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McDonald Meachum

James McDonald Meachum

Full Name: James McDonald Meachum
Date of birth: August 5, 1876
Date of death: June 20, 1957

Terms of Service

Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
S 15 Jan 12, 1909 - Oct 2, 1911 32nd (1) (2)   31st (3) (4)   Democrat Navasota / Grimes   Grimes, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker
S 15 Jan 10, 1905 - Jan 12, 1909 30th (5) (6)   29th (7)   Democrat Navasota / Grimes Senate President Pro Tempore (30th)   Grimes, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker
H 44 Jan 13, 1903 - Jan 10, 1905 28th   Democrat Navasota / Grimes   Grimes

Terms of service footnotes


(1) Meachum resigned 10/2/1911. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. ↩
(2) 32nd Legislature - Roll Call of holdover Senators, 1/10/1911, p. 1. Senate Journal. ↩
(3) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture). ↩
(4) 31st Legislature - Roll Call of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/12/1909, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. ↩
(5) 30th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/12/1907, Regular Session. Senate Journal. ↩
(6) 30th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1907, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. ↩
(7) 29th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1905, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. ↩

Terms of Service

Legislatures:
32nd (1) (2)   31st (3) (4)  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Navasota / Grimes
Counties in district:
Grimes, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker

Legislatures:
30th (5) (6)   29th (7)  
Leadership role:
Senate President Pro Tempore (30th)
(29th)
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Navasota / Grimes
Counties in district:
Grimes, Leon, Madison, Montgomery, Polk, San Jacinto, Walker

Legislatures:
28th  
Party:
Democrat
Home City/County:
Navasota / Grimes
Counties in district:
Grimes

Terms of service notes


(1) Meachum resigned 10/2/1911. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005. ↩
(2) 32nd Legislature - Roll Call of holdover Senators, 1/10/1911, p. 1. Senate Journal. ↩
(3) Democrat; roster of members of the 31st Legislature with biographical and party information. "Year Book 1909," Number 13, May-June 1910, pp. 408-415. Bulletin (Texas Department of Agriculture). ↩
(4) 31st Legislature - Roll Call of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/12/1909, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. ↩
(5) 30th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 4/12/1907, Regular Session. Senate Journal. ↩
(6) 30th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1907, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. ↩
(7) 29th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1905, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. ↩

Biographical Information

  • Biographical sketch, McDonald Meachum, Texas Under Many Flags, 1930, Volume II, p. 168. (Created 7/24/2009.) HeritageQuest Online.
  • Biographical sketch, McDonald Meachum, Volume IV, p. 1699. Born 8/5/1876 in Anderson, Grimes County. A History of Texas and Texans, 1914.
  • Memorial, 10/22/1957, p. 605. Texas Bar Journal.
  • Portraits and biographical sketches, "Our Friends in the Legislature," Volume V, No. 1, May 1909, pp. 14-17. Texas State Journal of Medicine, 1905.

  • J. McDonald Meachum in "Men who have represented Grimes County in the House of Representatives/State Senate, 1846-1931," p. 208. Early History of Grimes County, 1930.
  • Includes brief discussion of East Texas Senators McDonald Meachum and William J. Greer, Volume III, Chapter XXXIII, "Some East Texas banking history," p. 1381. East Texas: Its History and Its Makers, 1940.
  • James M. Meachum, death date 6/20/1957 in Hartford, Connecticut. FamilySearch. Connecticut Death Index, 1949-2001
  • James McDonald Meachum, birth date 8/5/1876, death date 6/20/1957, burial in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, Harris County. Find a Grave.
  • Obituary, "Former State Sen. Meachum Dies at 80," 6/21/1957, p. 1. Houston Chronicle.
  • McDonald J. Meachum. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
  • McDonald J. Meachum portrait, sponsored SB 111, 31st R.S., professional nursing; Lamar Zivley portrait, author of HB 47, 52nd R.S., Texas Board of Vocational Nurse Examiners. "Texas Board of Nursing: 1909-2009," Vol. 40, No. 1, pp. 1, 4. Texas Board of Nursing Bulletin.

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