Terms of Service

• Senate, 50th & 49th Legislatures
  1/9/1945 - 1/11/1949
  Democrat
  Senate President Pro Tempore, Regular Session, elected 1/14/1947.
• Senate, 48th & 47th Legislatures
  1/14/1941 - 1/9/1945
  Democrat
  
• House, 43rd ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  1/10/1933 - 1/8/1935
  Democrat
  
• House, 42nd Legislature
  1/13/1931 - 1/10/1933
  Democrat
  

(1) Name, postoffice, occupation, association membership, relationship to persons in state or county government. Resolution, 9/18/1933, pp. 45-48, and Questionnaire Authorized and Directed by Resolution Adopted by the House, 10/11/1933, pp. 588-601. House Journal .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Selected Newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 65th Legislature, R.S., SR 127 and SR 123. Ben Ramsey's retirement from Railroad Commission of Texas and providing for bust of Ben Ramsey, 2/7/1977. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 56th Legislature, 3rd C.S., SR 48. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 57th Legislature, 3rd C.S., SR 16. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 67th Legislature, R.S., SCR 7. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 65th Legislature, R.S., SR 123. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary .
• 69th Legislature, R.S., HCR 140. Resolutions - Memorial .
• 69th Legislature, R.S., memorial invocation, address by President of the Senate, SR 386, 5/8/1985, pp. 936-939. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Ben Ramsey, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

• Benjamin Turner Ramsey (1903-1985), burial in Liberty Hill Cemetery, Bland Lake, San Augustine County. Find a Grave .
• RAMSEY, BEN (1903-1985). Handbook of Texas Online .
• 34th Lieutenant Governor: Ben Ramsey. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
• Railroad Commissioners Past through Present, with dates of service. Railroad Commission of Texas .
• Memorial, October 1985, p. 1163. Texas Bar Journal .

Committee Information

• 50th R.S. - 1947
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Commerce and Manufacturing (Chair) 
• Finance  
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Judicial Districts (Chair) 
• Labor  
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Health  
• Rules  
• State Affairs (Vice Chair) 
• Student Activities at A&M College, Investigation, Special  
• 49th R.S. - 1945
• Aeronautics  
• Agriculture  
• Civil Jurisprudence  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Criminal Jurisprudence (Vice Chair) 
• Enrolled Bills  
• Finance  
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Insurance  
• Labor  
• Nominations of the Governor  
• Oil, Gas and Conservation  
• Penitentiaries  
• Poet Laureate Selection, Special  
• Public Printing  
• Representative Districts (Chair) 
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Affairs  
• 48th R.S. - 1943
• Commerce and Manufacturing  
• Congressional Districts  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Criminal Jurisprudence  
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Insurance  
• Labor (Vice Chair) 
• Oil, Gas and Conservation  
• Representative Districts (Chair) 
• Senatorial Districts  
• State Affairs  
• State Penitentiaries  
• 47th R.S. - 1941
• Commerce and Manufactures  
• Constitutional Amendments  
• Counties and County Boundaries (Chair) 
• Criminal Jurisprudence (Vice Chair) 
• Highways and Motor Traffic  
• Insurance  
• Judicial Districts (Chair) 
• Penitentiaries  
• Public Welfare, Investigation, Special  
• Representative Districts  
• State Affairs  
• Towns and City Corporations  
• 43rd R.S. - 1933
• Appropriations  
• Congressional and Legislative Districts (Chair) 
• Liquor Traffic  
• Privileges, Suffrage and Elections  
• Public Lands and Buildings  
• 42nd R.S. - 1931
• Appropriations  
• Congressional Districts  
• Examination of Comptroller's and Treasurer's Accounts  
• Judicial Districts  
• Public Lands and Buildings