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Anson Rainey (1848-1922) —
of Waxahachie, Ellis
County, Tex.; Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in El Dorado, Union
County, Ark., March 1,
1848.
Democrat. Served in the Confederate Army during the Civil War;
lawyer; member of Texas
state senate, 1881-82; district judge in Texas, 1885-93; Judge,
Texas Court of Appeals, 1893.
Disciples
of Christ. Member, Freemasons.
Died in Hinsdale, DuPage
County, Ill., August
6, 1922 (age 74 years, 158
days).
Interment at Waxahachie
City Cemetery, Waxahachie, Tex.
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Robert Minter Rainey (1882-1971) —
also known as Robert M. Rainey —
of Atoka, Atoka
County, Okla.; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
County, Okla.
Born in Sherman, Grayson
County, Tex., September
29, 1882.
Lawyer; member of Oklahoma
state house of representatives, 1907-08; district judge in
Oklahoma, 1909-15; justice of
Oklahoma state supreme court, 1917-20; chief
justice of Oklahoma state supreme court, 1920-21.
Methodist.
Member, Sigma
Alpha Epsilon; Freemasons;
Knights
Templar.
Died April 3,
1971 (age 88 years, 186
days).
Interment at Fairlawn
Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Okla.
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William Franklin Ramsey (1855-1922) —
also known as William F. Ramsey —
of Cleburne, Johnson
County, Tex.; Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex.
Born in Bell
County, Tex., October
25, 1855.
Democrat. Lawyer; banker;
candidate for Presidential Elector for Texas; Judge of
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, 1908-11; justice of
Texas state supreme court, 1911-12; candidate for Governor of
Texas, 1912; board chairman, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, 1916.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Knights
Templar; Shriners;
Elks.
Died in Dallas, Dallas
County, Tex., October
27, 1922 (age 67 years, 2
days).
Interment at Cleburne
Memorial Cemetery, Cleburne, Tex.
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Irma Lerma Rangel (1931-2003) —
also known as Irma Rangel —
of Kingsville, Kleberg
County, Tex.
Born in Kingsville, Kleberg
County, Tex., May 15,
1931.
Democrat. School
teacher; lawyer; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1977-2003 (49th District 1977-82,
37th District 1983-92, 35th District 1993-2002, 43rd District 2003);
died in office 2003.
Female.
Mexican
ancestry.
In 1976, was the first
Mexican-American woman elected to the Texas House.
Died, of brain
cancer, in Brackinridge Hospital,
March
18, 2003 (age 71 years, 307
days).
Interment at Texas
State Cemetery, Austin, Tex.
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John Ratcliffe (b. 1965) —
of Heath, Rockwall
County, Tex.
Born in Mt. Prospect, Cook
County, Ill., October
20, 1965.
Republican. Lawyer; mayor of Heath, Tex., 2004-12; U.S.
Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas, 2007-08; U.S.
Representative from Texas 4th District, 2015-.
Still living as of 2018.
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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn (1882-1961) —
also known as Sam Rayburn —
of Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex.
Born in Kingston, Roane
County, Tenn., January
6, 1882.
Democrat. Lawyer; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1907-13; Speaker of
the Texas State House of Representatives, 1911-13; U.S.
Representative from Texas 4th District, 1913-61; died in office
1961; Speaker of
the U.S. House, 1940-47, 1949-53, 1955-61; died in office 1961;
delegate to Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1936,
1940,
1944,
1948
(Permanent
Chair; chair, Committee
to Notify Presidential Nominee), 1956.
Died of cancer,
in Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex., November
16, 1961 (age 79 years, 314
days).
Interment at Willow
Wild Cemetery, Bonham, Tex.
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James Reily (1811-1863) —
of Texas.
Born in Hamilton, Butler
County, Ohio, July 3,
1811.
Lawyer; major in the Texas Army during the Texas War of
Independence; member of Texas
Republic House of Representatives, 1840-41; Texas Republic
Minister to the United States, 1841-42; member of Texas
state house of representatives, 1853-54; U.S. Consul in St. Petersburg, as of 1856; colonel in the Confederate Army
during the Civil War.
Presbyterian;
later Episcopalian.
Member, Freemasons.
Slaveowner.
Killed
in the Battle of Camp Bisland, on Bayou Teche, near Franklin, St. Mary
Parish, La., April
14, 1863 (age 51 years, 285
days).
Interment at Lexington
Cemetery, Lexington, Ky.
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Samuel Alexander Roberts (1809-1872) —
also known as Samuel A. Roberts —
of Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex.
Born in Putnam
County, Ga., February
13, 1809.
Whig. Classmate of Jefferson
Davis at the U.S. Military Academy; lawyer; law partner of
James
W. Throckmorton and Thomas
J. Brown; Texas
Republic Secretary of State, 1841; delegate to Whig National
Convention from Texas, 1852.
Died in Bonham, Fannin
County, Tex., August
18, 1872 (age 63 years, 187
days).
Interment at Inglish
Cemetery, Bonham, Tex.
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Relatives: Son
of Willis
Roberts and Asenath (Alexander) Roberts; married to Lucinda Mary
Reed. |
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Elijah Sterling Clack Robertson (1820-1879) —
of Salado, Bell
County, Tex.
Born in Giles
County, Tenn., August
23, 1820.
Democrat. Texas
Republic Postmaster General, 1839; lawyer; delegate
to Texas secession convention, 1861; delegate
to Texas state constitutional convention, 1875.
Methodist.
Died in Salado, Bell
County, Tex., October
8, 1879 (age 59 years, 46
days).
Interment a
private or family graveyard, Bell County, Tex.
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Clarence Robinson (b. 1875) —
of Tecumseh, Pottawatomie
County, Okla.
Born in De Leon, Comanche
County, Tex., December
11, 1875.
Democrat. School
teacher; superintendent
of schools; lawyer; Mayor, Tecumseh, Okla., 1917-18; Pottawatomie
County Probate Judge, 1919-22.
Presbyterian.
Member, Freemasons;
Odd
Fellows.
Burial location unknown.
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Relatives: Son
of M. V. Robinson and Maria L. (Williams) Robinson; married, November
28, 1916, to Irene Buzzard. |
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James W. Robinson (1790-1857) —
Born in Hamilton
County, Ind., 1790.
Lawyer; delegate
to Texas Consultation of 1835 from District of Nacogdoches, 1835;
Provisional
Governor of Texas, 1836; served in the Texas Army during the
Texas War of Independence.
Died in San Diego, San Diego
County, Calif., 1857
(age about
67 years).
Burial location unknown.
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Byron Giles Rogers (1900-1983) —
also known as Byron G. Rogers —
of Bent
County, Colo.; Denver,
Colo.
Born in Greenville, Hunt
County, Tex., August
1, 1900.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of Colorado
state house of representatives, 1931-35; Speaker of
the Colorado State House of Representatives, 1933; Colorado
state attorney general, 1936-40; Colorado
Democratic state chair, 1941-42; U.S.
Representative from Colorado 1st District, 1951-71; defeated,
1940.
Baptist.
Member, American
Legion; Disabled
American Veterans; Lions; Elks; Odd
Fellows; American Bar
Association; Phi
Alpha Delta; Freemasons;
Shriners.
Died in a hospital
in Denver,
Colo., December
31, 1983 (age 83 years, 152
days).
Interment at Mt.
Lindo Cemetery, Near Tiny Town, Jefferson County, Colo.
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Walter Edward Rogers (1908-2001) —
also known as Walter Rogers —
of Pampa, Gray
County, Tex.; Naples, Collier
County, Fla.
Born in Texarkana, Miller
County, Ark., July 19,
1908.
Democrat. Lawyer; U.S.
Representative from Texas 18th District, 1951-67; delegate to
Democratic National Convention from Texas, 1956
(alternate), 1960,
1964.
Member, American Bar
Association; Rotary;
Sigma
Phi Epsilon.
He was in the motorcade in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963 when
President John
F. Kennedy was assassinated.
Died, of a heart
attack, in a hospital
in Naples, Collier
County, Fla., May 31,
2001 (age 92 years, 316
days).
Burial location unknown.
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Samuel Irving Rosenman (1896-1973) —
also known as Samuel I. Rosenman —
of Manhattan, New York
County, N.Y.
Born in San Antonio, Bexar
County, Tex., February
13, 1896.
Democrat. Served in the U.S. Army during World War I; lawyer;
member of New York
state assembly from New York County 11th District, 1922-26; Justice of
New York Supreme Court 1st District, 1934-43; resigned 1943;
special counsel to presidents Franklin
Roosevelt and Harry
Truman, 1943-46.
Jewish.
Member, Phi
Beta Kappa; Delta
Sigma Rho.
Died in 1973
(age about
77 years).
Burial location unknown.
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