Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Robert Teague Milner

Full Name: Robert Teague Milner, Sr.
Other surnames: Miller
Birth date: June 21, 1851
Death date: July 30, 1923

Terms of Service

House, 22nd ⁽²⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat
Speaker
House, 21st ⁽¹⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/8/1889 - 1/13/1891
Democrat
House, 20th ⁽³⁾ ⁽⁴⁾ Legislature
1/11/1887 - 1/8/1889
Democrat

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) "Nomination by the Democrats of his district," p. 156. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
(4) Robert T. Miller, Henderson. Roster of senators and representatives of the 20th Legislature with their postoffice address, Austin Weekly Statesman, "Governmental," 12/30/1886, p. 6. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
(5) Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Photograph. Robert Teague Milner, Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2006
Photograph. R.T. Milner, State Preservation Board
Photograph. R.T. Milner, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Biographical sketch, Robert Teague Milner, pp. 136-137. "Milner was elected to the House of Representatives for the Twentieth, Twenty-first, and Twenty-second Legislatures, 1887-1892. He was chairman of the Committee on Education and was the author of the law requiring the teaching of Texas history in the public schools." A History of Rusk County, Texas 1961.
Census of 1900 - Robert T. Milner, Henderson, Rusk County, age 49, born June 1851 in Alabama, editor Henderson Times. FamilySearch .
Robert Teague Milner, birth date 6/22/1852 in Center, Cherokee County, Alabama; death date 7/30/1923 in Henderson, Rusk County, Texas; editorial writer and teacher. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Robert Teague Milner (1851-1923), burial in Old Henderson City Cemetery, Henderson, Rusk County. Find a Grave .
MILNER, ROBERT TEAGUE (1851-1923). Handbook of Texas Online .
Biographical sketch, Robert Teague Milner, pp. 156-157. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 20th Legislature 1887.
Biographical sketch, Robert Teague Milner, pp. 371-372. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature 1889.
Portrait and biographical sketch, Robert Teague Milner, Speaker of the House of Representatives, p. 231. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature 1892.
Obituary, Colonel Robert Teague Milner, "Former President of A. & M. College Dies at Henderson: Was Member of State Legislature Three Consecutive Sessions," The Houston Post, 7/31/1923, p. 1. Born 6/22/1851 in Cherokee County, Alabama. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Rosalind Langston, "The Life of Colonel R.T. Milner." Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, No. 4, April 1941, pp. 407-451, and Vol. 45, No. 1, July 1941, pp. 24-73, crediting Texas State Historical Association. Born 6/21/1851 in Cherokee County, Alabama. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) . April 1941 July 1941
31st Speaker of the House of Representatives: Robert Teague Milner. Photo and biographical sketch. Born 6/21/1851 in Cherokee County, Alabama. Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-2016 2016.
Included in biographical sketch of son, Robert T. Milner, Jr., Volume V, p. 46. Texas Under Many Flags 1930.