Richard M. Chitwood
| Richard Mortimer Chitwood | |
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Chitwood legislative portrait
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| Texas State Representative for District 121 -- Fisher, Mitchell, and Nolan counties | |
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In office January 11, 1921 – January 9, 1923 |
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| Preceded by | John J. Ford |
| Succeeded by | Sam A. Bryant |
| Texas State Representative for District l17 -- Fisher, Mitchell, and Nolan counties | |
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In office January 9, 1923 – August 20, 1925 |
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| Preceded by | Walter F. Jones |
| Succeeded by | J. C. Hall |
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February 9, 1878 City missing, Alabama, USA |
| Died | November 21, 1926 (aged 48) Dallas, Texas |
| Resting place | Sweetwater Cemetery |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Parents | William Parker and Laura Lyon Chitwood |
| Residence |
Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, USA |
| Alma mater | Morgan Park Academy (Chicago) |
Sweetwater, Nolan County, Texas, USA
Richard Mortimer Chitwood (February 9, 1878 – November 21, 1926) was a Democrat from Sweetwater, Texas, who represented District 117 in the Texas House of Representatives from 1923 to 1925. His district encompassed Fisher, Mitchell, and Nolan counties in West Texas. In his first House term from 1921 to 1923, he represented the same counties as District 121.
A native of Alabama, Chitwood was a son of William Parker Chitwood and the former Laura Lyon. He was educated at Morgan Park Academy in the Morgan Park section of Chicago, Illinois.
In 1923, Chitwood, as a second term member of the legislature, was the chairman of the House Education Committee. That year State Senator William H. Bledsoe of Lubbock and Representative Roy Alvin Baldwin of Slaton in south Lubbock County pushed to passage Senate Bill 103, with a $1 million appropriation, to establish a four-year educational institution in West Texas with an emphasis on agricultural research. The school would be separate from Texas A&M University in College Station, which had a similar mission and whose leadership opposed the new institution. Bledsoe confessed to having drawn up the requirements for the host city to fit only Lubbock, which was selected over thirty-six other locations, including Chitwood's Sweetwater in Nolan County, San Angelo (before the existence of Angelo State University), Midland, Plainview, Brownwood, Lampasas, Big Spring, and even Boerne in Kendall County barely northwest of San Antonio. Vernon west of Wichita Falls claimed it should be selected because of its railroad access; at the time Vernon had more than one thousand more people than Lubbock.
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