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James Thomas Stroder Full Name: James Thomas Stroder Date of birth: September 13, 1872 Date of death: July 13, 1959 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 H 58 Jan 9, 1923 - Jan 13, 1925 38th   Democrat Frost / Navarro   Navarro   Biographical Notes and Resources top Other Resources James Thomas Stroder, birth date 9/13/1872, death date 7/13/1959, burial in Prairie Grove Cemetery, Emmett, Navarro County. Obituary, "Funeral Held for Former State Solon"; Obituary, James Thomas Stroder, Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light, 7/17/1959. Find a Grave. Photo, "Opposed to Teaching Evolution in School: James Thomas Stroder," 1/21/1923, p. 1. Galveston Daily News. Mentioned in FUNDAMENTALISM. "In 1923, state representatives S.J. Howeth of Johnson County and J.T. Stroder of Navarro County, a Baptist minister and Baptist layman, respectively, introduced the legislature's first antievolution bill." (HB 97, 38th Legislature, R.S.) Handbook of Texas Online. Stroder-Howeth antievolution bill mentioned, pp. 147-148. Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928, 1984. Mentioned as a leading proponent of anti-evolution bills in the 1920's, pp. 57-58 (HB 97, 38th Legislature, R.S.; HB 378, 39th Legislature, R.S.; HB 90, 41st Legislature, R.S.). Ledbetter, Patsy. "Defense of the Faith: J. Frank Norris and Texas Fundamentalism, 1920-1929," Arizona and the West, Vol. 15, No. 1, Spring, 1973, pp. 45-62. JSTOR. 38th Legislature (1923) - J.T. Stroder, postoffice Frost, nativity Texas, age 50 (born circa 1873), farmer, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual. Photographs Photograph. J.T. Stroder, 38th Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 38th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, south wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 38th R.S. - 1923 Agriculture   Federal Relations   Labor   Public Lands and Buildings

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