Texas Legislators: Past & Present

William Clark McElwee

Full Name: William Clark McElwee
Birth date: March 16, 1843
Death date: July 6, 1919

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .

36th Legislature, 2nd C.S., 7/8/1919, p. 317. Death date 7/6/1919. Resolutions - Memorial .

McElwee, Father, birth date 3/16/1843, death date 7/5/1919, photo, burial in Mount Olive Cemetery, Bexar County. Find a Grave .
Portrait and biographical sketch, William Clark McElwee, pp. 300-301. Born 3/16/1843 in Knox County, Missouri; married Susan Savannah Trent 3/21/1866 in Bexar County, Texas. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Confederate States Army, member of Martin E. Green's brigade, General Price's army; 3rd Missouri light artillery under Captain Alexander Lesueur. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Obituary, "W.C. McElwee Dies Here: Former Representative Passes Away at County Home," San Antonio Express, 7/7/1919, p. 5, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Death date 7/6/1919. "W.C. McElwee, pioneer resident of Bexar County and former Representative to the State Legislature, died at 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon at his home at Adkins, this county." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .