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James Rowland Gough Full Name: James Rowland Gough Date of birth: December 31, 1860 Date of death: November 19, 1916 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 5 Jan 12, 1897 - Jan 8, 1901 25th (2) (3)   26th (1)   Democrat McKinney / Collin Senate President Pro Tempore (25th)   Collin, Hunt H 14 Jan 8, 1895 - Jan 12, 1897 24th   Democrat McKinney / Collin   Collin H 14 Jan 10, 1893 - Jan 8, 1895 23rd   Democrat McKinney / Collin   Collin H 28 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd   Democrat McKinney / Collin   Collin (1) 26th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/10/1899, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. (2) 25th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected 5/21/1897, Regular Session; and 1st C.S. Senate Journal. (3) 25th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/12/1897, p. 1. Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 43rd Legislature, 1st C.S. - Memorial Service for Barry Miller, 10/10/1933, pp. 305-306. Listed as a Senator from the 26th or 27th Legislatures "among those who are now dead." Senate Journal. Biographical Sketches Portrait and biographical sketch, J.R. Gough, pp. 276-279. Relatives: James Rowland Gough - nephew; James F. Rowland - uncle. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892. Other Resources James Rowland Gough, news articles under Gough surname and Gough-Hughston House in McKinney. Senator J.R. Gough, interment in Pecan Grove Cemetery, Collin County (from Cemeteries of Collin County, Texas, by Joy Gough). Collin County, Texas History. Gough-Hughston House News Articles Pecan Grove Cemetery James Roland Gough, birth date 12/31/1860, death date 11/19/1916. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976. J.R. Gough (1860-1916), portrait, burial in Pecan Grove Cemetery, McKinney, Collin County. Find a Grave. Photographs Photograph. J.R. Gough, 26th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. J.R. Gough, 25th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. J.R. Gough, 24th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. J.R. Gough, 23rd Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. J.R. Gough, 23rd Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 25th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 26th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 22nd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, north wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board. 23rd session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, east wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board. 24th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board. 23rd session composite photo of House members by Hill (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 23rd session composite photo of House members by Journeay (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission. 24th session composite photo of House members by Hill (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission. Committee Informationtop 26th R.S. - 1899 Agricultural Affairs   Constitutional Amendments   Finance   Internal Improvements   Public Lands and Land Office   Rules (Chair)  State Affairs (Chair)  State Asylums   25th R.S. - 1897 Constitutional Amendments   Education   Engrossing (Chair)  Judicial Districts   Judiciary No. 1   Judiciary No. 2   Mining and Irrigation   Privileges and Election   Public Buildings and Grounds   Public Lands   Rules   State Asylums (Chair)  24th R.S. - 1895 Bribery in Frost-O'Neal Case, Investigate   Engrossed Bills   Judicial Districts   Judiciary No. 2 (Chair)  Rules   23rd R.S. - 1893 Education (Chair)  Finance   Impeachment of Land Commissioner   Investigate Certain Charges Against Land Commissioner   Judiciary No. 1   Rules   State Institutions of Learning, Joint Committee on   Stock and Stockraising   22nd R.S. - 1891 Commerce and Manufactures   Federal Relations   Mining and Minerals   Representation and Apportionment on Senatorial and Representative Districts

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