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Margie E. Neal Full Name: Mary Elizabeth "Margie" Neal Date of birth: April 20, 1875 Date of death: December 19, 1971 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Legislation Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 2 Jan 13, 1931 - Jan 8, 1935 43rd (1) (2)   42nd (3)   43rd (1) (2)   Democrat Carthage / Panola Senate President Pro Tempore (43rd)   Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby S 2 Jan 11, 1927 - Jan 13, 1931 41st (4) (5) (6)   40th (7)   41st (4) (5) (6)   Democrat Carthage / Panola Senate President Pro Tempore (41st)   Gregg, Harrison, Panola, Rusk, Shelby (1) 43rd Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 2nd C.S., elected 2/27/1934. Senate Journal. (2) 43rd Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/10/1933, p. 1. Senate Media. (3) 42nd Legislature - Roll Call of Newly-Elected Senators, oath of office administered, 1/13/1931, p. 1. Senate Journal. (4) 41st Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, Ad Interim 1st C.S., elected 5/21/1929. Senate Journal. (5) "Fifteen State Senators Must Seek Re-Election in Summer", 1/3/1930, p. 2. Big Spring Daily Herald. (6) 41st Legislature - Roll Call of Holdover Senators, 1/8/1929, p. 1. Senate Journal. (7) 40th Legislature - Certificate of New Senators and Roll Call of New Senators, 1/11/1927, p. 1. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Selected Newspaper articles Resolutions and Journal entries 59th Legislature, R.S., SR 507, 90th birthday. First woman member of first Democratic Executive Committee (1918) and delegate to Democratic Convention in San Francisco the first year ladies were delegates (1920). Resolutions - Congratulatory and Honorary. 74th Legislature, R.S., SR 1069. Resolutions - Memorial. Biographical Sketches Portrait and biography, Mary Elizabeth (Margie) Neal, pp. 81-84. Second woman elected to the Texas Legislature and first woman to serve in the Texas Senate. Capitol Women: Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999, 2000. Photos and biography, Carthage, Texas, 2004. A Guide to the Margie E. Neal Papers, 1875-1953, biographical sketch. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin, 2006. Biographical sketch, "Margie E. Neal: First Woman Senator in Texas," by Walter L. Harris, Volume 11, pp. 40-50, Spring 1973. East Texas Historical Journal. NEAL, MARGIE ELIZABETH (1875-1971). First woman in the Texas Senate. Handbook of Texas Online. Portrait and biographical sketch, from Votes for Women! The Women's Suffrage Movement in Texas, Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate, 2019. Biographical sketch and photo. Women of the Texas Senate, 2017. Other Resources "Lone Star Lore: Margie Neal," Volume 6, No. 17, August 15, 2002, p. 6. Capitol Clearinghouse Update. Photographs Photograph. Margie E. Neal, 43rd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Margie E. Neal, 42nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Margie E. Neal, 41st Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. Margie Neal, 40th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 40th session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, west wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 41st session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 42nd session composite photo of Senate members (3rd floor back hall corridor, east wall. 3E.C2). State Preservation Board. 43rd session composite photo of Senate members (Ground floor corridor, south wall. GE.C1). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 43rd R.S. - 1933 Agricultural Affairs   Commerce and Manufacturing   Contingent Expense   Educational Affairs (Chair)  Federal Relations   Highway Department Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate   Judicial Districts   Poet Laureate Selection, Special   Privileges and Elections   Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Debts (Vice Chair)  Public Health   State Institutions and Departments   State Penitentiaries   Texas Rehabilitation and Relief Commission Investigation, Committee of the Whole Senate   42nd R.S. - 1931 Agricultural Affairs   Commerce and Manufacturing   Contingent Expense   Educational Affairs (Chair)  Federal Relations (Vice Chair)  Judicial Districts   Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Debt (Vice Chair)  Public Health   State Institutions and Departments   41st R.S. - 1929 Agricultural Affairs   Commerce and Manufacture   Contingent Expenses   Educational Affairs (Chair)  Federal Relations   Judicial Districts   Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Debts (Vice Chair)  State Institutions and Departments   40th R.S. - 1927 Commerce and Manufactures   Contingent Expenses   Educational Affairs (Vice Chair)  Federal Relations   Judicial Districts   Privileges and Elections (Chair)  Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Debts   Rules (Chair)  State Song (Chair)

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