Del W. Harrington
Full Name: Del W. Harrington
Date of birth: May 14, 1867
Date of death: August 19, 1941
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Terms of Service top
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Legislatures |
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Sep 11, 1914 - Jan 12, 1915
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33rd
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Democrat
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Dalhart / Dallam
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Carson, Dallam, Hansford, Hartley, Hutchinson, Moore, Oldham, Potter, Sherman
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(1)
Assumed Democrat; El Paso Herald-Post report of election results, Monday, 7/25/1938, showing Del W. Harrington ran for Justice of the Peace in 1938 in the Democratic primary (Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1, Place 2).
Ancestry.com.
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"Colquitt Conceives Central Bank," 9/12/1914, pp. 1 and 10, mentions oath of office administered to "L.W. Herrington of Amarillo, succeeding Hilton R. Greer" (end p. 10).
Galveston Daily News.
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Dalhart, the county seat of Dallam County, straddles the border of Dallam and Hartley counties in the northwest corner of the Texas Panhandle.
Handbook of Texas Online.
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33rd Legislature, 2nd C.S. - Oaths of Office Administered, Del W. Harrington and Henry Sackett, 9/11/1914, p. 165.
House Journal.
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Dalhart, Dallam County.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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Hilton R. Greer, sworn 7/22/1913, succeeded C. Herbert Walker, resigned 6/8/1913. Greer resigned 8/18/1914, succeeded by Del W. Harrington in special election 9/8/1914, sworn 9/11/1914.
Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
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Biographical Notes and Resources top
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47th Legislature, 1st C.S., HSR 26, 9/19/1941, pp. 245-246. "At an early age he came to the Panhandle of Texas, and settled at Dalhart. . ."
Resolutions - Memorial.
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Memorial, December 1941, p. 791. "After practicing law in Dalhart for several years, Judge Harrington moved to Amarillo, where he became associated with A.A. Lumpkin. He gave up private practice for a short time to serve out an unexpired term in the Legislature. Leaving the Panhandle in 1915, he went to El Paso . . . Fellow attorneys . . . in January, 1939, drafted him for the office of justice of the peace."
Texas Bar Journal.
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Interment in Masonic Lodge Cemetery, El Paso County. Del W. Harrington Lot 135 - 5, 1867-1941, burial date 8/22/1941, Masonic 71; and Mrs. Mary J. Harrington, Lot 24 - 7, borh 3/7/1878, died 3/2/1928, burial date 3/6/1928, Masonic 72.
TXGenWeb Project.
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33rd session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
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