Roy Alvin Baldwin
| Roy Alvin Baldwin | |
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Baldwin legislative portrait
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| Texas State Representative for District 122 (Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum counties) | |
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In office May 20, 1920 – January 9, 1923 |
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| Preceded by | William H. Bledsoe |
| Succeeded by | Dewey Young |
| Texas State Representative for District 119 (Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Gaines, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum counties) | |
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In office January 9, 1923 – January 13, 1925 |
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| Preceded by | John Quaid |
| Succeeded by | James K. Wester |
| Personal details | |
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January 2, 1885 Half Rock, Mercer County Missouri, USA |
| Died | October 2, 1940 (aged 55) Slaton, Lubbock County, Texas |
| Resting place | Englewood Cemetery in Slaton, Texas |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Spouse(s) | Maude Hollinger Baldwin |
| Children |
Garriott Thompson "Zeke" Baldwin |
| Parents | Marion A. and Lucinda Ellen Garriott Baldwin |
| Residence | Slaton, Texas |
| Alma mater | Missing |
| Occupation | Lawyer |
Garriott Thompson "Zeke" Baldwin
Roy Alvin Baldwin (January 2, 1886 – October 2, 1940) was a Democrat from Slaton in Lubbock County, Texas, who represented District 119 in the Texas House of Representatives from 1923 to 1925. In this capacity he was co-author of the legislation establishing Texas Tech University in nearby Lubbock. His district encompassed fourteen counties in West Texas. In his first House tenure from 1920 to 1923, he represented the geographically similar District 122.
Baldwin was born in the since historical community of Half Rock in Mercer County in northern Missouri. His mother, the former Lucinda Ellen Garriott (1863-1890), a native of Keokuk County, Iowa, died in Half Rock in 1890, when Roy was five years of age. Marion Baldwin remarried (name of second spouse missing) and relocated to Washington County near Portland in northwestern Oregon, where he died shortly thereafter at the age of about forty-four, when Roy was seventeen. Baldwin married the former Maude Hollinger (1886-1986), who lived another forty-six years after her husband's passing. The couple had two children, Garriott Thompson "Zeke" Baldwin (1916-1944) and Elizabeth Maude Baldwin Baker (1920-1977).
On August 30, 1919, Baldwin won a special election for House District 122 to succeed his fellow Democrat, William H. Bledsoe of Lubbock, who was elected to the Texas State Senate. Baldwin did not take his oath of office until May 20, 1920.
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