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Selected newspaper articles

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 54th Legislature, R.S., HSR 261, extending congratulations of members of 54th Legislature to members who have ten years of service in the House. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
• 65th Legislature, R.S., HSR 84. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
• 66th Legislature, R.S., HR 120. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
• 67th Legislature, R.S., HR 283. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
• 67th Legislature, R.S., HR 295, honoring former speakers and certain members on the occasion of Speaker's Day. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.
• 80th Legislature, R.S., HCR 178. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.

Biographical Sketches

• 61st Speaker of the House of Representatives: Reuben Senterfitt. Photo and biographical sketch. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016, 2016.
• Memorial, September 2014, p. 747. Texas Bar Journal.

Military Service Notes

• United States Navy, Lieutenant (j.g.). Mentioned "among other legislators who are in the reserve" in "Call to Armed Services Faces Dozen in Texas Legislature," 1/14/1951. Dallas Morning News.
• United States Navy, Lieutenant Junior Grade, World War II. Military grave marker, Reuben E. Senterfitt, birth date 6/18/1917, death date 11/20/1913, burial in San Saba City Cemetery, San Saba County. Includes photograph, obituary. Find a Grave.
• United States Navy, World War II. "Rep. Reuben Senterfitt of San Saba, who was put on inactive duty by the Navy in 1945 and flew 8,000 miles from the Philippines to attend the session that year." Mentioned in "Field Artilleryman Flies Home to Take Post in Texas Legislature," 1/11/1951, profiling J.O. Duncan, Jr. Gilmer Mirror.
• United States Navy, Lieutenant Junior Grade, World War II. "Elected to the Texas Legislature at the age of 23, Mr. Senterfitt served continuously for seven terms, from 1941 to 1955; during that time he also served his country in the United States Navy, seeing duty in the South Pacific and rising from the rank of ensign to lieutenant junior grade; in 1945, he traveled halfway around the world to be present at the opening of the 49th Regular Session, . . ." 80th Legislature, R.S., HCR 178. Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary.

Other Resources

• Texas House Speakers Oral History Project - Reuben Senterfitt. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006.
• Mentioned in "Through the Years - San Saba Representatives in Legislative History," 4/1/1948, p. 9. San Saba News.
• Address of Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, made before the State Convention of the Texas Water Conservation Association in Dallas, Texas, Monday, October 12, 1953. Speaker of the House.
• Remarks made by Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, on April 29, 1953, before voting No on Senate Bill 24. Speaker of the House.
• Speech made by Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, before State Convention of Texas Federation of Women's Clubs in Austin, Texas, on November 12, 1953. Speaker of the House.
• The 53d Legislature in Retrospect, by Hon. Reuben Senterfitt, Speaker of the House of Representatives, Texas Trade Association Executives Convention in Galveston, June 19, 1953 (compliments of Walter E. Long). Speaker of the House.

Photographs

• Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, 53rd Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, 52nd Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, 51st Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Reuben Senterfitt, 50th Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, 49th Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. R.E. Senterfitt, 48th Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Reuben E. Senterfitt, 47th Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. Reuben Senterfitt, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 47th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, west wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.
• 48th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, west wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.
• 49th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GW.C1). State Preservation Board.
• 50th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GW.C1). State Preservation Board.
• 51st session composite photo of House members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GW.C1). State Preservation Board.
• 52nd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GW.C1). State Preservation Board.
• 53rd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GW.C1). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

51st R.S. - 1949 Agriculture   Judiciary   Labor   Local and Uncontested Bills   State Affairs (Vice Chair)

50th R.S. - 1947 Congressional and Legislative Districts   Judiciary   Labor   Military and Veterans Affairs (Chair)

49th R.S. - 1945 Congressional and Legislative Districts   Constitutional Amendments   Judiciary and Uniform State Laws   Military Affairs (Chair)  State Affairs

48th R.S. - 1943 Congressional and Legislative Districts (Chair)  Constitutional Amendments   Criminal Jurisprudence   Judiciary and Uniform State Laws   State Affairs

47th R.S. - 1941 Constitutional Amendments   Judiciary   Public Lands and Buildings   State Eleemosynary and Reformatory Institutions