Jurisprudence   Educational Affairs   Formulate the Rules of Procedure in the Trial Upon the Articles of Impeachment of Governor James B. Ferguson, Governor.   Internal Improvements   Labor   Nominations of the Governor   Rules   State Affairs   Towns and City Corporations   34th R.S. - 1915 Commerce and Manufactures (Chair)  Constitutional Amendments   Judiciary No. 1   Labor   Privileges and Elections   Senatorial Districts   Stock and Stock Raising   Towns and City Corporations   Treasurer's and Comptroller's Departments   33rd R.S. - 1913 Attorney General's Department, Investigate   Commerce and Manufactures   Finance   Internal Improvements   Judiciary No. 1   Labor   Meningitis Outbreak, Investigate   Privileges and Elections   Rules (Chair)  Senatorial Districts   Towns and City Corporations   32nd R.S. - 1911 Commerce and Manufactures (Chair)  Constitutional Amendments   Insurance, Statistics and History   Internal Improvements   Judiciary No. 1   Labor   Military Affairs   Mining and Irrigation   Representative Districts   Retail Liquor License, Special   Stock and Stock Raising   Towns and City Corporations   Treasurer's and Comptroller's Departments

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