Theatrical plays.
A partial listing of non-biographical literary works on Texas governors and political figures.
Stage plays on Texas governors or major Texas political figures
President and Governor George W. Bush
You’re Welcome America. A Final Night with George W. Bush
Broadway solo comedy by Will Ferrell
A comic solo Broadway show with Ferrell portraying George W. Bush near the end of his presidency.
The Strangerer
Political satire / surreal debate play
A surreal reimagining of the first 2004 Bush-Kerry presidential debate, with Bush, John Kerry, and Jim Lehrer as central figures.
Gov. Ann Richards
Ann
One-woman play by Holland Taylor
The best-known theatrical portrait of a Texas governor. It is a full-length solo drama about Richards, written and originally performed by Taylor, and played Broadway in 2013.
Call Me Ann: The Ann Richards Rock Opera
Rock opera / ensemble piece
A 2019 Houston Fringe/MATCH work presenting Richards’s life through a feminist punk-rock lens, including her Waco roots, treasurer years, 1990 gubernatorial victory, and 1994 defeat. Mark White, George W. Bush, Molly Ivins, and Karl Rove appear as figures in the piece.
Lyndon B. Johnson
All the Way
Play by Robert Schenkkan
Major LBJ drama covering Johnson’s first year as president after Kennedy’s assassination and the struggle over the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
The Great Society
Play by Robert Schenkkan
Sequel to All the Way, covering Johnson’s second-term years, roughly 1965–1968, with the Great Society, Vietnam, civil rights conflict, and Johnson’s decision not to seek reelection.
Lyndon
One-man play by James Prideaux
Earlier solo/near-solo LBJ stage work focused on Johnson during the Vietnam era; Jack Klugman starred on stage, and Laurence Luckinbill later performed the screen/stage version.
Reflections of a Tough Texan: The Legacy of Lyndon Johnson
One-man play by Pierce Wallace
A more recent solo LBJ play, performed at Santa Monica Playhouse and elsewhere, centered on Johnson’s dramatic rise and fall through civil rights and Vietnam.
LBJ / Gov. Coke Stevenson
Box Thirteen / 1948 Senate race
Stage play by Jack Westin
Based on the Box 13 scandal in the 1948 Democratic Senate runoff between Johnson and former Gov. Coke Stevenson. It had a world premiere at College of the Mainland Community Theatre in 1999; production records identify Johnson as the central character.
Amon G. Carter Sr.
AMON! The Ultimate Texan
One-man show by Dave Lieber
Amon Carter was not a governor, but he was a major Fort Worth civic, newspaper, business, and political power figure. This solo show has been staged in North Texas, including 2026 Theater Arlington performances. It will be shown in Dallas for the first time in June 2026.
President, Senator and Governor Sam Houston
The Lion of Texas: A Conversation with Sam Houston
Sam Houston One-man show
A solo theatrical portrait of Sam Houston, who was president of the Republic of Texas, U.S. senator, and governor of Texas. It has been performed by a modern namesake, Sam Houston.
The King of Texas
Sam Houston Play by Beth Webster
A Texas historical stage comedy/drama involving Sam Houston and French diplomat Alphonse Dubois de Saligny; performed at Ground Floor Theatre in Austin and associated with FronteraFest.
Cong. Barbara Jordan
Voice of Good Hope Barbara Jordan
Play by Kristine Thatcher
A biographical play about Texas congresswoman Barbara Jordan, first produced at Victory Gardens Theater and nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award.
E Pluribus Unum: Barbara Jordan — One Voice
One-woman play by Deborah Hamilton-Lynne
Austin stage work about Jordan; notably, the first act includes the period when Jordan sat as governor of Texas for a day.
Other theatrical presentations of interest:
Five Presidents: George H. W. Bush and other presidents
Play by Rick Cleveland
Imagines a private conversation among Ford, Carter, Reagan, George H. W. Bush, and Clinton before Nixon’s funeral. Bush was not a Texas governor, but he was a major Texas political figure.
Empires Fall George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev
Stage play by Robert Lawson, with Marlin Fitzwater associated
Publication references as a stage play about Bush and Gorbachev, but no clear production history.
The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Gov. Dolph Briscoe context
Musical by Larry L. King, Peter Masterson, and Carol Hall
Not a governor biography, but a major Texas political-media musical based on the Chicken Ranch scandal. It includes a fictionalized governor and is tied to the real Briscoe-era shutdown controversy.
Bonnie & Clyde: The Musical
Gov. Miriam “Ma” Ferguson appears in some productions
Musical by Frank Wildhorn, Don Black, Ivan Menchell
Not about Ferguson, but some productions include Ma Ferguson as a character because of her connection to the Bonnie and Clyde era.
Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins
One-woman play by Margaret Engel and Allison Engel A solo play about Texas political columnist Molly Ivins, whose career was deeply tied to Texas politics and politicians, including Ann Richards, Bob Bullock, and the Texas Legislature.
Books and Biographies.
A partial listing of research materials by governor.
ALLRED, JAMES BURR V
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY:
James V Allred Papers, Special Collections, University of Houston.
James V Allred Papers, Texas State Archives, Austin.
James V Allred Scrapbook, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
William Eugene Atkinson, James V Allred: A Political Biography, 1899-1935 (Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Christian University, 1978; rpt., Ann Arbor: University Microfilms, 1982).
Dallas Morning News, June 19, 1993.
Houston Post, September 25, 1959.
George N. Manning, Public Services of James V Allred (M.A. thesis, Texas Technological College, 1950).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Who's Who in America, 1948.
BELL, PETER HANSBROUGH
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Sam Houston Dixon and Louis Wiltz Kemp, The Heroes of San Jacinto (Houston: Anson Jones, 1932).
Norman Kittrell, Governors Who Have Been and Other Public Men of Texas (Houston: Dealy-Adey-Elgin, 1921).
Notes and Fragments, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, April 1910.
CAMPBELL, THOMAS MITCHELL
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Thomas Mitchell Campbell Letters and Papers, Texas State Archives, Austin.
Thomas Mitchell Campbell Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Ross Phares, The Governors of Texas (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1976).
Janet Schmelzer, "Thomas M. Campbell, Progressive Governor of Texas," Red River Valley Historical Review 3 (Fall 1978).
CLARK, EDWARD
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Edward C. Clark Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
James T. DeShields, They Sat in High Places: The Presidents and Governors of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1940).
Tinsie Larison, "Edward Clark," in Ten Texans in Gray, ed. W. C. Nunn (Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1968).
Ralph A. Wooster, "Texas," in The Confederate Governors, ed. W. Buck Yearns (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985).
COKE, RICHARD
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Merle Mears Duncan, "The Death of Senator Coke," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 63 (January 1960).
Governors' Messages: Coke to Ross (Inclusive), 1874-1891 (Austin: Archives and History Department, Texas State Library, 1916).
Norman Kittrell, Governors Who Have Been and Other Public Men of Texas (Houston: Dealy-Adey-Elgin, 1921).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
COLQUITT, OSCAR BRANCH
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Oscar Branch Colquitt Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
James T. DeShields, They Sat in High Places: The Presidents and Governors of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1940).
Lewis L. Gould, Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992).
George P. Huckaby, Oscar Branch Colquitt: A Political Biography (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1946).
Norman Kittrell, Governors Who Have Been and Other Public Men of Texas (Houston: Dealy-Adey-Elgin, 1921).
Ross Phares, The Governors of Texas (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1976).
CONNALLY, JOHN BOWDEN, JR.
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson (New York: Knopf, 1982-).
John Connally, with Mickey Herskowitz, In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey (New York: Hyperion, 1993).
D. B. Hardeman and Donald C. Bacon, Rayburn: A Biography (Austin: Texas Monthly Press, 1987).
Lyndon Baines Johnson, The Vantage Point: Perspectives of the Presidency, 1963-1969 (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1971).
Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream (New York: Harper and Row, 1976).
William Manchester, The Death of a President (New York: Harper and Row, 1967).
Merle Miller, Lyndon: An Oral Biography (New York: Putnam, 1980).
Richard M. Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978).
James Reston, Jr., The Lone Star: The Life of John Connally (New York: Harper and Row, 1989).
CULBERSON, CHARLES ALLEN
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Lewis L. Gould, Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992).
James William Madden, Charles Allen Culberson (Austin: Gammel's Bookstore, 1929).
Charles Seymour and Edward M. House, The Intimate Papers of Colonel House (4 vols., Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1926).
Robert Lancaster Wagner, The Gubernatorial Career of Charles Allen Culberson (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1954).
DANIEL, MARION PRICE, SR.
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Dallas Morning News, August 26, 1988.
Price Daniel Papers, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center, Liberty, Texas.
Liberty Vindicator, August 28, 1988.
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature (Austin: Texas Legislative Council, 1991).
Texas Supreme Court, Memorial Service for the Honorable Price Daniel, May 22, 1989 (Austin, 1989).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
DAVIS, EDMUND JACKSON
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Ronald N. Gray, Edmund J. Davis: Radical Republican and Reconstruction Governor of Texas (Ph.D. dissertation, Texas Tech University, 1976).
William C. Nunn, Texas Under the Carpetbaggers (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1962).
Charles W. Ramsdell, Reconstruction in Texas (New York: Columbia University Press, 1910; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1970).
FERGUSON, JAMES EDWARD
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Norman D. Brown, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984).
James T. DeShields, They Sat in High Places: The Presidents and Governors of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1940).
James Edward Ferguson Collection, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Lewis L. Gould, Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992).
W. V. Howerton, ed., Facts on Ferguson: A Review of the Impeachment and a Reply to Charges Made by Ex-Governor Ferguson (Austin, 1918).
Norman Kittrell, Governors Who Have Been and Other Public Men of Texas (Houston: Dealy-Adey-Elgin, 1921).
Ouida Ferguson Nalle, The Fergusons of Texas, or "Two Governors for the Price of One": A Biography of James Edward Ferguson and His Wife (San Antonio: Naylor, 1946).
Ross Phares, The Governors of Texas (Gretna, Louisiana: Pelican, 1976).
Bruce Rutherford, The Impeachment of Jim Ferguson (Austin: Eakin Press, 1983).
FERGUSON, MIRIAM AMANDA WALLACE [MA]
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Norman D. Brown, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984).
James Edward Ferguson Collection, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Ouida Ferguson Nalle, The Fergusons of Texas, or "Two Governors for the Price of One": A Biography of James Edward Ferguson and His Wife (San Antonio: Naylor, 1946).
Notable American Women: A Biographical Dictionary (4 vols., Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 1971-80).
Women of Texas (Waco: Texian Press, 1972).
HAMILTON, ANDREW JACKSON
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Andrew Jackson Hamilton Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Carl H. Moneyhon, Republicanism in Reconstruction Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
John L. Waller, Colossal Hamilton of Texas (El Paso: Texas Western Press, 1968).
HENDERSON, JAMES PINCKNEY
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Dictionary of American Biography.
James Pinckney Henderson Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Elizabeth Yates Morris, James Pinckney Henderson (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1931).
F. B. Sexton, "J. Pinckney Henderson," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 1 (January 1898).
Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Robert Glenn Winchester, James Pinckney Henderson (San Antonio: Naylor, 1971).
HENDERSON, JAMES WILSON
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Presiding Officers of the Texas Legislature, 1846-1982 (Austin: Texas Legislative Council, 1982).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
HOBBY, WILLIAM PETTUS
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
James Anthony Clark and Weldon Hart, The Tactful Texan: A Biography of Governor Will Hobby (New York: Random House, 1958).
Lewis L. Gould, Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson Era (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1973; rpt., Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1992).
HOGG, JAMES STEPHEN
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Robert C. Cotner, James Stephen Hogg: A Biography (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1959).
Dictionary of American Biography.
James Stephen Hogg Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin. William McGraw, Professional Politicians (Washington: Imperial Press, 1940).
C. W. Raines, ed., Speeches and State Papers of James Stephen Hogg (Austin: State Printing Company, 1905).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Paul Louis Wakefield, James Stephen Hogg: A Biography, 1851-1906 (Austin: Texas Heritage Foundation, 1951).
HORTON, ALBERT CLINTON
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Matthew Ellenberger, "Illuminating the Lesser Lights: Notes on the Life of Albert Clinton Horton," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 88 (April 1985).
Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).
Annie Lee Williams, A History of Wharton County (Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones, 1964).
Ralph A. Wooster, "Early Texas Politics: The Henderson Administration," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 73 (October 1969).
HOUSTON, SAMUEL
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Donald Braider, Solitary Star: A Biography of Sam Houston (New York: Putnam, 1974).
Randolph B. Campbell, Sam Houston and the American Southwest (New York: HarperCollins, 1993).
Marshall De Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston (New York: Random House, 1993).
Llerena B. Friend, Sam Houston: The Great Designer (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969).
Jack Gregory and Rennard Strickland, Sam Houston with the Cherokees, 1829-1833 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1976).
Clifford Hopewell, Sam Houston: Man of Destiny (Austin: Eakin Press, 1987).
Lenoir Hunt, "My Master:" The Inside Story of Sam Houston and His Time, by Jeff Hamilton as told to Lenoir Hunt (Dallas: Manfred Van Nort, 1940).
Marquis James, The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1929; rpts., New York: Paperback Library, 1967, Atlanta: Mockingbird Books, 1977).
C. Edwards Lester, Sam Houston and His Republic (New York: Burgess, Stringer, 1846; rpt., New York: Books for Libraries Press, 1972).
Madge Thornall Roberts, Star of Destiny: The Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston (Denton: University of North Texas Press, 1993).
William Seale, Sam Houston's Wife: A Biography of Margaret Lea Houston (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1970).
Frank X. Tolbert, The Day of San Jacinto (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1959; 2d ed., Austin: Pemberton Press, 1969).
Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).
John Hoyt Williams, Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texas (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1993).
Marion Karl Wisehart, Sam Houston (Washington: Luce, 1962).
HUBBARD, RICHARD BENNETT, JR.
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Jean Sutherlin Duncan, Richard Bennett Hubbard: Texas Politician and Diplomat (Ph.D. dissertation, Texas A&M University, 1972).
Martha Anne Turner, Richard Bennett Hubbard (Austin: Shoal Creek, 1979).
IRELAND, JOHN
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Harbert Davenport, History of the Supreme Court of the State of Texas (Austin: Southern Law Book Publishers, 1917).
Galveston News, March 16, 1896.
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
JESTER, BEAUFORD HALBERT
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Seymour V. Connor, ed., Saga of Texas series (6 vols., Austin: Steck-Vaughn, 1965).
Current Biography Yearbook, 1948.
George N. Green, The Establishment in Texas Politics (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1979).
Alva Taylor, History and Photographs of Corsicana and Navarro County (Corsicana, Texas, 1959; rev. ed., Navarro County History and Photographs, Corsicana, 1962).
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
LANHAM, SAMUEL WILLIS TUCKER
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: : History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Tarrant and Parker Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1895).
Frank W. Johnson, A History of Texas and Texans (5 vols., ed. E. C. Barker and E. W. Winkler [Chicago and New York: American Historical Society, 1914; rpt. 1916]).
Sidney S. Johnson, Texans Who Wore the Gray (Tyler, Texas, 1907).
Virgil Madison Rogers, Family History: Rogers-McCravy-Lanham (Strasburg, Virginia, 1975).
LUBBOCK, FRANCIS RICHARD
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Nancy Head Bowen, A Political Labyrinth: Texas in the Civil War-Questions in Continuity (Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1974).
Walter L. Buenger, Secession and the Union in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984).
Robert L. Kerby, Kirby Smith's Confederacy: The Trans-Mississippi South, 1863-1865 (New York: Columbia University Press, 1972).
Francis Richard Lubbock Papers, Texas State Archives, Austin.
Francis Richard Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones, 1900; rpt., Austin: Pemberton Press, 1968).
Fredericka Meiners, The Texas Governorship, 1861-1865: Biography of an Office (Ph.D. dissertation, Rice University, 1974).
William C. Nunn, ed., Ten Texans in Gray (Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1968).
Charles W. Ramsdell, "The Texas State Military Board, 1862-1865," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 27 (April 1924).
Jon L. Wakelyn, Biographical Dictionary of the Confederacy (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1977).
Ralph A. Wooster, "Texas," in The Confederate Governors, ed. W. Buck Yearns (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985).
MOODY, DANIEL JAMES, JR.
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Norman D. Brown, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984).
Governors' Records, Texas State Archives, Austin.
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
MURRAH, PENDLETON
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Benny R. Deuson, "Pendleton Murrah," in Ten Texans in Gray, ed. W. C. Nunn (Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1968).
Pendleton Murrah File, Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University.
Ralph A. Wooster, "Texas," in The Confederate Governors, ed. W. Buck Yearns (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1985).
NEFF, PAT MORRIS
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Norman D. Brown, Hood, Bonnet, and Little Brown Jug: Texas Politics, 1921-1928 (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1984).
Neff Collection, Texas Collection, Baylor University.
O'DANIEL, WILBERT LEE [PAPPY]
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Current Biography, 1947.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram, May 12, 1969.
Frank Goodwyn, Lone Star Land (New York: Knopf, 1955).
George N. Green, The Establishment in Texas Politics (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1979).
Seth Shepard McKay, W. Lee O'Daniel and Texas Politics, 1938-1942 (Lubbock: Texas Tech Press, 1944).
Homer P. Rainey, The Tower and the Dome: A Free University Versus Political Control (Boulder, Colorado: Pruett, 1971).
PEASE, ELISHA MARSHALL
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
James T. DeShields, They Sat in High Places: The Presidents and Governors of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1940).
Roger Allen Griffin, Connecticut Yankee in Texas: A Biography of Elisha Marshall Pease (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1973).
B. H. Miller, Elisha Marshall Pease: A Biography (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1927).
Pease-Graham-Niles Family Papers, Austin Public Library.
ROBERTS, ORAN MILO
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Lelia Bailey, The Life and Public Career of O. M. Roberts, 1815-1883 (Ph.D. dissertation, University of Texas, 1932).
Alwyn Barr, Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876-1906 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1971).
Ford Dixon, "Oran Milo Roberts," in Ten More Texans in Gray, ed. W. C. Nunn (Hillsboro, Texas: Hill Junior College Press, 1980).
Harry Warren, "Col. William G. Cooke," Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association 9 (October 1905).
ROSS, LAWRENCE SULLIVAN [SUL]
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Judith Ann Benner, Sul Ross: Soldier, Statesman, Educator (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 1983).
Ross Family Papers, Texas Collection, Baylor University.
RUNNELS, HARDIN RICHARD
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Jean and Price Daniel and Dorothy Blodgett, The Texas Governor's Mansion (Austin: Texas State Library, 1984).
Frances Richard Lubbock, Six Decades in Texas (Austin: Ben C. Jones, 1900; rpt., Austin: Pemberton, 1968).
Hardin Richard Runnels Records, Texas State Archives, Austin.
SAYERS, JOSEPH DRAPER
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Austin American, May 16, 1929.
Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1928.
William Henry Korges, Bastrop County, Texas: Historical and Educational Development (M.A. thesis, University of Texas, 1933).
Who Was Who in America, Vol. 2.
SHIVERS, ROBERT ALLAN
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Austin American-Statesman, January 15, 1985.
Current Biography, 1951.
George N. Green, The Establishment in Texas Politics (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1979).
D. B. Hardeman, "Shivers of Texas: A Tragedy in Three Acts," Harper's, November 1956.
Sam Kinch and Stuart Long, Allan Shivers: The Pied Piper of Texas Politics (Austin: Shoal Creek Publishers, 1973).
STERLING, ROSS SHAW
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Houston Post, March 26, 1949.
Henrietta M. Larson and Kenneth Wiggins Porter, History of Humble Oil and Refining Company (New York: Harper, 1959).
Ross Shaw Sterling Papers, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
Who's Who in America (1934-35).
STEVENSON, COKE ROBERT
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Robert A. Caro, The Years of Lyndon Johnson: The Path to Power (New York: Knopf, 1982).
George N. Green, The Establishment in Texas Politics (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood, 1979).
Booth Mooney, Mister Texas: The Story of Coke Stevenson (Dallas: Texas Printing, 1947).
Charles E. Simons, "Log Cabin Statesman," Texas Parade, March 1942.
Coke Stevenson Papers, Texas State Library, Austin.
Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.
STOCKDALE, FLETCHER SUMMERFIELD
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
J. William Davis, There Shall Also Be a Lieutenant Governor (Institute of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, 1967).
James T. DeShields, They Sat in High Places: The Presidents and Governors of Texas (San Antonio: Naylor, 1940).
Seth Shepard McKay, Debates in the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1875 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1930).
D. W. Ogletree, "Establishing the Texas Court of Appeals, 1875-1876," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 47 (July 1943).
S. G. Reed, A History of the Texas Railroads (Houston: St. Clair, 1941; rpt., New York: Arno, 1981).
Anna Irene Sandbo, "The First Session of the Secession Convention of Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 18 (October 1914).
E. W. Winkler, ed., Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas (Austin, 1912).
E. W. Winkler, Platforms of Political Parties in Texas (Austin: University of Texas, 1916).
THROCKMORTON, JAMES WEBB
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
Claude Elliott, Leathercoat: The Life History of a Texas Patriot (San Antonio, 1938).
WOOD, GEORGE TYLER
HANDBOOK OF TEXAS BIBLIOGRAPHY: :
S. H. German, "Governor George Thomas Wood," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 20 (January 1917).
Louella Styles Vincent, "Governor George Thomas Wood," Southwestern Historical Quarterly 20 (January 1917).
Ralph A. Wooster, "Early Texas Politics: The Wood Administration," Texana 8 (1970).