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Atkins Jefferson McLemore

Atkins Jefferson McLemore

Male 1857 - 1929  (71 years)

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  • Name Atkins Jefferson McLemore  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Birth 13 Mar 1857  Spring Hill, Maury County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
    Gender Male 
    Death 4 Mar 1929  Laredo, Webb County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Burial Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas Find all individuals with events at this location  [6
    Notes 
    • Author of "Indianola and Other Poems" (1904).

      McLEMORE, Atkins Jefferson, a Representative from Texas; born on a farm near Spring Hill, Maury County, Tenn., March 13, 1857; educated in the rural schools and by private tutors; moved to Texas in 1878; employed as a cowboy, printer, and newspaper reporter, and later as a miner in Colorado and Mexico; returned to Texas and settled in San Antonio and engaged principally in newspaper work; moved to Corpus Christi, Tex., in 1889, to Austin in 1895, and to Houston in 1911, where he engaged in the newspaper publishing business; member of the Texas house of representatives of 1892-1896; member of the board of aldermen of Austin, Tex., 1896-1898; secretary of the Democratic State executive committee 1900-1904; elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-fourth and Sixty-fifth Congresses (March 4, 1915-March 3, 1919); was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1918 to the Sixty-sixth Congress; resumed the newspaper publishing business in Hebronville, Jim Hogg County, Tex., and resided in Laredo, Tex.; was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1928; died in Laredo, Tex., March 4, 1929; interment in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Tex.

      McDonald, Timothy G. "The Gore-McLemore Resolutions: Democratic Revolt Against Wilson's Submarine Policy." Historian 26 (November 1963): 50-74.

      Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present


      Kerrville Times
      Thursday, March 7, 1929
      (Courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore)

      Jeff McLemore, Pioneer Newspaperman, Is Dead

      Jeff McLemore, 71, native of Spring Hill, Tenn., who came to Texas in 1878, was one of the pioneer newspaperman of this state, and a politician of note, died in his quarters in the Robert E. Lee Hotel in Laredo Monday morning following a six-day illness from pneumonia. His wife and daughter and a number of friends were at his bedside.

      The 1930 Webb County, Texas census lists a widowed Mary W. McLemore (indexed as Mclemone), born 1886, Female, White, born in England, and working as a Journalist in Laredo. She was a naturalized citizen, and immigrated from England in 1886. She was a lodger in the Robert E. Lee hotel on San Bernardo, Avenue in Laredo.

      Name Jeff Mc Lemore
      Event Type Death
      Event Date 04 Mar 1929
      Event Place Laredo, Webb, Texas, United States
      Gender Male
      Marital Status Married
      Birth Date 13 Mar 1858
      Birthplace Springhill, Texas
      Father's Name Robt Anderson Mc Lemore
      Mother's Name Mary Hargood Mc Ewen
      Certificate Number 18585
      GS Film number 2114764
      Digital Folder Number 005145255
      Image Number 02680

      Citing this Record:
      "Texas, Deaths, 1890-1976," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K3QK-VKT : accessed 19 Oct 2014), Jeff Mc Lemore, 04 Mar 1929; citing certificate number 18585, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2114764.
    • (Research):
      Census Listings:

      1880 Census
      Colorado, Gunnison County, Ruby City
      Enumerated 19 Jun 1880
      Page 19 SD --- ED 57 Stamped 167
      145
      Anderson, Hilder W M 31 Widowed Saloon Keeper Sweden Sweden Sweden
      McLemore, Jeff W M 23 Bookkeeper Tenn Tenn Tenn
      (plus seven other single men, apparently all boarding in the saloon/home together)

      1900 Census
      Texas, Travis County Precint 3, Austin City
      Enumerated 5 Jun 1900
      SD 10 ED 98 Sheet 6A Ward 10 Page Stamped 184
      Congress Ave
      5027-100-110
      McLemore, Jeff Head W M Marc 1857 43 S Tenn Tenn Tenn Painting Co
      Zimpperman, Walter BoarderW M Jan 1874 26 S Germany Germany Germany 1898 2 Na Bookkeeper/Bank

      1910 Census
      Texas, Nueces County, JP 1, Corpus Christi
      Enumerated 22 Apr 1910
      SD 15 ED 98 Sheet 5B
      405-101-111
      Jenkins, Emory E Head M W 54 S Ind Ky Mass Capitalist
      McLemore, Jeff Lodger M W 50 S Tenn Tenn Tenn Editor Paper
      Otis, Arlington B Lodger M W 22 S Ind Ind Ohio Journalist Newspaper

      1920 Census
      not located
    Person ID I26107  Strong Family Tree
    Last Modified 31 Aug 2015 

    Father Robert Anderson "Andrew" Jefferson McLemore,   b. 28 Jul 1823, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 2 May 1891, Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 67 years) 
    Mother Mary Harwood McEwen,   b. Abt 1831, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Aft 1860, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 30 years) 
    Marriage 23 Dec 1851  Williamson County, Tennessee Find all individuals with events at this location  [7
    • Williamson County marriages, courtesy of Tom Heseltine

      Robert A. McLEMORE -- Mary McEWEN 23 Dec 1851
      Robert A. McLEMORE -- Ann F. KINNARD 16 Jul 1868

      Didn't locate a third marriage yet.

    Family ID F11282  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Event Map
    Link to Google MapsDeath - 4 Mar 1929 - Laredo, Webb County, Texas Link to Google Earth
    Link to Google MapsBurial - - Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County, Texas Link to Google Earth
     = Link to Google Earth 

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    McLemore, Atkins Jefferson
    McLemore, Atkins Jefferson
    b. 1857 Tennessee d. 1929 Texas
    Served in the Texas House, District 87, as a Democrat from Corpus Christi/Nueces County from Jan. 10 1893-Jan. 24, 1897

  • Sources 
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