J.D. Newton

Jasper Dorsey Newton

Full Name: Jasper Dorsey Newton
Date of birth: July 30, 1867
Date of death: July 28, 1935

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 2 Jan 14, 1919 - Jan 11, 1921 36th   Democrat Bloomburg / Cass   Cass

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House District 2
Jan 14, 1919 - Jan 11, 1921
Legislatures: 36th  
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Bloomburg / Cass
Counties in district: Cass

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Other Resources

  • Census of 1900 - Jasper Newton, Cass County, age 33, born July 1867 in Georgia, farmer, wife Anna.
    Census of 1910 - Jasper D. Newton, Cass County, age 42, born circa 1868 in Georgia, farmer, wife Annie. FamilySearch. 1900 1910
  • J.D. Newton, birth date 7/30/1868 in Georgia, death date 7/28/1935 in Bloomberg, Cass County, Texas, wife Annie Newton. [Note: Age listed as 67 years, 11 months, 28 years; birth date 7/30/1867.] FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
  • J. Dorsey Newton (1867-1935), burial in Salem Cemetery, Bloomburg, Cass County. Find a Grave.
  • Obituary, "Father of Hunt-co Sheriff Is Dead," 7/29/1935, p. 3. "J.D. Newton, father of Sheriff D.M. Newton of Hunt-co, and a former member of the Texas state legislature," death date Sunday, 7/28/1935. Greenville Evening Banner.
  • 36th Legislature (1919) - J.D. Newton, postoffice Bloomburg, nativity Georgia, age 52 (born circa 1867), 33 years in Texas, farmer and merchant, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual.

Photographs

  • Photograph. J.D. Newton, 36th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

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36th R.S. - 1919
Agriculture  
Confederate Home, Investigate  
Penitentiaries  
Revenue and Taxation  
State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions  

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