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Culberson, Charles A. (Charles Allen), 1855-1925

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Personal name headingCulberson, Charles A. (Charles Allen), 1855-1925
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See alsoTexas. Governor (1895-1899 : Culberson)
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Birth date18550610
Death date19250319
Place of birthDadeville (Ala.)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
AffiliationVirginia Military Institute
University of Virginia
Texas. Attorney-General's Office
United States. Congress. Senate
Democratic Party (U.S.)
Profession or occupationLegislators
Governors
Attorneys general
Lawyers
Found inNUCMC data from American Jewish Archives for Correspondence between Woodrow Wilson and Charles A. Culberson concerning Louis Brandeis, 1916 May 5 (Charles A. Culberson; correspondent)
LC database, Mar. 26, 2010 (hdg.: Culberson, Charles A., 1855-; hdg.: Culberson, Charles Allen, 1855-1925; hdg.: Culberson, Charles A. (Charles Allen), 1855-1925)
Wikipedia WWW, Mar. 26, 2010 (Charles Allen Culberson (June 10, 1855-Mar. 19, 1925) was an American political figure and Democrat who served as the 21st Governor of Texas from 1895-1899, and as a United States Senator from Texas from 1899-1923)
Biographical directory of the U.S. Congress website, viewed October 28, 2014 (Culberson, Charles Allen, (son of David Browning Culberson), a Senator from Texas; born in Dadeville, Tallapoosa County, Ala., June 10, 1855; moved to Texas with his parents, who settled first in Gilmer and later in Jefferson; attended the common schools and graduated from the Virginia Military Institute at Lexington in 1874; studied law at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1876 and 1877; admitted to the bar in 1877 and commenced practice in Jefferson, Tex.; moved to Dallas, Tex., in 1887; attorney general of Texas 1890-1894; Governor of Texas 1894-1898; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate January 25, 1899; reelected in 1905, 1911, and again in 1916, and served from March 4, 1899, to March 3, 1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922; Democratic caucus chairman 1907-1909; chairman, Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library (Sixty-first Congress), Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Judiciary (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixty-sixth Congress); lived in retirement until his death in Washington, D.C. March 19, 1925; interment in East Oakwood Cemetery, Fort Worth, Tex. )
American state governors, 1776-1976, 1982 volume 3, pages 436-437 (Texas; Culberson, Charles Allen (1895-1899))
National Governors Association website, viewed October 28, 2014 (Texas Governor Charles Allen Culberson; office dates Jan. 15, 1895-Jan. 17, 1899)
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