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{{Infobox officeholder
|name= Roy Alvin Baldwin
|image=Roy Alvin Baldwin of TX.jpg
|office= [[Texas]] State Representative<br> for District 122 (Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum counties)
|term_start=May 20, 1920
|term_end=January 9, 1923
|preceded=William H. Bledsoe
|succeeded=Dewey Young
|office2=Texas State Representative<br> for District 119 (Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Gaines, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum counties)
| term_start2=January 9, 1923
| term_end2=January 13, 1925
| preceded2=John Quaid
| succeeded2=James K. Wester
| birth_date=January 2, 1885
| birth_place=Half Rock, Mercer County<br>[[Missouri]], USA
| death_place=Slaton, [[Lubbock|Lubbock County]], Texas
| residence=Slaton, Texas
| death_date=October 2, 1940 (aged 55)
| resting_place=Englewood Cemetery in Slaton, Texas
| spouse=Maude Hollinger Baldwin
| children=Garriott Thompson "Zeke" Baldwin<br>
Elizabeth Maude Baldwin Baker<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Marion A. and Lucinda Ellen Garriott Baldwin
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| occupation=[[Attorney]]}}
'''Roy Alvin Baldwin''' (January 2, 1886 – October 2, 1940) was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] from [[rural]] Slaton, south of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], who represented District 119 in the state legislature 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.<ref name=lrl>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2236&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=Alvin~gender=~last=Baldwin~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=
|title=Roy Alvin|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8519530|title=Lucinda Ellen Garriott|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref> Marion Baldwin remarried (name of second spouse missing) and relocated to Washington County near [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] in northwestern [[Oregon]], where he died shortly thereafter at the age of about forty-four, when Roy was seventeen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43031513|title=Marion A. Baldwin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref> 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).<ref name=findagrave/>
==Political life==
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 state Senate. Baldwin did not take his oath of office until May 20, 1920.<ref name=lrl/>
In 1923, as barely a third term member of the legislature, Baldwin joined with Senator Bledsoe to support 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, Texas|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 select] in Kendall County barely northwest of [[San Antonio]]. Vernon, located 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.<ref name=wtha/>
Though the site selection committee traveled to all the communities seeking to become the location of the new college, but the fix was in from the start. To win the competition, Lubbock was allowed to amend its initial application to account for eighty more acres so that it could meet the two thousand acres required in the legislation for the chosen location. In time, Texas Tech, originally '''Texas Technological College,''' helped to make Lubbock the largest city of West Texas, excluding [[El Paso]] in the far southwestern corner of the state. Representative [[Richard M. Chitwood]], the chairman of the House Education Committee, thought his city of Sweetwater in Nolan County far better suited for the new institution as the "central" location of West Texas. When Lubbock was chosen, Chitwood was given a patronage consolation as business manager of the new institution.<ref name=wtha>Zach Dowdle, "In the Land of Sandstorms and Sand: Locating Texas Technological College in 1923," ''West Texas Historical Review,'' Vol. LXL (2014), pp. 75-102.</ref>
Chitwood was the business manager of Texas Tech for only fifteen months; he died in November 1926 in a [[Dallas]] hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Chitwood&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScnty=2696&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=15513681&df=all&|title=Richard Mortimer Chitwood|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
Baldwin died in 1940 at the age of fifty-five; he is interred at Englewood Cemetery in Slaton. His grave marker reads: "Jurist-Author-Legislator; Co-Author of Bill Creating Texas Technological College".<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10515728|title=Roy Alvin Baldwin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Roy Alvin}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Missouri]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
|name= Roy Alvin Baldwin
|image=Roy Alvin Baldwin of TX.jpg
|office= [[Texas]] State Representative<br> for District 122 (Andrews, Borden, Briscoe, Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Floyd, Gaines, Garza, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum counties)
|term_start=May 20, 1920
|term_end=January 9, 1923
|preceded=William H. Bledsoe
|succeeded=Dewey Young
|office2=Texas State Representative<br> for District 119 (Cochran, Crosby, Dawson, Gaines, Hockley, Lubbock, Lynn, Terry, and Yoakum counties)
| term_start2=January 9, 1923
| term_end2=January 13, 1925
| preceded2=John Quaid
| succeeded2=James K. Wester
| birth_date=January 2, 1885
| birth_place=Half Rock, Mercer County<br>[[Missouri]], USA
| death_place=Slaton, [[Lubbock|Lubbock County]], Texas
| residence=Slaton, Texas
| death_date=October 2, 1940 (aged 55)
| resting_place=Englewood Cemetery in Slaton, Texas
| spouse=Maude Hollinger Baldwin
| children=Garriott Thompson "Zeke" Baldwin<br>
Elizabeth Maude Baldwin Baker<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
Marion A. and Lucinda Ellen Garriott Baldwin
| party=[[Democratic Party|Democratic]]
| occupation=[[Attorney]]}}
'''Roy Alvin Baldwin''' (January 2, 1886 – October 2, 1940) was a [[Democratic Party|Democrat]] from [[rural]] Slaton, south of [[Lubbock]], [[Texas]], who represented District 119 in the state legislature 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.<ref name=lrl>{{cite web|url=http://www.lrl.state.tx.us/legeLeaders/members/memberDisplay.cfm?memberID=2236&searchparams=chamber=~city=~countyID=0~RcountyID=~district=~first=Alvin~gender=~last=Baldwin~leaderNote=~leg=~party=~roleDesc=~Committee=
|title=Roy Alvin|publisher=Texas Legislative Reference Library|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
==Background==
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8519530|title=Lucinda Ellen Garriott|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref> Marion Baldwin remarried (name of second spouse missing) and relocated to Washington County near [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]] in northwestern [[Oregon]], where he died shortly thereafter at the age of about forty-four, when Roy was seventeen.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=43031513|title=Marion A. Baldwin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 21, 2020}}</ref> 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).<ref name=findagrave/>
==Political life==
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 state Senate. Baldwin did not take his oath of office until May 20, 1920.<ref name=lrl/>
In 1923, as barely a third term member of the legislature, Baldwin joined with Senator Bledsoe to support 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, Texas|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 select] in Kendall County barely northwest of [[San Antonio]]. Vernon, located 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.<ref name=wtha/>
Though the site selection committee traveled to all the communities seeking to become the location of the new college, but the fix was in from the start. To win the competition, Lubbock was allowed to amend its initial application to account for eighty more acres so that it could meet the two thousand acres required in the legislation for the chosen location. In time, Texas Tech, originally '''Texas Technological College,''' helped to make Lubbock the largest city of West Texas, excluding [[El Paso]] in the far southwestern corner of the state. Representative [[Richard M. Chitwood]], the chairman of the House Education Committee, thought his city of Sweetwater in Nolan County far better suited for the new institution as the "central" location of West Texas. When Lubbock was chosen, Chitwood was given a patronage consolation as business manager of the new institution.<ref name=wtha>Zach Dowdle, "In the Land of Sandstorms and Sand: Locating Texas Technological College in 1923," ''West Texas Historical Review,'' Vol. LXL (2014), pp. 75-102.</ref>
Chitwood was the business manager of Texas Tech for only fifteen months; he died in November 1926 in a [[Dallas]] hotel.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=Chitwood&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=46&GScnty=2696&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GRid=15513681&df=all&|title=Richard Mortimer Chitwood|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
Baldwin died in 1940 at the age of fifty-five; he is interred at Englewood Cemetery in Slaton. His grave marker reads: "Jurist-Author-Legislator; Co-Author of Bill Creating Texas Technological College".<ref name=findagrave>{{cite web|url=http://findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=10515728|title=Roy Alvin Baldwin|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=October 20, 2020}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldwin, Roy Alvin}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Missouri]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:Democrats]]