Gary Bonner Sanford

Full Name: Gary Bonner Sanford
Date of birth: June 30, 1890
Date of death: December 21, 1966

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information
Legislation

Terms of Service top

Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Counties in District
H	8	Jan 13, 1925 - Jan 11, 1927	39th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Democrat	Timpson / Rusk	Rusk
H	8	Jan 9, 1923 - Jan 13, 1925	38th ⁽⁴⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ ⁽⁶⁾	Democrat	Timpson / Rusk	Rusk
H	6	May 6, 1922 - Jan 9, 1923	37th ⁽⁷⁾ ⁽⁸⁾ ⁽⁹⁾ ⁽¹⁰⁾ ⁽¹¹⁾ ⁽¹²⁾	Democrat	Timpson / Rusk	Rusk

(1) Timpson. House Journal.
(2) Timpson, Rusk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(3) Garrison. Texas Legislative Manual.
(4) Timpson. House Journal.
(5) Timpson, Rusk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(6) Garrison. Texas Legislative Manual.
(7) District 6 composed of the county of Rusk, Acts 1911, 32nd Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 10, Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950.
(8) Census of 1920 - Gary Sanford listed in the Charles E. Sanford household in Arlam [incorporated place: voting precinct 26, Caledonia], Rusk County. FamilySearch.
(9) TIMPSON, TEXAS. "Timpson is on the Southern Pacific Railroad at the junction of U.S. highways 87, 84, and 59, fifteen miles northwest of Center in northwestern Shelby County." Handbook of Texas Online.
(10) Gary B. Sanford, in special election 5/6/1922, succeeded Lumpkin Webb, died after 2nd Called Session [sic]. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(11) Timpson, Rusk County. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
(12) Assumed Democrat based on listing as Democrat in 38th and 39th Legislatures. Texas Legislative Manual.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, Capt. Thomas Smith Garrison, Volume III, pp. 1410-1411. Born 5/17/1837 in Carroll County, Georgia. Relatives: Caleb Garrison and Thomas Smith Garrison - brothers. Relatives: Thomas Smith Garrison - grandfather; Gary Bonner Sanford [son of Adele Bonner Garrison Sanford] - grandson. Relatives: Caleb Garrison - great-uncle; Gary Bonner Sanford - great-nephew. A History of Texas and Texans, 1914.
Obituaries, Gary Sanford, 12/22/1966, p. 10, and 12/23/1966, p. 12. Gary Bonner Sanford, former State Senator, grandson of Capt. T.S. Garrison, veteran of World War I. "The town of Gary was named for Gary Sanford." Marshall News Messenger.

Military Service Notes

United States Army, Private, University of Texas Training Detachment to discharge. Gary B. Sanford, inducted at Rusk, Texas, 6/26/1918, birthplace Simpson [Timpson], Texas, age 27 11/12 years. FamilySearch Texas, World War I Records, 1917-1920 (Texas Military Forces Museum, Austin).
Gary Bonner Sanford, birth date 6/30/1890, home address and birthplace Timpson, Texas, farmer, draft registration 6/5/1917 in Rusk County. FamilySearch United States World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918.
United States Army, Private, Company E, 18th Infantry, World War I. Gary Bomer [sic] Sanford, Timpson, Texas, birth date 6/30/1890, death date 12/21/1966, enlisted June 1918, discharged December 1918. FamilySearch United States, Veterans Administration Master Index, 1917-1940, 1985.

Other Resources

Gary Bonner Sanford, birth date 6/30/1890 in Timpson, death date 12/21/1966 in Jasper County, usual residence in Timpson, Rusk County, retired government employee, served in World War I. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
Gary B. Sanford (1890-1966), burial in Caledonia Cemetery, Caledonia, Rusk County. Find a Grave.
Calculated relationship based on James Freeborn Garrison, Susan Mandeville Garrison, and Edgar Hubbard Carter family group sheets. Relatives: Edgar Hubbard Carter and Gary Bonner Sanford - cousins once removed. Garrison-Logan Family History & Genealogy, 2001. Garrison-Logan Family History & Genealogy Garrison-Logan Family History & Genealogy
GARY, TX. In 1898, Sanford's maternal grandfather helped to establish a settlement between Timpson and Carthage; the new town was named Gary, Texas, "in honor of Garrison's grandson." Handbook of Texas Online.

Photographs

Photograph. Gary B. Sanford, 39th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. G.B. Sanford, 38th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

37th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, west wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
38th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, south wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
39th session composite photo of House members (3rd floor back hall, east wall. 3W.C1). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

39th R.S. - 1925 Appropriations (Vice Chair) Banks and Banking Game and Fisheries Highways and Motor Traffic Insurance
38th R.S. - 1923 Appropriations Engrossed Bills Game and Fisheries Penitentiaries Privileges, Suffrage and Elections Roads, Bridges and Ferries

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