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|death_date=March 30, 1936 (aged 66)
|death_date=March 30, 1936 (aged 66)
|resting_place=Lubbock City Cemetery
|resting_place=Lubbock City Cemetery
|spouse=Married (name of spouse missing)<br>
|spouse=(1) Alice Eugenia Collins Bledsoe (married 1895-1915, died in childbirth)<br>
(2) Emma K. Boone Bledsoe
|childrenFrom first marriage:<br>
William Scott Bledsoe<br>
Alice Bledsoe Lee<br>
Lois Glenna Bledsoe<br>
'''From second marriage''':<br>
Willis Harrison Bledsoe
'''Parents''':<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Willis Scott and Susan Frances Harrison Bledsoe
Willis Scott and Susan Frances Harrison Bledsoe
From 1925 to 1927, in the 39th legislative session, Bledsoe was the Senate President pro tempore in the administration of Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (1875-1951), wife of former Governor Jim Ferguson. In 1927, Bledsoe was injured in an automobile accident. On retirement, he attributed the location of Texas Tech to the work of the citizens of the South Plains and Lubbock County.<ref name=findagrave/>
From 1925 to 1927, in the 39th legislative session, Bledsoe was the Senate President pro tempore in the administration of Governor Miriam Amanda Wallace Ferguson (1875-1951), wife of former Governor Jim Ferguson. In 1927, Bledsoe was injured in an automobile accident. On retirement, he attributed the location of Texas Tech to the work of the citizens of the South Plains and Lubbock County.<ref name=findagrave/>
Bledsoe died in the early spring of 1936 at the age of sixty-six. He is interred at Lubbock City Cemetery. ''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' voted Bledsoe the eighth most influential Lubbock resident.<ref name=findagrave/>
Bledsoe died in the early spring of 1936 at the age of sixty-six. He is interred at Lubbock City Cemetery. ''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal'' voted Bledsoe the eighth most influential Lubbock residents of the 20th century.<ref name=findagrave/>
==References==
==References==